It's all so clear to me now....

HAH! To "HELP" clean out my office? NO...I had to do it all myself! I loaded up 7 huge banker's boxes, which weigh a TON when filled with files.

My entire body hurts today. I strained muscles in my neck down to my legs.
I had NO idea heavy lifting was in my job description.

Then, I filed a 2 foot tall stack of papers (which was literally one third of what was there to begin with). Into filing cabinets that have not been cleared out for years. There's no ROOM to file anything else, but yet, I was told to just do my best.

I tore one nail off (and I don't wear long nails), and practically sprained a wrist trying to get papers into files in those drawers

And today, those boxes were all still just sitting there. The two remaining piles of papers were still there.
My office isn't any cleaner, nor closer to being painted, and no one else has done anything to help clean it...and I was in orientation today ALL DAY.

Now I know how to clean up a "spill" (read puddle of piss or vomit), and how to handle an upset patient who doesn't want to eat his gruel, or who has found what is in his diaper.

The orientation was clearly mapped out for nurses and nurses aides, and not for business office personnel, but I had to attend anyway.

There was a unit on blood and body fluid. There was a unit on how to lift someone into a shower. There was a unit on handling "sharps." There was a unit on how they prepare thickened liquids for people who can't swallow anything more than that.

Many of the hours spent in orientation had nothing what so ever to do with what my job will be. Some of it was interesting, most of it was icky! *laughing*

But, since my office is IN the facility, I suppose I need to know some of that stuff in the event that I witness something.

AND, I had no idea that I will be expected to go into patient rooms if the call light is on.

I am not a patient care specialist, but I am not allowed to walk past a room where the call light is on.
I have to step in and find out what's wrong with the patient, and try to help, or get someone who can.

EEEK! I had NO idea that was part of the job description of Office Manager!!

The place is set up so that I will have to walk through wards to get to various offices inside of the building (it seems that, in this industry, we call our facility a "building" not a "home," not a "facility"), so the possibility DOES exist that I will have to do this.

If anyone SEES me walk past a call light, they can report me to my supervisor.

From what I have heard, that WILL happen, because the widely touted UN-official policy in the building is "EAT THE NEW."

Great.

One of the scary things was that, as I was introduced as the new business office manager to various people who work there, I was met with "oh...good luck, honey."

Great.

The head of HR told me to watch my back.

Grand.

Apparently, the majority of the staff in the admin offices, where I will be, is new. This is because the level of in fighting, back stabbing, and sabotage was sufficient to cause the entire department to basically implode.

There is one person left from that time, and when she was told that there was a new manager hired, she rolled her eyes, and expressed abject disgust.

Goodie!

SO---now I understand why they pursued me so aggressively. Why they offered me so much money. And why my name was already on the door when I got there yesterday.

They are DESPERATE.

I just hope I can take it!

Suffice to say, I am a little taken aback now, and a little worried. BUT, if I can stand up to any bullshit that gets tried on me, perhaps that will be good for me in more ways than one.