Gordon Brown and and something else. ...

We will briefly cover something else first....my husband's brother died yesterday...we were told..I have that to contend with this week. His health was not the best, but he was for an short time there looking like he'd pull through it all perhaps, I as of yet don't know all the details...but am getting long distance calls from Missouri as it is this morning. Busy week ahead. 

Now for Gordon Brown....I am reading that in London on Sunday was an release of the book of "The End of the Party"...by Journalist Andrew Rawnsley... which describes Gordon Brown as having an temper that was abusive and angry for the most part, and his staff working for him asked for intervention. Books were never written on mudane circumstances you know. I thought this man's job was coming to an close anyway, maybe he needs some rest...the world is not easy to contend with these days of everyone working hard to "set you up" to lose your job so they can have it.  By that I mean the dirty tricks, such as prono sites being sent to people where bosses can find them on their computers and release them from work for it, and they know next to nothing about this prono"set-up"...unitl they get called up to defend themselves, which they can hardly do, once its there to be seen on the computer. This article about Gordon Brown says that in one passage of this book he grabs an secretary from her chair, when she typed to slowly...that he flew into rages where he had an chair that was dotted with marks where he stabbed it with an pen in an rage. I just could not think of not responding to this all...and I readily will tell you I'm not in England, and I don't know first hand what this is about...but having been an past surpervisor, I find if hard it would not of been easier to simply let the secretary "go"...knowing labor laws like we have them these days over here, rather then displaying anger. I thought I'd relate an incident where I worked one time for some reflection about "temper". 

Our adminsitartor was an woman that demanded the best out of people, perhaps because she had worked in an miltary medical team, where knowing your job and doing it was paramount to saving lives at one time...most of us found her fair minded though and good at her job...she held her BA, her masters, and was working on her Doctorate degree when I worked for her.. It's not hard to run an business on the upswing with everything going well. As you can see by the admission of people today...things are not going so well, the public is often these days being told behind scenes things were critical. We had an critcial moment on our job....as we would later on find to be implanted with an deadly germ bug, as an "labor union" would soon be trying to take over the place...the last thing they wanted was for everyone to be "getting along" in an crisis...one they had made to throw off the real issue at hand, being them silently sneaking through the back door so as to say. But people were sick..dying to tell you the truth. Ambulances were at the door taking the sickess ones to hospitals, we'd had one man yanked his cathater out of himself, and admisnistrator an the director of nurses were called to an pool of blood..to save his life on the spot...which they did...unitl outside help arrived.  Pateints were puking their heads off with this flu bug, personnel were dropping out sick also, we coudn't count on them to show up. I had already put the laundry into an state of "emergency" isolation procedures...as so had the nursing staff with the patients and their relatives being refused vistiing rights until the epidemic cleared up. It was chaos. Pure Chaos everywhere. it was straining everyone's job performance. The nurses aides started using more linen then our machinery could handle hourly. I had asked the adminsitrator to come back to the laundry ....so we could talk about releasing the storage linens as I knew my budget would be over-balanced if I did. We had very controlled budgets to deal with daily...not pure panimonium. She of all people used her "cool" amoung most the people in not losing it times of trouble..an sign of an good nurse in action. I was always told, you do your job and the falling apart, and the crying afterwards, but it could be the life of someone to panic as an nurse. Or for that matter of fact, an supervisor... so I had..when she walked in..stacks of clean laundry I was getting ready to take out on the floor already folded. She came in with an small group of other people, most staffing on her heels demanding her attention, which she couldn't handle but one person at an time...all gaggling at her, like "news" journalists on an hot story of the day. She was able to push the others out the door long enough to ask me what I wanted...as I was not someone that bothered her much, unless I needed to talk...so she knew it was important to be called by me. She looked like she was being put through absoulte hell by everyone else...I asked her...is it "OK"if I release storage linen, we can't keep up with the linens they are using, and she about that time just "snapped".....she picked up an large stack of laundry and threw it across the wall, sending the others into an mode of near screaming as they scattered...and yelled, YES..Isn't that your job anyway?...and stomped out the door. I had never seen her like that before. That night before leaving I went to her office, and I closed the door and we talked for an while. I told her I released the laundry but it would be making my department budget over money wise that month in doing so...and that's why  I called her to tell her of it BEFORE I did it. It wasn't that I didn't know what my job was..as it was, I understood she'd be repsonsible to her "higher ups" later on for my doing it. She apologized to me for her temper..and I asked her what everyone was doing around her, as normally it was only the supervisors she dealt with in company problems for the most part. As we had an "chain of command' in the place we were to follow. She said that was the problem, because of sick personnel, many of them didn't know whom to report to...she was there ready to listen to them so they took the advantage in ways...I asked her if she thought of her number one thing...write it in an note and leave it in her front mail box? ..she said the problem was they needed an immediate answer...and then she asked me something...Am I so strict you don't feel you can do your job? I told her "no", but that "insecurity" often makes people want "adoration" of an type in their job performance .. this was an case of "budget" on my end. Maybe you need to make your nurse's aide, when they stand alone without their superiors, feel like they can carry on without them...as they have the abilty to do so?.... to my surprise she announced an "Nurse's aide meeting" to review with everyone on the floor, who took care of what...and what their jobs were of their own accord....without their superiors.... and to remind them of the chain of command...in dealing with emergency situations...how to get them to the people they needed to answer questions immediately...without coming to her, which was thier last resort...though she told me before I left the office that they would of never been there if they didnt' know what to do to begin with on thier own....I smiled, and said, yes, but the door out can be an great motivator..on your way out.. if you make an mistake "thinking on your own" also. She said, I suspose so, but do you think I'm so strict that I'd fire someone whom had worked for me for years on end...I'm more loyal to my fellow workers then that I hope. I looked at her and I said, I acknowledge you are.... I'll try to keep the budget as low as I can until we can get over this phase, and I sure hope its soon...why don't you take the weekend off...you look like you could use it. She smiled. I left. Later on she trusted me so much, she put all her personel compnay business in my storage room and I was the only to have the key and was told not to open it to even the director of nursing without her knowing about it first. Maybe she knew there were infiltrators in the place...it turned out to be an floor nurse and her maintence man husband. Whom left after the union thing failed, and he told me as long as I didnt' an union I'd always be an "beer" person, not an wine person...and I looked at him and I said, I don't drink beer much, it makes me sick... and hardly wine..I'd never make an good "wino" either...but then again, I don't murder 17 year old girls, barely mor ethen children with "flu bugs" either....and walked away. By then the supervisors had an meeting with the state health biologist's that traced the entry of the "flu bug" pretty much back to him.

