In honor of hump day...

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Tell me your terrible, terrible work stories!

[blueshirt2003]

I can't think of any major stories off hand but 2 instances that made me shaking mad.

I worked at a veterinarian office and we had a guy come in when we were closed (staff meeting every week at a specified time) screaming that we had to have a doctor because he had called us and was pissed. He hadn't called us at all. He had called a different vet. His dog had swallowed a rock and he was simply too upset to realize how mean he was being.

Another time, a customer screamed and ranted at me on the phone regarding a grooming appointment.

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When I worked in the kitchens at a hospital, I had a coworker take uneaten or half eaten food off of patients trays. I would report her but she would keep doing it. Shortly before she died, there was a news article about her being a hoarder and she had rooms of food. The whole house was condemned and she was moved to a nursing home. I think the family tore down the house eventually.

When I was a manager at starbucks I had a customer pour his coffee out on the floor because "we always make it wrong". It was a venti. That was 20!ounces of hot, sticky liquid we had to clean up during a rush. The sad part it was a really simple drink.

At my current job, I was asked to cut a weave out of someone's hair on our lunch break. It was a bad weave for sure but I'm not about to spend my lunch fixing your hairdresser's mistake.

[drunkpeggy]

About a month after starting at my current job, a female employee and a male employee were carrying on an affair. Somehow her husband found out and showed up at the office on a Saturday when the male employee was working. The building is secured so the husband was pounding on the windows and the doors demanding to be let in screaming "I'm going to fucking kill you!". The female employee and her husband divorced, the male employee was re-assigned to another office and went back to his wife and new child...I don't think she ever found out.

We had a file clerk who constantly got caught having sex or performing sexual acts in cars in the parking lot. She remained employed for three years until she gave her notice and walked out.

We had another pair of male/female employees have an affair. She was married and into her late 30's, I don't think he was even 20. One of her subordinates started texting and possibly hooking up with the male employee. The supervisor demanded to see this girl's cell phone for the proof (all while at the office). The girl then got her revenge by calling the supervisor's husband and ratting her out which led to a HUGE fight between her and the husband and suspicious bruises on her arm.

The 20 year old in the above story got involved in some nonsense and several men with guns showed up in our parking lot looking for him.

The day before my last day of work (at my previous employer) I was accused of being in collusion with and accepting kickbacks from one of the vendors I had hired because one of the partners "thought" the quote the vendor gave us during his proposal was $50 less than what he had been charging us for 2 years, during which time he had to sign off on the invoices every month. I think he was looking for a way to fire me and bad mouth me. When I asked him point blank "Are you accusing me of taking kickbacks?" he told me "No!! But only a guilty person would interpret my concern that way." I didn't go back the next day.

[drunkpeggy]

Oh! Another one!

I worked as a receptionist at a real estate office. I started dating one of the new realtors, he worked for his dad who was a big earner for the office. The dad set me up with a full time job at title agency. It was a great set up until Christmas Eve when my manager told me she was dating my boyfriend's dad...who was married. I told them I wouldn't say anything but if asked I wouldn't lie. I quit within 3 months and then two months later my boyfriend finally put things together, asked me, and I told him the truth. Calamity between the dad and the mom ensued.

[beans]

[this turned out really long...]

oh gosh.... I dont even know where to start today with this. My whole job here is one big horror story. My actual job dealing with clients is fine, and for the most part the clients don't really stress me out. The whole company is just really unprofessional, and many people are unethical... its just a clusterfuck over here. I stay to try and continue to help people and maybe turn things around here... but... if I wasnt moving in August (with a quit date in July) I would be out of here, like, four weeks ago.

About half the people are related to the owner somehow- without qualifications to do the job (the HR lady has a high school degree, and NO common sense or critical thinking skills). Many of the non-related people are sleeping around with everyone else. They have people clinically licensed doing things they really shouldn't be doing i.e. doing group therapy that the staff psychologist technically "oversees" even though he doesn't step foot in that room, he just blindly signs off on notes. Medical records people losing client's charts (all.the.time), huge HIPPA violations.

They recently added walls to this office for more private space- except the "contractor" was just the owner's cousin who has some tools. He basically threw together some walls that go about two feet below the ceiling (so... there goes the privacy?) he put in doors, but no door knobs, spackled the seams in the drywall, but didnt paint it. He didnt even clean up the mess, so there were wood chips and sanding mess all over the office and two of the four florescent lights dont work. It looked like a fucking crack house for real (still does). I was the only one who cared about the floor, so I vacuumed it all up. If I were a potential client, I would walk in the door and walk right back out. Its now been two weeks with no promise of anyone coming back to finish the project, and when we complained to our intermediate supervisor, she responded that we better go buy some paint and hardware and come in (unpaid) on Saturday. Nice.

They expect the billing lady to input things to billing website at 11 or 12 at night (with no over time), she called in sick because her kid was sick and they expected her to do work from home, but told her that since she didnt come in they weren't paying her for her time (the owner finally - begrudgingly- told her to turn in her hours from home before he changed his mind). ETA- there is no paid sick time until you've been here for a year, she started working last October.

