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Aristus

(66,294 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 04:19 PM Sep 2020

I don't know how much more of this I can take...

Yesterday morning before I got here, someone threw a rock through the glass door of the clinic and made off with a few computers. The clinic manager suspended shower and laundry service as a result. Now people are coming in screaming and shouting and calling everyone names. The drug-seekers are loudly demanding that I write them prescriptions for their favorite recreational pharmaceuticals, and stomping out angrily when I refuse. And my staff is on the ragged edge of a collective nervous breakdown.

I mean, shit like this happens every once in a while. But it's getting harder and harder to cope with, what with everything else going on in the world right now...

Can't wait until Friday. I'm going to step out for the evening, a little cannabis, a little ETOH. Just to get away for a while...

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I don't know how much more of this I can take... (Original Post) Aristus Sep 2020 OP
(( )) elleng Sep 2020 #1
... alwaysinasnit Sep 2020 #2
After the Friday night cannabis... pdxflyboy Sep 2020 #3
The Stoli is a warm-up. Aristus Sep 2020 #4
Breathe. Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #5
I'm so sorry. LiberalLoner Sep 2020 #6
Aristus.... Upthevibe Sep 2020 #7
From all your recent posts sounds like you're getting little satisfaction Fla Dem Sep 2020 #8
It will. It always does. Aristus Sep 2020 #9

Aristus

(66,294 posts)
4. The Stoli is a warm-up.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 04:23 PM
Sep 2020

I read that a couple of shots before cannabis will increase the effect.

My tipple is actually Absolut Pear. Good stuff...

Fla Dem

(23,590 posts)
8. From all your recent posts sounds like you're getting little satisfaction
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:05 PM
Sep 2020

from your job and more annoyance and frustration. Maybe time to step away and find something you can enjoy. I know, easier said then done.

But I know the feeling of being in a job where as soon as you get to work on Monday, all you want is for it to be Friday. It’s not a great place to be mentally.

Hope things turn around for you.

Aristus

(66,294 posts)
9. It will. It always does.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:43 PM
Sep 2020

Healthcare for the homeless is very stressful, but the rewards are worth it.

I worked in a mainstream clinic for a while, and visits with those patients are never as uplifting and life-affirming as my visits with my homeless patients.

It's just that the rest of the world used to more sane than it is now, helping me to cope with the bad times...

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