P.M.A.

What is P.M.A you might be asking yourself??? P.M.A. Is remembering to have a Positive Mental Attitude!! This is some thing that my mom always use to say to herself while she was getting her Chemotherapy treatments. And to this day when I am feeling really stressed out about things I remember my mom sitting there bald headed and telling me that I had to remember to keep the P.M.A alive.

Where I work we put in 10 - 12 hour days and we are working really hard the entire time. Sometimes we all get stressed and tired but there are some of my co-workers that have lost the P.M.A. and it is getting really old to hear them all bitch and complain every day. We are all tired we all have missed a lunch or 2 but unfortunately the sick pets can't wait.

When people get frustrated I try and bring up the point that, I wouldn't want to have to go to an emergency clinic and I would hope that my vet would do the same. They just kind of ignore it.

I still love my job. I work for an amazing person who treats her entire staff with kindness, but I am really getting fed up with some of my co-workers. It is starting to rub off on me. The reason I put in these long hours is because I love what I do, but right now its getting hard to go to work with a smile, not because we are slammed or because I know I might not get a lunch, but its the fact that I know that my co-workers are going to be in a negative pissed off mood all day long.

So the next time you think that life sucks look for a little perspective. A person who was bald headed was able to smile and remind me (a person with my health, a roof over my head, and people that love me) to keep the P.M.A. alive. Do yourself a favor take just a second right now, stop what ever you are doing take a deep breath in and smile.

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