New Hire Process

So today's process included filling out a stack of paperwork from A-Z. I've forgotten how much paperwork goes into this process. There were a group of 5 today for the new hire process and 2 (moi included) of us were for the OTR positions. The others were there for nursing, tech, and an administration position. After filling out all the different agreement and acknowledgment forms, etc., etc...oh yes and the direct deposit form (wahoooo)... I waited until it was my turn to turn them in and talk to the HR lady. I told her that we killed a lot of trees today. She replied something on the lines of you would think most of these things would be digital with the technology these days. I wonder if i'll still be alive when everything is digital. The earth would be so much happier if we'd stop killing all these trees. I've noticed that more and more people are "going green." Keep going green y'all! haha...ok, i'm off the topic.

After getting writer's cramp form filling out all those forms (ok, i'm exaggerating here but yeah go with it) I headed down to occupational health to get my blood drawn, TB test, give the urine sample of course (I really hate peeing in a cup), and some other test (fit test?) where they put a clear hood on you and spray saccharine in the hole to see if you taste it which you're suppose to then they spray again but this time you have a mask on and see if you taste it which you're not suppose to. The nurse told me that the particles of the saccharine are the same size as the TB so they wanted to make sure that the mask is the adequate size and that it would help protect you if you do come across a patient with TB. Well, that's my understanding of the test from what she explained to me.

Well folks, i'm another step closer to the "real world." Orientation begins next Monday!

Until next time...