“Session cancelled”, said the Activity Director because, “I can’t do my job because SHE won’t do hers”.
Of course the “she” referred to was Nurse Ratched and the job Nurse Ratched was failing to do was just more of the sabotage she’d visited upon previous Activity Directors, only this one is so angry, so upset that she wants to confront and fight back.
What Activity Director said Nurse Ratched did this time -- for the second time in a row, was to make herself unavailable when Activity Director showed up, per appointment, to pick up the budgeted money for class supplies.
The first time it happened, Activity Director took it as an honest mistake and bought supplies with her own money. This time, she saw it as deliberate and, unable to foot the bill, had planned to confront Nurse Ratched yesterday morning, only to find Nurse Ratched had taken off on vacation until next Tuesday.
No surprise to us. It’s what Nurse Ratched does … sabotage and not being around to be challenged on it.
“I’m just so upset. I’m going to report this to MY boss!” said Activity Director.
“Won’t do any good”, said I. “It’s not personal. It’s a pattern. She does it to everyone and thrives on conflict. Best thing you can do is to ignore her, pretend she doesn’t exist”.
Inasmuch as the Activity Director can’t do that – ignore her that is, we’re thinking she’ll be discouraged enough to quit -- which is exactly what Nurse Ratched wants.
Why?
None of us can figure the why out. It doesn't make sense, doesn't compute that her only motive might be she wants us to have zero activities, but that's the general consensus.
Time in the Community Room wasn’t a total loss. I’d offered all the DVDs that weren’t horror and they went quickly.
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| Only Half a Shelf Remaining |
Still up in the air is what to do with DVDs involving vampires, werewolves, serial killer Dexter -- who only kills bad people … those who escaped the judiciary system. For sure no one here would have wanted those DVDs, inasmuch as I’m surrounded by fuddy duddies who are afraid of scary movies, do not watch even the ever popular Walking Dead.
On tap for today?
I'm trying to talk myself into shopping for fabric to make summer shorts. Unable to find shorts last year that weren't too short, too tight or too loose, I was in leggings when everyone else was in shorts. Running into the same problem of too short, too tight, too loose and wearing leggings while everyone else around here is in comfortable for the weather clothing, I'm thinking I should stop being lazy, find a pattern and stop dressing winter all year round.
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