Work conflict: Working in the health care profession means that if your relief doesn't come to work or is late you the care taker on duty can not leave. After a 16 hour shift all you want is to see your relief, report and go home to your family or at least your bed. My relief is always late and we often argue about this. I told the lead tech but still her behavior continued. About three day ago I had taken all the crap I am going to from her and told her. I will admit I did not handle the conflict well. I told her how I felt and I may have insulated her a little, telling her I feel she is lazy and inconsiderate. She and I both ended up with a write up for the words exchanged in the public view.
School Conflict: School conflict worked out better. Last semester I had a professor that was very unstable and controlling. He strongly believed that fear is a healthy thing. I don't know about any one besides me but my fight or flight reaction to fear is more fight than flight. He started the first day by telling each of us that he has seen any and all academic transcripts from elementary to that day. Then, He continually made chauvinist remarks about girls being the weaker sex and call you out by saying "you, little girl". Are you kidding me!! This is 2012,(2011) No, he did not just call me, a mother, wife, and voting American a little girl to insulate me. I handled this situation the only way I could with out having to go to court. I dropped the class and took a different instructor this semester. I would like to go on record in saying that I corrected his behavior several times. In cases when he called me girl or little girl I simple said my own name out loud so that he could hear me clearly. This only made the situation worse.
Home Conflict: My eldest son is coming into his own and I understand this very well. Yet at times his requests are unreasonable.He currently wants me to rent a hotel room in down town Nashville for him and two of his friends for the anaemia conference. There is NO WAY I am renting a room for my 14 year old son and his 14 year old friends. I tried being reasonable in saying that if the other mothers were willing to drive there and back on one of the other two days that I would drive them there and back on one of the days. The conference is three days long there is three of them, makes sense to me. But to him I was not letting him be a big boy (my words not his). I left this conflict unresolved. I am willing to compromise but not on his terms.
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