....totally sucks. Honest to god, between work and the few hours that bookend it when Q is up and about, I felt like someone crushed me with an 18 wheeler. To be fair, Q is teething which added a degree of difficulty (thoroughly unneeded I might add) to the proceedings, but I definitely feel woefully inadequate to the task of being the sole parent while Tia was away at a conference in San Fran. Had she been gone more than three days, the house may well have looked like something out of one of those post apocalyptic zombie films. To all you single working parents, I salute you and observe you with the same kind of dumbstruck awe I reserve for well honed athletic achievements, in that I am impressed someone can do something that amazing, but it sure the hell isn't me. Thanks to Diane for helping me out one night and Tia for coming home at all :)
I got word today that the merger will be forestalled yet again. The original target was 7/1 and is now not until the beginning of September. The twist is that they are moving forward with GS along with the Hood and the Park at that time vs. GS going separately in January. As for my clinic and the Creek, the magic 8 ball is still fuzzy. It now appears likely that at least one person is going over from the clinic. I still have my own decision to make. To hedge bets, I put in my app for staying. I am still waiting to see what benefit leaving will bring. At least I should know something soon enough (assuming they furnish us with some useable information that is). More to come when I do.
Not much else to bring forth at the moment. I am quite tired of looking at car seats....who knew there were so very many to pick from. Gods. And so many pros and cons to each.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Information
I like information. Its why I obsessively research damn near everything. We call it 'falling down the rabbit hole' in our house and I have fallen down quite a few. I have read far more than any human being not in the their respective fields about laundry soap for Q's clothes and diapers, car seats, body soap, and mattresses among other things. Really, you name it, I have probably spent at least an hour researching it as it relates to Q. Or for electronics. Or cars. Or restaurants. Anyway, I think you get the idea.
So, it may come as no surprise that now that I find myself in a potentially weird position at work, I am uncomfortable with an overall lack of data to work from. I have read large swaths of the ONA contract, and have tried to extrapolate as much information as I could, but it isn't 'concrete' because I don't know if I will be considered an inpatient or outpatient nurse at OHSU (or if they do not distinguish, via varying pay rates, between then). From what I could gather, even at 80%, I would be getting nearly 2.5 weeks of additional paid time off (mostly through pay for holidays, which I do not get now, and about $1700 of employer contributions to retirement annually. All told, it could be a net benefit (gross not take home) of approximately $5500. Not too shabby. But, as we do not receive our offer letters until the 24th, it is not a certainty. Plus, they haven't suggested exactly what the pay will be, just that it will be 'comparable.' Plus, I don't know the work hours. Plus, I need to learn chemo.....and soon.
The reason this is a problem is that today they posted my current position at EH. I have to apply for it by the 15th. Simple math tells me that is 9 days before the other job offer is presented to me. Unlike the possibility of moving over, staying at EH is a dead certainty. It is what I have done for years. Essentially work by my damn self. I wont go into the pros and cons (I am still tallying them mentally), but I know there are intangible benefits to staying somewhere you are a known quality. But, if I apply, do I take myself out of the running to so much as hear about the other job? And, if I do opt to pass, does my job transfer 'as is' (24 hours a week vs. 32)? So many more questions than that really, but those two are prominent. I wrote my boss to ask her what her thoughts were on the subject. More to come when I hear. And more to come in general.....what a mess.
So, it may come as no surprise that now that I find myself in a potentially weird position at work, I am uncomfortable with an overall lack of data to work from. I have read large swaths of the ONA contract, and have tried to extrapolate as much information as I could, but it isn't 'concrete' because I don't know if I will be considered an inpatient or outpatient nurse at OHSU (or if they do not distinguish, via varying pay rates, between then). From what I could gather, even at 80%, I would be getting nearly 2.5 weeks of additional paid time off (mostly through pay for holidays, which I do not get now, and about $1700 of employer contributions to retirement annually. All told, it could be a net benefit (gross not take home) of approximately $5500. Not too shabby. But, as we do not receive our offer letters until the 24th, it is not a certainty. Plus, they haven't suggested exactly what the pay will be, just that it will be 'comparable.' Plus, I don't know the work hours. Plus, I need to learn chemo.....and soon.
The reason this is a problem is that today they posted my current position at EH. I have to apply for it by the 15th. Simple math tells me that is 9 days before the other job offer is presented to me. Unlike the possibility of moving over, staying at EH is a dead certainty. It is what I have done for years. Essentially work by my damn self. I wont go into the pros and cons (I am still tallying them mentally), but I know there are intangible benefits to staying somewhere you are a known quality. But, if I apply, do I take myself out of the running to so much as hear about the other job? And, if I do opt to pass, does my job transfer 'as is' (24 hours a week vs. 32)? So many more questions than that really, but those two are prominent. I wrote my boss to ask her what her thoughts were on the subject. More to come when I hear. And more to come in general.....what a mess.
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