Day 520
As a general rule of thumb, I may partake in the age-old tradition of bitching about office process changes with my co-workers, but I will always attempt to be chill about said changes. Because frankly… At the end of the day, there’s nothing you can do when a change comes down from on high.
The act of bitching is really stress relief. Besides that, I understand why we do the changes that we do. I might not agree with the execution of that change, but 99% of the time, I understand why.
This is why it really stuck out to me, as I reached the end of my day (and half way through the week) to realize I was profoundly angry with the new database. Angry, because I realized, I had gotten competent at doing the task, but was not reaching old database levels of speed.
Because the database added ten fucking new things I had to click to complete said task.
I was incensed when I realized this, especially since I hadn’t really managed to complete a single full list of tasks. Sure, I did some of those tasks. I managed to call three different programs, but I never managed to complete the call list for any of those programs. At the time I realized how angry I was getting, I was simply closing files (aka discharging), and it was taking me ten minutes.
Eventually, I had to rethink how I was doing things. I couldn’t afford to write a nice letter to a doctor telling them why their client was being discharged, a simple fax cover sheet saying, they got discharged, here is why that was all I could afford. I had to revamp what the rest of my week is going to look like.
I am also probably going to bitch at management, there’s nothing they can do, but I do want either extra time off or be paid extra at this point.
