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TransformationChynaDoll · 04/11/2023 23:41

Here's my list of my first few jobs;
There was always too much rubbish so we had to take it turns to get in the bin and jump up and down on it so the lid would shut. We're talking about a huge industrial bin.
Ring people and ask them their BMI prior to appointments. For no real medical reason at all.
Arrive early and work unpaid for the first half hour so that the croissants would be cooked on time. No one ever questioned it.
Clean a big grease trap in a dishwasher which flooded the whole cafe knowing that the reason we had to mop for days straight was due to the company being too tight to pay someone to fix it.

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nocoolnamesleft · 04/11/2023 23:49

Do a single handed ward round, with all the more senior doctors in clinic, on my first day. Work the day, then the night, then the following day. Work from Saturday 9am to Monday 5pm. Not tell us until the end of the year that we were meant to finish at lunchtime when we'd been up all night. Expect me to come in an hour early every day to chase all results before the ward round. Expect me to stay an hour late every day, waiting for blood sugar results to come back from the lab, so I could prescribe the insulin for every diabetic in the hospital.

shardash · 04/11/2023 23:49

Muck out nine stables on my own.

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