All is quiet on the western front. Yesterday and today have been pretty slow, which has been kinda nice change of pace. Now, if only we had a receptionist, I'd be really happy.
Not a heckuva lot to report about. I'm pretty dang tired though, so that may have something to do with my lack of writing. Plus methinks I may be getting a wee sick. No bueno.
I had an interesting thing happen to me yesterday. One of my kennel workers asked to see me in the boarding area. We get there and she manages to get out about 1 syllable before crying. And I don't mean just a few tears, I mean crying. She finally calms down and and starts talking coherently.
No let me back this up by giving you a little bit of background 411 on her. She is a 19 year old girl back at home from college. She decided that she wants to be a vet, so she thought that working at one would be fun. She started in mid-May, with the job of kennel girl. Her hours are from 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. She has already missed about 6 days of work this summer for assorted reasons. And our clinic is just starting up, so there haven't been too many dogs being boarded either. Basically, her job is a cinch.
Now back to my tale. She is upset because she has to...gasp...clean kennels. She has been doing this the entire time that she has been employed here, but for some unknown reason, it's not "fun" anymore. I told her that she needed to talk to our boss about her complaints, since I addressed as much as I possibly could.
She said that she had a cold, and wanted to leave an hour early yesterday, so I let her. I think that she was sick, but it also probably has a lot to do with her not wanting to work.
Then this morning, she calls in sick. Thankfully, we had another kennel girl that came in to cover for her.
I really don't understand why she was sooooo upset. It's not that the job changed any. It's still the same job.
As far as employees, we have 3 kennel workers. Assuming that Crying Girl is quitting as of today, that leaves us with 2. And 1 of them has to quit starting August 1st, leaving us with 1. He will have to quit starting about the 10th or so. In other words, we gonna be needin' some help soon.
Keep on keepin' on.
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