Today was amusing

[SeaCat]

This morning my wife and I went to a Risk Management Seminar for the hospital. We got to listen to the Risk Management officer for the hospital make his speech. I sat there trying hard not to laugh. I've heard all of this before and know just how far it goes. He must have noticed.

After his speal he singled me out and asked me what I thought was so funny. I did what I always do, and what makes me less than endeared to so many. I told him flat out that I thought it was a load of B.S. When he asked why I started explaining. I gave him a long list of problems I have reported in writing and he looked shocked. He didn't believe me and told me so. He told me that many of my complaints were unfounded. I challenged him on this and he replied that he only had time for one demonstration.

He chose what he thought of as one of my more innocent complaints. That of Oxygen Tanks being left standing upright without holders in halls and storage rooms. I told him I could easily deonstrate if he was willing to pay for the damages. He smiled and said that this would be no problem.

We chose an often unused hallway in the basement and I grabbed a freshly charged tank. I showed him what I had been reporting fo years and he just shook his head. He didn't understand my complaint. Then I tied a string around the neck of the tank, ran it around the corner and led him back to a safe place. When he was ready I pulled the string and we heard a muted clang then a loud hissing sound quickly followed by an even louder crash. When we went back to look he just stood there in shock. When I pulled the string I tipped the tank and it's neck hit the wall cracking it. This launched the tank down the hall into a row of damaged beds. (Now very damaged.)

Tomorrow I am going back to the hospital to show him all of my other complaints.

Also today I was informed by my boss that she has signed me up for an Empathy Class. (Is this a hint?)

Cat

 

[glynndah]

This morning my wife and I went to a Risk Management Seminar for the hospital. We got to listen to the Risk Management officer for the hospital make his speech. I sat there trying hard not to laugh. I've heard all of this before and know just how far it goes. He must have noticed.

After his speal he singled me out and asked me what I thought was so funny. I did what I always do, and what makes me less than endeared to so many. I told him flat out that I thought it was a load of B.S. When he asked why I started explaining. I gave him a long list of problems I have reported in writing and he looked shocked. He didn't believe me and told me so. He told me that many of my complaints were unfounded. I challenged him on this and he replied that he only had time for one demonstration.

He chose what he thought of as one of my more innocent complaints. That of Oxygen Tanks being left standing upright without holders in halls and storage rooms. I told him I could easily deonstrate if he was willing to pay for the damages. He smiled and said that this would be no problem.

We chose an often unused hallway in the basement and I grabbed a freshly charged tank. I showed him what I had been reporting fo years and he just shook his head. He didn't understand my complaint. Then I tied a string around the neck of the tank, ran it around the corner and led him back to a safe place. When he was ready I pulled the string and we heard a muted clang then a loud hissing sound quickly followed by an even louder crash. When we went back to look he just stood there in shock. When I pulled the string I tipped the tank and it's neck hit the wall cracking it. This launched the tank down the hall into a row of damaged beds. (Now very damaged.)

Tomorrow I am going back to the hospital to show him all of my other complaints.

Also today I was informed by my boss that she has signed me up for an Empathy Class. (Is this a hint?)

Cat

I assume you're going to be teaching this class...

 

[rgraham666]

Snerk.

Good one, Cat.

 

[SeaCat]

I assume you're going to be teaching this class...

Ummmmm, no.

Somehow I think this is a hint on her part to be more empathic towards my co-workers.

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

Ummmmm, no.

Somehow I think this is a hint on her part to be more empathic towards my co-workers.

Cat

Even when they're being idiots?

 

[Lee Chambers]

Working in the industrial sector, I know that something like that is a serious risk. Those tanks are under high pressure and have been known to punch through walls.

But that's funny as hell. I cannot believe this guy was moronic enough to actually let you show him that.

 

[Guest]

Cat, I truly enjoy hearing about your experiences.

Empathy.

*snicker*

 

[TheDivineMsM]

LOL Score one for the people closest to the action....
LOVE IT!

 

[SeaCat]

Working in the industrial sector, I know that something like that is a serious risk. Those tanks are under high pressure and have been known to punch through walls.

But that's funny as hell. I cannot believe this guy was moronic enough to actually let you show him that.

What shall be even more amusing will come tomorrow.

I will be demonstrating how Security is a joke and how Fire safety is even worse.

