Reisunorg

I recently moved to Boston, MA (partly for career reasons, mostly to live with my current significant other and make sure she is the one before we get engaged/married) and started working at MGH, a hospital. My biggest surprise that I have felt is how slow and bureaucratic things are. For almost a decade I have been working for the government and thought it was slow and bureaucratic, but in comparison to a hospital things moved at lightning speed.

Case in point: this is the start of my third week here, and I still dont have access to my office. Apparently I am being unreasonable and impatient to inquire about getting a key to the office at the Buildings and Grounds office, bypassing the (often unhelpful) administrative staff who keep telling me to just wait. I dont think two and a half weeks of waiting makes me impatient! The B&G staff, in contrast, was pretty helpful and even mentioned that they received the key request last Thursday (a full week after the admin staff said they will put in a request) and that the key should be ready by last Friday. Today is Monday and still no key…

I do not particularly care either way, as I will be leaving this job as soon as I am sure my SO is the one and we will both leave Boston for better work, but the principle of gatekeeping and slowing things down (for whatever petty reason admin staff have) is antithetical to the way I work and live.