My female boss chews dip during meetings. She offered me some during clinical staff training. Barf. She just spits in the trash can.

The psychologist who was supposed to be giving the provisionally licensed therapists supervision (per the state, as a requirement to be licensed) had let his supervisor licensure expire and so all those therapists got cease and desist letters stating they couldn't practice until they had a different supervisor. This doesn't affect me, thank the tiny Christmas Jesus, because I am fully licensed. Otherwise I would be livid!

We had to strong arm the owner into fixing a MASSIVE mold problem which he thought we were exaggerating. We got shit for trying to be reimbursed for cleaning supplies for the office (we clean our own bathrooms, etc).

The workers have huge issues with compliance on paperwork (we are mainly Medicaid reimbursed) and the state licensing board always has corrective actions for that kind of stuff. I would not be surprised if I found out this place got shut down for having to pay back massive amounts of fines for stupid shit (like people not signing paperwork. Um, you always always always have to sign AND date your paperwork. insurance 101 people.)

Its just so awful. The morale here is like negative 100. No one is happy. People feel too stuck to find a better company to work for. I dont know why I stay, other than to continue doing therapy and save up money for school, and because I know I am leaving soon. Its so ridiculous. I could go on and on.

[sookie]

I worked at Enterprise right out of college and had a customer threaten to kill me once because I wouldn't give him a car because he had no license and no money. We had to call the police to have him removed from the property because he tried to throw something at me while I was with a different (paying and license carrying) customer.

In college I worked at a broadcasting company with 4 different radio stations under them. When one of the channels switched from Christian to alternative rock, I had a lady come in and pray for our souls and give us all bibles.

[jamesonontherocks]

My worst (recent) work story had to do with an anesthesiologist who did not know how to do his job. An old guy broke his hip and needed it fixed. His blood work showed that his blood was thin because of medicines he was on which means it had to be done under general anesthesia (because a spinal anethesia could bleed too much into the spinal cord and cause issues). We were doing the surgery and the guy wasn't bleeding. Even a person with normal blood levels bleed during this. I looked at the anesthesiologists monitors and he had a blood pressure and pulse. We finished the surgery, the doctor left to go a meeting, I was closing him up and putting a dressing on. When we flipped him back on his back and took down the drapes, he looked a blue (but still had the tube in). The nurse was out in the hall doing something, so the anesthesiologist asked me to do a few compressions to "circulate medication a bit faster". Having been in roughly 100 code blues, i side eyed him but did as I was told. He had me stop and then two minutes late begin CPR. It took about 2 minutes before the nurse came back in and saw what was going on (it was late at night, like 9pm so there was minimal staff in the operating room). We worked on him for a while and called it. I stepped into the hall to call the doctor back to talk to the family. When I went back into the room to help clean it up for the family, they had restarted compressions. Then called it again. After my doc talked to the family we went back to the room to move the patient off the OR bed and my doctor told me it was him first intra-op death (SMH hes been a surgeon 10 years) and got emotional.

People dying in front of me doesn't phase me - like I said, I've been in 100 codes - 2 lived and neither had brain function. This guy had obviously been dead throughout most of the surgery. And worst, the patient told the anesthesiologist that he was on oxygen at home (something that wasn't shared with the rest of us) and he shouldnt have been given general anesthesia. It could have waited until it was ok for spinal.

Thats all

[MrsAggie]

When I was getting my first degree, I was a student worker at A&M. My supervisor was essentially a secretary and had me doing some of her work and taking credit. I only made $8/hr and never got a raise (worked there for 2.5 years- she was only there during the last year). She wanted me to work more hours in a row, not dispersed throughout the day. Um, I worked around my class schedule which is the point of a student worker position.

She texted me all the time, whether it was in the evening or during class. She would send text messages bashing me, telling me I'll never make it in the real world, and even threatening me. She actually got pissed and told me I would never make it in the real world because she texted me asking why I wasn't at work and I was in class. I had printed off my schedule and given it to her 3 times in 2 months and she never seemed to know when my classes were. I actually saved all of the text messages and had planned on turning them in to HR to get her fired. She no longer works for the university anymore so it all worked out anyways.

[MrsAggie]

May 23, 2012 11:38:51 GMT -5 jamesonontherocks said:

My worst (recent) work story had to do with an anesthesiologist who did not know how to do his job. An old guy broke his hip and needed it fixed. His blood work showed that his blood was thin because of medicines he was on which means it had to be done under general anesthesia (because a spinal anethesia could bleed too much into the spinal cord and cause issues). We were doing the surgery and the guy wasn't bleeding. Even a person with normal blood levels bleed during this. I looked at the anesthesiologists monitors and he had a blood pressure and pulse. We finished the surgery, the doctor left to go a meeting, I was closing him up and putting a dressing on. When we flipped him back on his back and took down the drapes, he looked a blue (but still had the tube in). The nurse was out in the hall doing something, so the anesthesiologist asked me to do a few compressions to "circulate medication a bit faster". Having been in roughly 100 code blues, i side eyed him but did as I was told. He had me stop and then two minutes late begin CPR. It took about 2 minutes before the nurse came back in and saw what was going on (it was late at night, like 9pm so there was minimal staff in the operating room). We worked on him for a while and called it. I stepped into the hall to call the doctor back to talk to the family. When I went back into the room to help clean it up for the family, they had restarted compressions. Then called it again. After my doc talked to the family we went back to the room to move the patient off the OR bed and my doctor told me it was him first intra-op death (SMH hes been a surgeon 10 years) and got emotional.

