Whiners: They're Everywhere

Alternate title for this post: GI Nurses Stand All Day. It's Just What We Do.

There's a highly annoying subset of the human species I work with on a daily basis. They possess the standoffish demeanor that implies they were born just slightly better than everyone around them, and it rubs me the wrong way. They walk in to a room and, no matter that you were talking to the patient on the stretcher first, they merely shoulder-check you and interrupt to start their own conversation. When a procedure room needs to be turned over, you can find them in the break room--pushing stretchers and bringing patients in to the room is for the lower class, after all. And please, don't interrupt them while they're surfing the internet on their iPhones! They might be getting an important message on Facebook!

And, above all, they were meant to sit down all day. Their holy tushies need padding, didn't you know?

Yes. Yesterday I was informed 'providing a rolling stool for us is really, like, the standard'. As in, standard of care. Right up there with infection control and ensuring correct narcotic counts at the end of the day.

The conversation went something like this, right around 3 pm:

Her Royal Highness: Wow...I'm glad I just work here per diem! If I were going to work in this facility full-time, I'd really need a stool to sit on during the day! (She says, as she stretches her young, athletic, limber legs up to the top of a stretcher.)

Amy: (leaning over a patient, applying abdominal pressure for what feels like the 40th hour in a row) Hmmm. We all stand up in the procedure room. You get used to it after awhile.

(Implied tone: GET OVER YOURSELF.)

HRH: But it's just so hard, standing all day! 10 hours is a long time to stand on concrete!

Amy: Yes. You people seem to really struggle with that.

HRH: Well. You know. Providing a rolling stool for us is really the standard.

Biteyourtonguebiteyourtonguebiteyourtongue.

See, some people just aren't worth the sarcastic comebacks you have at the ready, you know? Because they just don't get it. They truly believe they came in to this world as God's gift to creation, and we can't require God's chosen few to stand around like the common people, now can we?

Because it's just so hard, you know? To STAND? All day?

Yeah. We know.