Monday, March 03, 2003
Someone call the crash cart - my heart has stopped
Being on the midnight shift in THE operations/communications room for the base can really really suck sometimes… Tonight I experienced my greatest fear of this entire crappy “war” situation…. Learning that a loved one was injured…
We have to keep in contact with a “senior” supervisor in a variety of places… As we call the contact in Korea we learn an employee over there was in an accident involving a car and a motor scooter, was in the hospital but was going to be released.. Well we have to report that sort of incident so the shift leader needs to call back and get more specific info…
For those that don’t know - my father, also a gov’t employee, is stationed in Korea and is, in a round about way attached to this base even though he is over there… Hearing the personnel issue when the shift leader got off the phone the 1st time my heart IMMEDIATELY went to my throat knowing my father is over there AND he owns a motor scooter, add the knowledge that he HAS had 2 other accidents with it that of course * I * didn’t find out about til MUCH later… Sure enough, it’s my dad!!! ARRRRGGGGGG
Now my father has been Korea for 6 yrs now… and he desires to retire and live there for the rest of his life.. . The unit he supports likes him and wants him to stay, rather then break in a new person… The senior person is NOT making life easy for Daddy, really giving him a hard time about wanting to stay another year as personnel don’t USUALLY stay at a station for so long… He waited til last minute to extend him this year that he didn’t get to come home this yr to visit us… and of course he has to go thru hoops to get to stay “in country’ til he retires in Jan 04… Why all this hassle is beyond me and logic.. WHY would you want to pay for 2 moves – Dad’s from there and his replacement TO there, have the unit go thru a slight disruption during the transition, etc…
And now THIS…. The senior contact didn’t HAVE to report my Dad’s accident the way he did, something inside me screams ULTERIOR motive!!! But that’s another story… I am now waiting for my Dad to call me as I talked to the senior contact to ask how my Dad is and asked him to have Dad call me since he was on his way to the hospital to see my Dad… So I wait for the call *sigh* …. Til next time…
Being on the midnight shift in THE operations/communications room for the base can really really suck sometimes… Tonight I experienced my greatest fear of this entire crappy “war” situation…. Learning that a loved one was injured…
We have to keep in contact with a “senior” supervisor in a variety of places… As we call the contact in Korea we learn an employee over there was in an accident involving a car and a motor scooter, was in the hospital but was going to be released.. Well we have to report that sort of incident so the shift leader needs to call back and get more specific info…
For those that don’t know - my father, also a gov’t employee, is stationed in Korea and is, in a round about way attached to this base even though he is over there… Hearing the personnel issue when the shift leader got off the phone the 1st time my heart IMMEDIATELY went to my throat knowing my father is over there AND he owns a motor scooter, add the knowledge that he HAS had 2 other accidents with it that of course * I * didn’t find out about til MUCH later… Sure enough, it’s my dad!!! ARRRRGGGGGG
Now my father has been Korea for 6 yrs now… and he desires to retire and live there for the rest of his life.. . The unit he supports likes him and wants him to stay, rather then break in a new person… The senior person is NOT making life easy for Daddy, really giving him a hard time about wanting to stay another year as personnel don’t USUALLY stay at a station for so long… He waited til last minute to extend him this year that he didn’t get to come home this yr to visit us… and of course he has to go thru hoops to get to stay “in country’ til he retires in Jan 04… Why all this hassle is beyond me and logic.. WHY would you want to pay for 2 moves – Dad’s from there and his replacement TO there, have the unit go thru a slight disruption during the transition, etc…
And now THIS…. The senior contact didn’t HAVE to report my Dad’s accident the way he did, something inside me screams ULTERIOR motive!!! But that’s another story… I am now waiting for my Dad to call me as I talked to the senior contact to ask how my Dad is and asked him to have Dad call me since he was on his way to the hospital to see my Dad… So I wait for the call *sigh* …. Til next time…
