They Made Me Cry At Work.....
May. 30th, 2007 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteWhen I left my crazy-job a couple of years ago to start doing relief work, I promised myself I'd never cry at work again. My former boss had seemed to take a kind of twisted glee at haranguing me until I broke down, then tearing me apart for being immature and unprofessional enough to cry, and I had had enough of that. And I managed to keep my promise to myself, until yesterday.
Next week I start working full-time, so this week has been my goodbye tour. In particular, yesterday was my last day filling in at my other favorite clinic. I've been working there every other week or so for the past two years, and it feels a little bit like my home away from home, work-wise. The staff there are friends, several of the clients have seen me often enough to think of me as their 'other vet,' and I know the doctor there is both a good vet and a good person. While I was glad to be going there one last time, I wasn't looking forward to saying goodbye at the end of the day.
They threw me a party. Complete with cake and cards and hugs and presents and I never even got anything like that when I left any of my full-time jobs. And even with that, I would have been all right, if one of the long-time frequent-flier clients hadn't come in and found out, and insisted on hugging me and wishing me good luck and telling me that she'd miss me and that she had never felt safer and better cared for than when she knew that I was taking care of her pets, because she knew I cared.
I've been having a bit of a rough time lately, work-wise. A couple of cases have been kind of weighing on my mind, and I'll also admit that, while I'm looking forward to going full-time, it also scares the heck out of me in a lot of ways. Words can't express how much I needed this - both her words and their actions.
Every once in a while I get a reminder of how lucky I really am.
Next week I start working full-time, so this week has been my goodbye tour. In particular, yesterday was my last day filling in at my other favorite clinic. I've been working there every other week or so for the past two years, and it feels a little bit like my home away from home, work-wise. The staff there are friends, several of the clients have seen me often enough to think of me as their 'other vet,' and I know the doctor there is both a good vet and a good person. While I was glad to be going there one last time, I wasn't looking forward to saying goodbye at the end of the day.
They threw me a party. Complete with cake and cards and hugs and presents and I never even got anything like that when I left any of my full-time jobs. And even with that, I would have been all right, if one of the long-time frequent-flier clients hadn't come in and found out, and insisted on hugging me and wishing me good luck and telling me that she'd miss me and that she had never felt safer and better cared for than when she knew that I was taking care of her pets, because she knew I cared.
I've been having a bit of a rough time lately, work-wise. A couple of cases have been kind of weighing on my mind, and I'll also admit that, while I'm looking forward to going full-time, it also scares the heck out of me in a lot of ways. Words can't express how much I needed this - both her words and their actions.
Every once in a while I get a reminder of how lucky I really am.
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Date: 2007-05-30 03:06 pm (UTC)You should remind me where you're going to be so I can bring
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Date: 2007-05-30 03:06 pm (UTC)Very happy to see that it is. 8)
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