People dying in front of me doesn't phase me - like I said, I've been in 100 codes - 2 lived and neither had brain function. This guy had obviously been dead throughout most of the surgery. And worst, the patient told the anesthesiologist that he was on oxygen at home (something that wasn't shared with the rest of us) and he shouldnt have been given general anesthesia. It could have waited until it was ok for spinal.

Thats all

I smell a lawsuit. Sorry you have to work with idiots.

[brandienee]

I used to work at an accounting office in Florida.

Our manager was a hiiiiiiick. She wasn't a CPA and took one small tax class, and is responsible for handling accounting for about 75 clients. My huge problem with her was that she was a smoker. It wouldn't have been a problem if she took her habit outside, but she decided that it was okay to smoke at her desk. It drove me crazy. Not only is it HIGHLY unprofessional, but it was also a health hazard to my co-worker who has serious breathing problems. Her excuses were always "I blow it out of my window... It is too cold to go outside... It's tax season, I am too busy for breaks." Whatever.

A few months later, while going through our deposits and invoices we learned that we were missing money from one client who liked to pay in cash. My co-worker knew that he paid, because she handled the transaction with him, but it never hit the bank account when our Manager would settle accounts. We decided to dig a little deeper, and it turned out that our manager was taking this money every month for the last 7 years!! Our corporate boss (Who is also a tool) had no idea that this client existed. So we called corporate and told him about the situation. At first he wanted to fire her and file a lawsuit, and he sent his assistant out to our office to talk things over with her. She managed to manipulate the assistant and she kept her job, she didn't get disciplined at all. My co-worker and I were stunned. She stole thousands of dollars of company money and he was willing to let it go. What kind of crack is this guy smoking?

The best part was that I was laid off because he couldn't afford a part time receptionist at this office. I wonder why...

I keep an eye out for this company from time to time hoping that the IRS decides to audit the shit out of them. They way she ran her client's accounts was absolutely terrible.

[G22]

At my current job, I had brought a patient back to get vitals, run through meds and allergies, and such before the doctor went in. As soon as I was in the room with the patient she starting yelling at me and getting pissed over her med renewals. (She hadn't been in in over a year and therefore, didn't get any until she would come in for an appt) I dealt with it, but nothing I said made her happy, even apologizing. I just got vitals and left and explained what happened to my doc. After leaving the room, I had a mini panic attack and broke out in hives on my neck I was so stressed out. I have never had that happen before. Thankfully my doc backed me up and told the patient to "hit the road" if she was going to treat his staff that way. So far she has not been back in...

[jamesonontherocks]

May 23, 2012 11:52:13 GMT -5 MrsAggie said:

May 23, 2012 11:38:51 GMT -5 jamesonontherocks said:

My worst (recent) work story had to do with an anesthesiologist who did not know how to do his job. An old guy broke his hip and needed it fixed. His blood work showed that his blood was thin because of medicines he was on which means it had to be done under general anesthesia (because a spinal anethesia could bleed too much into the spinal cord and cause issues). We were doing the surgery and the guy wasn't bleeding. Even a person with normal blood levels bleed during this. I looked at the anesthesiologists monitors and he had a blood pressure and pulse. We finished the surgery, the doctor left to go a meeting, I was closing him up and putting a dressing on. When we flipped him back on his back and took down the drapes, he looked a blue (but still had the tube in). The nurse was out in the hall doing something, so the anesthesiologist asked me to do a few compressions to "circulate medication a bit faster". Having been in roughly 100 code blues, i side eyed him but did as I was told. He had me stop and then two minutes late begin CPR. It took about 2 minutes before the nurse came back in and saw what was going on (it was late at night, like 9pm so there was minimal staff in the operating room). We worked on him for a while and called it. I stepped into the hall to call the doctor back to talk to the family. When I went back into the room to help clean it up for the family, they had restarted compressions. Then called it again. After my doc talked to the family we went back to the room to move the patient off the OR bed and my doctor told me it was him first intra-op death (SMH hes been a surgeon 10 years) and got emotional.

People dying in front of me doesn't phase me - like I said, I've been in 100 codes - 2 lived and neither had brain function. This guy had obviously been dead throughout most of the surgery. And worst, the patient told the anesthesiologist that he was on oxygen at home (something that wasn't shared with the rest of us) and he shouldnt have been given general anesthesia. It could have waited until it was ok for spinal.

Thats all

I smell a lawsuit. Sorry you have to work with idiots.

I don't think so. Guy was pretty old like 87 and [retty sick. His family seemed ok with it, but only time will tell.

oh and the worst part if that story? i was 22 weeks pregnant. cpr + pregnancy = pain. i was so sore the next day i could barely move