Workplace Behaviors We All Know and Love

Do you ever encounter what seems to be incompetence on your job or when dealing with others in your personal life?

What about laziness? Lying? Lack of caring about the patient or consumer? Other bad qualities in workers?

I'm thinking of a recent situation and how it was handled. It has shown me that staff (not just in the Nursing department) are so often really terrible at communicating. Paperwork is not processed in a timely manner, necessary phone calls or emails are not answered, and informing someone who really needs to know of all the details does not occur.

In my long life, I have seen labs and x ray results wind up on the wrong chart and have heard of the wrong part being operated on. Any nurse who comes here regularly has heard of these and a whole lot more, including some real sicko or juvenile happenings perpetrated by nurses or other personnel.

And we often hear how various crimes are committed in the world at large. Some of the crimes are just so ridiculous. You fell out of love with me so I'll burn downt the multi-family apartment building you live in. Why not just mope around for a couple of days and then go out and meet some new people?

Or a little boy taking a piano lesson across the street from the scene of a gas station robbery in the Oakland, CA area is made paraplegic by a stray bullet from the incompetent robber. Etc. The lad's name is Chris Rodriguez and he's probably about 12 now. Imagine all the adjustments he must make, all the turmoil of the teen years to come, + being paraplegic and for such a horrible reason. He didn't dive into shallow water or do anything wrong except be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Munchhausen Syndrome type events, like Genene Ann Jones, LPN of Texas, who used Heparin and succinylcholine to try to be a heroine. She's scheduled for early release, BTW, due to mandatory release laws in Texas, where she's been locked up for a few years for serial murder. Truly scary. I thought Texas hung 'em high a lot. Wonder what line of work she'll pursue. Hopefully, she never will be working with patients anywhere ever again.

Then there are the Ted Bundy's of the world, maiming, murdering, mutilating perhaps more than 100 young women and then practicing necrophiliac sex or cannibalism with the corpses. I mean, you can't dream this stuff up.

Not sure how I got onto the psychiatric and criminal side of things. Maybe I'm thinking that the concealing of vitally necessary information from a patient is about as bad? In a certain way, maybe it is.

Anyway, my question to you is what your own experiences have been with incompetent or even those who intentionally withhold vital information from you. Thanks to all for sharing.
Quote from Kooky KorkyDo you ever encounter what seems to be incompetence on your job or when dealing with others in your personal life?What about laziness? Lying? Lack of caring about the patient or consumer? Other bad qualities in workers?I'm thinking of a recent situation and how it was handled. It has shown me that staff (not just in the Nursing department) are so often really terrible at communicating. Paperwork is not processed in a timely manner, necessary phone calls or emails are not answered, and informing someone who really needs to know of all the details does not occur. In my long life, I have seen labs and x ray results wind up on the wrong chart and have heard of the wrong part being operated on. Any nurse who comes here regularly has heard of these and a whole lot more, including some real sicko or juvenile happenings perpetrated by nurses or other personnel. And we often hear how various crimes are committed in the world at large. Some of the crimes are just so ridiculous. You fell out of love with me so I'll burn downt the multi-family apartment building you live in. Why not just mope around for a couple of days and then go out and meet some new people?Or a little boy taking a piano lesson across the street from the scene of a gas station robbery in the Oakland, CA area is made paraplegic by a stray bullet from the incompetent robber. Etc. The lad's name is Chris Rodriguez and he's probably about 12 now. Imagine all the adjustments he must make, all the turmoil of the teen years to come, + being paraplegic and for such a horrible reason. He didn't dive into shallow water or do anything wrong except be in the wrong place at the wrong time.Munchhausen Syndrome type events, like Genene Ann Jones, LPN of Texas, who used Heparin and succinylcholine to try to be a heroine. She's scheduled for early release, BTW, due to mandatory release laws in Texas, where she's been locked up for a few years for serial murder. Truly scary. I thought Texas hung 'em high a lot. Wonder what line of work she'll pursue. Hopefully, she never will be working with patients anywhere ever again. Then there are the Ted Bundy's of the world, maiming, murdering, mutilating perhaps more than 100 young women and then practicing necrophiliac sex or cannibalism with the corpses. I mean, you can't dream this stuff up. Not sure how I got onto the psychiatric and criminal side of things. Maybe I'm thinking that the concealing of vitally necessary information from a patient is about as bad? In a certain way, maybe it is.Anyway, my question to you is what your own experiences have been with incompetent or even those who intentionally withhold vital information from you. Thanks to all for sharing.

I had never heard of Genene Ann Jones, so I googled her name.......unbelievable........just unbelievable....I actually had a knot in my stomachwhen reading about her case.

Quote from Kooky KorkyDo you ever encounter what seems to be incompetence on your job or when dealing with others in your personal life?

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Hey Kooky. When I was about 12 or 13 or so, I couldn't get my head around how these evil people could maim, kill and torture others and why people were just not out there stopping them! It used to literally haunt my dreams. I realise now that these people's choices 2 hurt others are exactly that - their choices, and that there is no explanation as to why bad things happen to some people. Many psych patients suffering from PTSD ask me: 'Why did this (particular incident, whatever) happen to ME??' and of course, I can't answer them. Some have asked me why their God (insert name of your deity) has abandoned them. I personally do not believe in one God per se, but I've always tried to say to others that life is never a straight line: everybody has their ups and downs and life goes in waves. But once you accept that bad things happen to everyone, life can be a bit more calmer and you accept it more. And then I let them rave on, and move on to how they can deal with their trauma. But traumatic events become PART of you, they never leave you and will never be wiped out. I never tell people 'to forget' what's happened to them, as when u deal with a trauma, you can confront it and it gives you power and enables you to come to terms with it.I don't think we will ever comprehend how people like Ted Bundy think because we're not living their particular circumstances. And from what I've read, he was considered SANE by quite a few top notch psychiatrists.I was in the ED/ER last week and we were missing paperwork from a client. They said ask the unit secretary, so I went to her & SAID we were missing paperwork from a current patient. She got me chasing around another part of the hospital, & I found out SHE meant discharged patients! I went back and said why on earth would I be asking re d/c'd patients??! Also had a patient who thought their tumour had disappeared, Doc couldn't understand why the CT scan showed no tumour, then the cleaner came up behind him (as he was in the corridor at the xray box @ the time), and do you know what she said? That's not the right xray, it belongs to somebody else! Then he had to go tell this poor patient his tumour hadn't disappeared just because someone else didn't check the xray was in the right packet. Sometimes we're so busy, we don't realise how our actions affect others I don't think.R u stressed Kooky, do u need a holiday perhaps?