I seriously hate my job...

[Dory1988]

Not the Navy, I love the Navy. I knew being at a hospital would blow I just figured it would take some time before I wanted to kill someone. My military leadership in my chain of command is an E-4, I work for a civilian, every civilian I work with has been or is a spouse, and half of those wear their husband's rank like it's theirs. I'm over it. I don't know how I'll last 4 years here. Like I hate these people I'm so frustrated. They complain about the dumbest crap. It's always the enlisted people who aren't doing things good enough for them and those dingbats make over twice what I do. They're a waste of government money because half of them sleep while they're on shift anyway and our civilian supervisor is too nice to fire them.

ETA: This posted before I was done. I'm just frustrated I guess and I know that the people I worked with at a civilian hospital were equally frustrating but we were busier there. I didn't have time to think about it. I'm trying to focus on Navy career stuff but...ugh.

[amaristella]

I am sorry. Will you always be working in a hospital setting or might there be times when you are in a different type of setting? If so, would it help to look forward to those other times. I'm sure that atmosphere must be really demoralizing.

[audette]

Blargh. That sounds frustrating.

[Dory1988]

Unless I archive my NEC (respiratory specialty) which is near impossible for respiratory techs (we're so understaffed we get re-enlistment bonuses) I'll always be in a hospital. We get sea orders but they TAD us to the closest hospital as soon as we get there. The possibilities of glimmers of hope are deployments (humanitarian or war related), becoming an officer, or the fact that once these annoying civilians leave they'll fill the billets with active duty. Right now we're out numbered by our civilian RT's. At Balboa they just made a huge switch to where the majority are active duty and the rest of the facilities are supposed to follow suit. Civilians are more expensive, more of a headache, and active duty can do more because we're also Corpsmen. The contract workers really screw with things. You can't just say "we're going to start doing 'x' thing" because it's "not in the contract". Even though it would make everyone's lives easier. So there is light in the dark lol. I go hang out with the Corpsmen in the ICU as much as I can to get away from the stupidity.