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6 251. I work with great people. We are like a large family doing for each other, looking out for each other. I like coming to work most of the time, even when experiments are not exactly going as planned. Not many can say they truly like their jobs, but I can. 252. My boss trusts me to do my job and to do it well. Having that trust makes coming to work a commitment and not a hassle. I really love my job and it is as simple as that. 253. You never know from one day to the next what kind of day you are going to have. The diversity of the patient population and the issues that need to be handled really change from day to day. It helps to keep me on my toes and keep me aware of what is going on around me. 254. This is a place that when you enter the building you feel as though you are home again. The people are great the clients are wonderful. Everyone here seems like an extended part of your family. So, therefore it’s not just a job its an adventure. Believe it or not I REALLLLY LOVE MY JOBBBBBB!!!!!! 255. Because most days I can bicycle to work. 256. No matter what hall you walk down there are so many smiling faces and people laughing. This proves to me that I work in an environment that the majority of the people are happy and care about their jobs. I think that people strive to excel when they are happy and contented and care about the quality of their work. 257. There are so many friendly people from different cultures and backgrounds that you get to meet. 258. UTMB is the place I unexpectantly fell in love with my now husband. 259. Free stuff. 260. Impact rocks. 261. Cake. 262. I can think of no better place to spend the majority of day. 263. What we do here matters! 264. Challenging work that contributes to a greater good. 265. Ability to be creative in job. 266. Schutte’s is within walking distance. 267. Short commute free of heavy traffic. 268. Competitive salary. 269. Opportunities for advancement. 270. Excellent benefits (anyone who thinks otherwise has never lived without health insurance). 271. Baked potato days in the cafeteria. 272. Mrs. Field’s cart in the cafeteria. 273. My co-workers and my boss. 274. Relatively reasonable parking (anyone who thinks otherwise has never tried to park in downtown Houston). 275. Town Meetings/access to Dr. Stobo. 276. On-site police. 277. Investment in equipment to support work done in our department. 278. Recycling and energy conservation efforts. 279. Old Red. 280. Recognition of longevity. 281. Day care center. 282. Empowering genius of Anthe Caruso, director of nursing at TDCJ hospital. 283. I love working here because this is a warm place to work. People speak, people offer assistance when they see people in distress and the grounds are so peaceful. I am proud to work at UTMB because I consider this institution the IBM of hospitals. After working in over seven hospitals during the past 30 years, I feel that this is the best hospital I have ever worked and I enjoy coming to work. 284. It’s close to home. I walk to work. 285. I’ve been here over 20 years and know a lot of people on campus. 286. Being here all those years, I know the system. 287. UTMB paid for my school—former secretary, now R.N. 288. Very proud when hear good things said about UTMB. 289. Great benefits, e.g., vacation and sick time and TRS. 290. Mostly everyone friendly and helpful at UTMB. 291. Had lots of opportunities to improve myself either through job positions or school. 292. Grew up in Galveston so knew I would work at UTMB eventually. 293. Love meeting people who come to UTMB from all over Texas. 294. The enjoyment of racing others over a large hill (the causeway) every day. 295. The unique location: Beaches, historic homes, palaces, pyramids, AND an academic medical center 296. Desire to meet and work with new people. 297. Constant facility updates (aka Construction) which leads to… 298. The availability of limitless shortcuts and unexplored hallways. 299. Daily exercise walking to and from destinations. 300. Best place to be schooled for a health career. 301. Loads of specialty ICUs. 302. Taking care of patients using “cutting-edge” medicine 303. Meeting the challenge of “Doing the best you can with what you’ve got,” without compromising quality. 304. Application of facts, knowledge, and usage. 305. Always “something” new to learn and do. 306. Always someone to teach about that new “something”. 307. Administrative support for one to learn new “somethings.” 308. Renown researchers and specialists. 309. Unbeatable employee compensation package. 310. Networking. 311. Teamwork. 312. The people here are the best! 313. The ability to explore one’s full potential. 314. Until I came to UTMB almost 15 years ago, I had never experienced such total kindness and politeness of the employees I work with. Why? What’s the secret? How does it start?
