Wednesday night when I went into work, I was already in the process of losing my voice to laryngitis, but I worked anyway. I left a note, since I wasn’t sure I would see my boss the following morning, saying that I was requesting Thursday night off, due to my laryngitis. She said that would be fine, and that she would handle covering my shift. She called me later in the day, which I had Des answer the phone, because I barely had any voice at all, but I ended up talking to her anyway. She said that she had talked to a supervisor and neither one of them saw any reason why I should not work that night,and if I wanted the night off, I would have to find someone to cover my shift. I was not pleased!!!

Well think about it people. I work overnights…I am the only staff on duty…If something happened and I needed to make a phone call to my supervisor, or the police, how was I going to do that with NO VOICE????

My being there was a safety risk, and one that I was not willing to take. It is my responsibility to make sure those people are safe, and me having no voice, and being the only staff, was not safe!!

Plus, HOW can I find someone to cover my shift if I can’t talk on the phone??? My boss herself had to ask me to repeat things, because she couldn’t understand my squeakings and whisperings!!!!

In any case, I went up to talk to the big boss, who was not there, but in doing so, I found someone to cover my shift. I’m sure that did not please my boss at all, but she’ll get over it I suppose.

All I can think right now, is that I only have to hang on a few more months, with many prayers and a little luck anyway, and than I won’t have to deal with all the office politics and brown-nosing that goes on!!!