Everybody has those moments regardless of work shift - just a matter of
applying priorities.
* Deal with the warning lights, if no more than triage and come back soon
(Unless it's a REAL emergency)
* Unless the worker entry has to do with the alarms, so what? Get to them
as you can.
* A ringing phone is a request, not an imperative. Many people have trouble
with this concept.
* Use the co-worker as a resource to deal with the overflow, since his
problem is low priority.
That's just scene management 101 ...
Dave Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Cohen [mailto:ncohen12@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:35 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; Know_Nukes@yahoogroups.com; UNPLUG
Salem Campaign; JerseyShoreNuclearWatch@yahoogroups.com
Subject: NY Times - nuke guards swamped by overtime
Guards At Nuclear Plants Say
They Feel Swamped by A Deluge Of
Overtime
In an interview, one guard at the plant here acknowledged
that she "just lost it" at work one day this summer, when confronted near
the end of a long
shift with ringing telephones, workers knocking on the glass of her booth
because their ID cards would
not function in the reader and various warning lights flashing. When another
guard approached her with
a low-priority problem, she cursed at him, shouted and burst into tears,
she said.
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