I wanted to tell you this story, so you can see both sides of people before you evaluate them as good or bad. No one needs to be an "bully" amoung those he works with...but not stepping in when needed and not knowing your boundry lines/your job amoung/with others..can be an nasty problem. One that can cost an company or an person thier postion in the world.  Remember it is not the good times that test the fortitude of an company...its during times of stress. It's then when people need people more then any time else...that are exemplar in helping performance. I'd like to know why Gordon Brown lets people "get under his skin", maybe he has an lousy staff to begin with that makes him resort to anger trying to cope with them...esp if this is an on-going thing. I see an real lack of communication going on here between them. Maybe he needs the week-end off also?

I am sorry I took so long to post this little message...Ha, quite the opposite I'd say....it's long...but for those that know me...this is Shirley K. Lawson that posted the above message...I thought maybe someone might fill me on if this all, or is someone wanting to write an book for fame and fortune perhaps?

It was more than an hour of typing Shirley and the avatar doesn't show because it timed out. Chris and/or Sarah will have to put it right for you (the avatar that is).

Now, what were you saying? Lol

Hey, I'm not telling you now..it took me to long the first time around.... I will assume that everyone in England hates Gordon Brown these days...it just made me think there's often two sides to every story...is why I bothered writing that long post...its my "Americanism" you know...give everyone an chance sort of.  I guess everyone hates us these days also...like our money, whatever else they find we can do for them, but that's about it...other then that we are the corrupt "western side" of the earth to others.  It's making us think at times these days also.

Shirley says>>>I guess everyone hates us these days also...like our money, whatever else they find we can do for them, but that's about it...

I actually think you are very wrong there Shirley, for once! Lol

And I did trawl through your posts above, didn't get to bed until 3 am! Lol

Well, I guess I'm just "touchy" with the brother in-law passing on...he was one of those that had worked in middle-managment for about 30 years losing the home he had made for his wife and kids eons ago because he could not keep up with today's times and expenses over here. I dont' know if we will make it or not in the future ourselves. We needed drastic medical coverage reform, and I mean less taken out of our pockets, not more...that is not what happned here recently at all. I think we get so sick an tired of people we put into office in doing something to help us, they can't seem to see beyond thier own peer group, that for many has it all these days over others. 

Gordon Brown and something else?

What's the difference between Gordon Brown and a bucket of dung?

The bucket.

LOL, Bob.

Shirley, my condolences on the passing of your brother in law.