Ineffficiency is not always a bad thing.
I am a Rehabilitation Worker / Practitioner. I work in a really nice residential home with a normally great staff and terrific clients. I would have to say that we are really good at what we do and could even be described as overefficient.
This is not always a good thing.
Due to our outstanding work, innovations, and successes with our clients we have been chosen to be inspected by our funders. The 8th is D-day for us.
The inspectors could either look at everything with a fine tooth comb or they could just pop by for a social visit and a brief tour. My supervisor is thinking that they will use the fine toothed comb and has prepared a “to do” list long enough to choke a blue whale.
It’s not like I don’t have enough to do already, I already had a massive to do list of my own… did I really want or need another one?
So here I am taking care of the pre-inspection shit while I should be doing my normal duties. I have twice as much to do and don’t see me getting any more time to do it. We are not richly funded so can’t even bring in extra staff to do the mundane things like cleaning so we are having to do this ourselves.
In addition to this we are having contractors coming in to do this or that and they have made a great fucking mess. I had to call yesterday and ask where the fuck they were because they were supposed to finishing things up.
So what has happened to the normally great staff? They have lost their freaking minds. Tempers are short and I think the next person who asks me “can you do this?” is going to lose a limb or two. Don’t I look busy enough to you?
Fast forward to Tuesday:
The inspector comes to the house and she will be really impressed by all the flowers in front, the climbing vines I planted, and the pristine yard and garden. When she enters the house she will notice just how clean everything is. She will likely notice the odour of fresh paint. The clients will be relaxing in their newly furnished livingroom or the rec room I finished this week. Our paperwork will be flawless and everything will be in it’s place.
She is going to think we are the best thing since the discovery of fire. She is going to report back that we don’t need additional funding since we are doing so well with what we have.
FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!