I can sum it up very easily: I
love working at UTMB because the commitment they have for the health of
the patients, and they do not discriminate due to ethnicity or the
inability to pay. They are always striving to improve the quality of care
given to patients by providing a medical and nursing school graduating
some of the very best. UTMB cares for their employees in many ways, one
being the work-study program. This program allowed me to keep my job and
go to school, achieving my goal to obtain my BSN. I
work specifically for the OB-GYN department, which is a great source of
pride in itself. I began in 1982 with the family planning program, now it
has developed into the Regional Maternal Child Health Program, seeing
women and children from many counties. Dr. Anderson and Carolyn-Nelson
Becker have brought this program to what it is today. They have brought
about change with the introduction of newer and modern techniques enabling
us to see more patients with always striving to give the highest level of
care. There are many wonderful mentors within the department, my regional
director, Cathy McLean, is always there to guide me and support me in
every way. I
am proud to be a part of the team, UTMB, here for the health of Texas. I
am an ex-employee of UTMB and I loved working there. My reasons add up to
more than 100. I was a housekeeping supervisor, I worked in many
buildings, with many extraordinary employees. And the more than 100
reasons were the employees I worked with. They were from the old school
and they knew how to work and how to have fun. Their jobs were hard and
dirty, but they seldom complained. They worked very hard to keep “our
home” clean. They were proud people. They were some of the greatest
people I’ve ever known. Not only did they work hard, they passed their
love on to others in the buildings they cleaned. The
supervisors also, I’ll never forget. They would also put themselves out
for floods, lack of employees in our area. They were always there to help
and you didn’t have to ask twice. If you had a problem, they always had
time to listen. Housekeeping was a very close-knit family. No one realizes
just what goes on to keep our hospital clean. Holidays
were the greatest. Everyone always put into dinners more than their
shares, and gave to everyone. No one ever went home hungry when it came to
the housekeepers holiday dinners. Upper
management made things a little easier also. They saw to it that we had
the products and machinery that we needed to get the jobs done. We had a
great number that are not with us anymore, but we will never forget them
or what they taught us. They were the type of management that you look up
to and are proud of. When
I got sick, my employees came. Even after I had to leave I could ask
employees to do something (housekeeping) and it was done. I
am very proud of my 100-plus reasons. And always will be. They are not
given the praise they deserve, but we know who we are and how hard we work.
I hope all of you remember I will always be looking over your shoulde I love working at
UTMB because of the many opportunities it can provide. My job here at UTMB
requires many tasks. And one of those tasks gives me the pleasure of being
on a great team. I am one of the switchboard operators. I work the night
shift. One of my duties is paging. This area can be exciting for you or it
can be a scary ordeal. Paging codes, whether
they would be Neo, Adult or Pedi, is one of the job requirements for the
hospital operator. I have been here for 18 years so I have those years
under my belt. I take everyone of them serious and to heart, as if “What
if that could be my parent or sister.” To some people, my
job might be a small part; but nonetheless, a part I take joy in doing. Questions run in my
mind—“Was I clear enough overhead while I paged” or “Did I type in
the correct information?” For 18 years now, it is the same questions
that I ask myself when the page is up to me. I was born in this
hospital back in 1961 with news that would crush my family’s life—that
I possibly would not make it out of the hospital. I did make it home and
am still here today. It was a good team in ’61 and still is today in
2001. A little life was
saved and now it is my turn to help. Some people may think, “Oh, you are
just the page operator.” We are all entitled to our own opinions. The
question I ask myself is “I hope the life I help to save was saved
because of the team behind the scene.” And if they passed, just let it
go for they went on to a better place. I’ll continue working to possibly
save another before the night ends.
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