I promise you, Charnel House Reviews is nowhere near dead! Despite an absence of several months, I have returned to bring you honest reviews on everything HORROR. For those of you wondering where I’ve been – it’s all been work related.
For over a year I’ve been a temp with a local healthcare company. Myself and several other temps have been working to move a local children’s hospital. It went in stages – first were the outpatient clinic moves. We moved them to two floors of a building in what’s called the “medical corridor”. Basically my company is creating a centralized area with special hospitals and clinics so it’s like one-stop shopping. I work with the hardware installation team, setting up computers and the peripherals (printers, scanners, etc.)
The clinic moves were smooth and quick, compared to the hospital! The deadline for the hospital was November 10, 2017. Up until that date I worked 6 days a week, often more than 10 hours a day. As crazy as it sounds, other support departments like Environmental Services, Plant Operations, and Clinical Engineering worked as much (if not more) than my team! Electrical wires don’t install themselves, in the same way that patient rooms aren’t sterilized until a team goes through and cleans them.
All in all it was grueling, exhausting, and sometimes unnoticed work. (People don’t always realize how much support services do – I know I certainly knew only a drop in the bucket of what the other services did until working with them.) Along the way I met some really amazing people, and we pulled it off in ways we hadn’t even expected, given the obstacles we encountered along the way.
In many ways I’m still recuperating from the exhaustion. But knowing we did it for the kids makes all the difference!
The hospital is up and running, we’ve passed our critical support period, and things are settling in nicely. I’m getting back to my hobbies and trying to get ready for Christmas. The 29th is going to be my last day with the company, unless I am hired on permanently. I am one of 6 applicants, and bossman says he’ll let us know next week. Fingers crossed!
