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MIND LOCK - Last Night I "Just Turned It Off"/Abandoned My Shift: What Now?


Posted: Apr 6, 2010

I signed on for my normal shift at Midnight and got immediately hit with an unknown hospital,  uknown dictator from outside my CCM's 'book of work.'  I couldn't understand the dictator who was a ESL, thick accent interspersed with serial "mumbles with thick accent."  Looked for an old report, put in all the correct information, even tried adjusting it several times -- came up with no old reports. 

At this point, mental incapacitation seemed to set in; I seemed to go into an "altered state of consciousness."  It felt like --- say your pet of 20 years died, and you cried for hours and hours --- how you feel after that --- you feel like you are floating in space.  Your body has some kind of chemical cascade reaction which sends you to "LaLa Land" -- for real.   You feel as though somebody slipped you a pill of some sort  --- surrounded you with a veil of cheeseclothe -- and nothing outside the cheeseclothe is real.  You float.  You feel totally detached from what we "foolishly" call "reality"  (hey man -- if this is reality --- I'll takea good ole psychotic hallucination any day of the week).

And then, I did the UNTHINKABLE THING.  I turned to my computer and I hit "BREAK."  I sent the mumbling Indian back to from"whence she came" and I signed off my shift.  I just stopped working.  DUH.     I just stopped.   

I must have hit some "kind of a wall."   I simply could NOT do it.

I wonder what the consequences of this will be, if any.  I wrote my CCM and told her I "couldn't do it, didn't know what to do, but there didn't seem to be much sense in sitting there and staring at the computer screen if I couldn't "do it."  

My brain felt like a computer that had been given too many sets of conflicting instructions at one time; and my brain did what my computer does in that case; it shut down.  Boy did that feel a lot better than 30 seconds earlier when it was franctically "searching for a solution where there is no good solution."

I must be at the end of my "so-called rope," because I feel like I'm losing the capacity to "care" -- which is very unlike me.  I'm an inveterate worrier, generally, and hyper-conscientious --- always trying to do my 'very best,' etc. etc. etc.

I don't even feel "badly" about having abandoned my shift.   It's totally weird -- it's so not me.

I wonder what kind of "warnings/expressions of opprobrium" I wll receive, if any.  Or will I just find "my posterior-side" out on the "pavement" (so to speak) and get to start picking through the outdoor trashcans for leftover bits of McDonald's burgers -- along with the other neighborhood castaways?"  

Oh well  -- I am so fundamentally BURNED OUT with this situation, I can't even CARE any more.    Am I bititer?   I don't know.  I feel too brain-dead to know.  Maybe I'm about to start laughing hysterically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I can certainly relate! - Usually pretty good

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I have one ESL dictator in particular from whom I blessedly only get maybe ten dictations a month. His dictations are usually no more than 45 seconds long, but I've never been able to finish one in less than ten minutes. And yes, there have been times when that all I could do was turn off and walk away and hope he was gone when I came back!

Ive had the same happen to me. Sometimes I just -sm - Twitter

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turn off the PC and go outside and do some gardening. Or go for a long walk. There have been times when I've simply called in "sick" and taken a few days off. There's truly nothing else we can do sometimes.

Strangely, there have never been any consequences to just walking off the job for a few days, other than even less pay than I already make. And yet I've gotten written warnings, threatening termination, for a supposedly misplaced semicolon.

Nothing That Happens Surprises Me - MT Idiot

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The complete lack of logic you describe doesn't surprise me. It is my opinion that they can't keep up with the "changes" and rules and regulations they impose. They can't keep a staff trained to change and keep up with QA rules and regulations fast enough. THere are gross inconsistencies EVERYWHERE. REMEMBER THE TONE FOR A CULTURE IS SET AT THE TOP. WHEN A LACK OF FORTHRIGHTNESS/ VERACITY (I fear to use direct language here any more at times) IS AT THE TOP OF A CULTURE --- IT PERVADES ALL LEVELS AND CREATES MIND-BENDING INCONSISTENCIES.

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