I'd like to tell you guys a little bit about my job. I work the night shift at a hospital from 11:30pm to 7am. I work alone in an office I'm not allowed to leave, I answer the main telephone line for the hospital and I'm the goto guy for the various emergency situations, in which case I blare over the PA about it and get any professionals that need getting. There's also some other systems I monitor, but those are mostly extraneous and they don't come up often. I'm considered an important person that allows the hospital to function the way it does, but to me my job is just boring, lonely, and sedentary. So boring and lonely and sedentary in fact, that I've been given explicit permission from day 1 that I'm allowed to occupy the very frequent and long gaps where literally nothing is happening with whatever entertainment I can drum up myself, so long as it doesn't interfere with my duties. This usually took the form of my 3DS XL, and it has kept my sanity intact for it's entire tenure.
For more than 2 years now that last rule has held true, and I've never ignored my duties. However, my new boss, who has taken over very recently, has decided to completely revoke that rule, and now very explicitly expects me to just do nothing during the long breaks between action, implying in no few words that I'm apparently being paid to just be a lazy videogamer. I can agree that if my job found a way to make my time more productive, that'd be great, but they didn't do that, I've simply been given the expectation to tolerate what is now complete boredom and silence, in an empty room I'm not allowed to leave, for nearly 7.5 hours a night. and that failure to comply is grounds for termination.
I had a meeting my new boss, where I got to explain that this is wholly unreasonable. No human can do that, but she seems to think that I both can and should. I have my phone calls, but it's not nearly enough, there can by 20-60+ minute breaks inbetween each call, and each call lasts less than 30 seconds on average I'd say.
At nearly every stage of my life now, I simply can't escape from being called lazy. I feel this is the end of my job now, cause I'm apparently just a lazy shit to them, and while I perform every action my job requires, I'm still just a lazy shit. If they threaten to fire me, I'll just quit, because apparently they just don't want me around anymore.
And that's a shame, because I know for a fact that my team is already strained, with people constantly being switched around to fill up shifts, because the hospital is naturally a 24/7 operation and my office is no different, it's manned every minute of the day. I hate to leave them and make them even more disadvantaged than they already are, but it's increasingly looking inevitable.
Maybe it'd be healthy for me in the long run, since I adore the idea of normal sleeping hours again, and I could finally have both the energy and the time to pursue a different job. I'm so distraught and conflicted, this whole situation is upsetting and I'm not sure what to do.
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