Working with Twix

Twix and I worked together, very briefly, back when I started working for MiCATT.  She’s one of those lovely people who are completely unflappable in the face of extreme provocation, and she’s genuinely nice to everyone.  Even some patients that I lose patience with…

She’s also a bit older, and has the benefit of a number of years in the job as well as more life experience generally, so Sauron puts all the newbies with her for their first couple of weeks out of training school.  She generally eases them in to the real life on the road.  You could say that she’s the mother-figure at Flagmarsh.  Nothing goes wrong when Twix is shepherding the newbies.

Except when I was the newbie.  From the first job of my first shift, we had chaos.  After three shifts, Sauron decided that I needed to see the gentler side of the job, and switched me and Gingerbread for the next week.  After a few more-normal shifts, Sauron tried Twix and me together again; all hell broke loose once more.

So we were separated indefinitely.  My gentle easing into the job was done by Thunderbird 3, KitKat, Mustard and Supermedic.  I never got to benefit from Twix’s wisdom and street-smarts.  I never got her gentle coaching on how to do the job for real.  Or the Twix method for filling in the paperwork.  Or the CPD write-up method.  Don’t get me wrong – the others did a fantastic job – but I felt like I had missed out on something that was ‘normal’.

So I spoke to Sauron about it.  [I am truly blessed to have a line manager who is so approachable and friendly.]

And now Twix and I do the odd shift together about once every three or four months.

And that shift is coming up next week. 

Keep safe,
TGG