I may not have a job by the end of the day but I know that he will have at least learned something.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

I am often accused of not being empathic in work. Always it is by my co-workers. (My patients love me even though my boss tries to deny it.)

I just have this tiny little problem. I expect people to do their job. I don't feel sorry for them when they lie to me. I don't feel sorry for them when their lifestyle turns around and bites them on the ass. I don't cut them slack when they don't show up fo work and make the rest of us work shorthanded.

My most recent confrontation was with a co-worker who had informed all of us she was going to Miami. She left on Thursday and was supposed to be in work on Sunday. Saturday night she called and said she wouldn't be showing up for work on Sunday because her father had been injured in a car accident. I made several choice comments and went to work.

On Monday when she showed up for work I asked her how her father was doing. She stated she was worried about him, he was in the hospital in serious condition. I made the comment that I was sure he would bounce back quickly as he always did. She complained to my boss and I was called into her office and informed I wasn't being helpfull to my co-workers in their time of need.

I didn't even bother to show my boss the Duty book, which showed how this person had called in way too many times.

According to the book she had called in 30 times in the past 12 months. Her brother and her father had been in multiple accidents. Her sister had been shot. Her father had died. Her Mother had been raped. Multiple cousins had been either shot or injured in accidents.

I'm not empathic enough with my fellow employees.

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

LOL.

Humans.

 

[SensualCealy]

SeaCat,
I don't think 'bosses' really don't believe us when we have issues that may or may not cause injury or harm to their property. I think the real problem is MONEY and TIME. It takes one person to wander around with the person reporting the problem to actually report the problem to their boss. Then you have someone else that has to type up the problem to make it 'official'. Then someone else has to review the problem to see if it actually needs to be corrected. Then someone else has to call another person(s) to actually figure out how to fix the problem. Then those people have to call someone(s) in to actually do the work. Then back to the person that figured out what needed to be corrected, has to come back and have the situation inspected by someone else. Once this is done, then there is all the paper work that has to be organized so that all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed.

I truly don't know why when there is an issue, it can't just be fixed without all the hoops to jump through.
In my husbands case, its easier for the higher-ups to ignore the issues at fault then to actually take in account that there are many many lives at steak when dealing with high voltage machines.

Would love to hear how things turned out...
You are the best,
C

 

[carrie-on]

Back before I went to nursing school,I worked as an aide in a State Hospital,working the night shift. One of our duties was to wash,dry and fold the client's personal laundry. I had been complaining about the dryer in my building for some time and nothing had been done about it. (It was eating socks) One evening,I came in and a woman on the shift before me had been outside building snowmen with the clients and when she came in,she put her gloves (and only her gloves) in the dryer. When she went to get them out,there was only one of them. I told her that everybody laughed at me when I would tell them about it and then reached into the drum,where there was a crack along the back and pulled out her glove and about 8 socks. Some were scorched from touching the heating element. I gave her the glove and put the socks into a bag stapled it shut and put a note on it,sending it to the Facility Fire marshall,telling him how and where I found them. When I came in the next night,we had a brand new dryer!!

 

[Chantilyvamp]

lol, I so want a job with you. Would be refreshing to not have someone spouting bs all the time and I would have loved to see that guys face!

 

[starrkers]

Can't wait to find out how things went today (yesterday? tomorrow? - damn I hate timezones sometimes!)

 

[SeaCat]

Well I showed up at the hospital at the proper time to ind the Risk Manager waiting. He had come prepared. He had a smirk on his face. I climbed out of the car and handed him a Legal Pad and a pen. I then started pointing out things in the garage. (No security at the gate, even though it was locked open. Security shack left open. Three cameras damaged, etc.)

From there we went through the employee entrance, as I pointed out the problems there.

It took us three hours to walk through the hospital. He filled several pages with the complaints I pointed out. He had everything from Fire Safety problems, (Fire Doors Blocked as well as trash in the firestairs) to Security Problems to Health Safety Problems.

By the end of the tour he was sweating.

He thanked me for taking the time to point these things out and promised to make sure they were fixed. He then asked me how I knew about these things so I had to admit to having done security for many years and having been a Fireighter for several years.

Now let's see what happens if anything.

Cat

 

[starrkers]

A flurry of activity and a well worded blast from the Risk Manager to the supervisory staff generally would be a nice start...but we all know that won't happen.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

By the end of the tour he was sweating.

You live in Florida. Isn't that synonimous with summer time?