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| Raging Incompetence | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 4 2009, 02:54 PM (262 Views) | |
| Jolly | Dec 4 2009, 02:54 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Please tell us about the most incompetent employee you have recently encountered.
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| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Copper | Dec 4 2009, 03:03 PM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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My current Speaker of the House is somewhat below the competence level I would like in that job. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Mark | Dec 4 2009, 03:13 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Anyone in the current or past administrations since before I was born. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| blondie | Dec 4 2009, 03:36 PM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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This ain't recent. Her name escapes me. As a staff nurse I avoided her b/c I'd heard of her. She was 50. Big breasts. 'The Boob', they called her. When I became a manager she became my problem. I could describe her incompetence but won't. It stemmed from stupidity. She got in an .8 ICU position due to union bumping. ICU staff mocked her .. She needed the easy assignments. An example of her stupidity: One morning I came on to see a banana peel over top an IV bag on a pole attached to a patient. I asked why that was there. Silence. Then laughing. Huh? Finally someone fessed an un-named someone put it there and told 'The Boob' this was Dr. So & So's way of passively adding Potassium to an IV solution .. that the Potassium was activated-diffused in by sunlight. Apparently 'The Boob' believed it. It was really hard for me to react with a straight face to that btw. Okay, what happened to 'The Boob'? After multiple incident reports, her being buddied 1 on 1 for every shift, I sent her on a long term 'remediation run' with the Nurse Educators located far away from the ICU. That gave us about 6 months of safe patient care but it cost us a lot of money. When she returned, she was buddied again, her every move was documented, detailing 'objectively' [gotta do that for a possible union grievance ya know] her daily screw-ups, and critical screw-ups during mock codes we'd run during her shifts. It took about a year, but I finally convinced her ICU wasn't the place she wanted to be. Finally, she applied for a job in a psych unit. I supported her move there. |
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| George K | Dec 4 2009, 03:48 PM Post #5 |
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Finally
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MOST recent? How about yesterday? One of my partners pre-op'ed a patient Wednesday night for surgery Thursday at noon. She wrote the following order: "Pepcid 20 mg, Reglan 10 mg, po (by mouth) at 10:00 AM" Now, that seems pretty clear, doesn't it? Give these drugs at 10 tomorrow. The patient came down to the OR having not gotten the meds because the nurse "forgot." And when she was called about it, she didn't think it was important. Incident report filed. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| JBryan | Dec 4 2009, 03:50 PM Post #6 |
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I am the grey one
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Oh, I'll just give him a double dose next time, k? |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| blondie | Dec 4 2009, 04:00 PM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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"But doc, you said he was supposed to be NPO ..." Gah. Boobs. |
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| George K | Dec 4 2009, 04:13 PM Post #8 |
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Finally
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Actually the order above that one said: "NPO xc Meds." |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 4 2009, 04:32 PM Post #9 |
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MAMIL
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I find it slightly worrying that over half the posts in this thread are about the medical profession. |
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| George K | Dec 4 2009, 04:34 PM Post #10 |
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Finally
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Just you wait...
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Kincaid | Dec 4 2009, 04:34 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Charlie. I was a lot attendant one summer in college. Gawd he was dumb, but eager like a puppy so you couldn't get too mad at him. One cold morning in September he was supposed to bring one of the diesel trucks around. He started it up and immediately began revving the ever-living piss out of it. I mean, it sounded like he was getting up to 7000 rpms or something (back before rev limiters). I ran over there frantically waving and he stopped. I asked him why he was doing that and he told me he understood it was good to warm the engine up first. I set him straight about that. One weekend when I wasn't working I heard he was in an accident on the lot. He crashed into one of the salesmen's daughters as she was driving her little two-seat Ford EXP (early 80's based on an Escort). It was in the body shop for a week. When it was done I was told to take it over and get it washed. I drove it to the wash stall and Charlie was in there with a large pick up. Now, this is really more my fault than his, but I parked behind him to wait until he was done. He got in the truck and looked out the back window. I thought, "No...it couldn't be". I saw his face, could he not see mine? He started the truck up and (without revving it to warm it up at all) backed right into the little black car as I was sitting there. He fairly panicked. I couldn't believe it but the bumper hit right on the blue oval and cracked it, but the fresh black paint was not marred. He ran around like a chicken w/his you-know-what cut off, buying an emblem with his own money and trying to figure out how to get it on there without anyone knowing. Later in life I was a supervisor and one of the administrative assistants finished some college coursework and, partly because she wasn't liked by her peers, was promoted to claims adjuster. We didn't have any training program there to speak of and she was put on my team. Dang she was dumb. I carried her for several months until I quit to take a better job. I didn't do her any favors but 1) training stupid people isn't my forte and 2) disciplining them and firing them isn't either. Oh yeah, Shayla. She was a computer geek (and a back-stabbing, manipulative Benedict Arnold). When my boss left I was promoted to his position. My first management experience. I figured that they'd replace my position with someone like me - with eight years in claims I was pretty well versed in it. They stuck me with Shayla. I immediately knew it would never work. I should have told them no way. Get someone qualified or I wouldn't take the promotion (she had a few years experience years before as a work comp claims assistant but had never done liability adjusting). Firing me then and there for insubordination would have been better. She was willingly incompetent. She actually thought she should have my job. She was crafty and smart and could have learned the job if she'd wanted. She feigned ignorance and inability and because 1) training lazy bitches isn't my forte and 2) disciplining them and firing them isn't either, I was a dead man walking. I kept taking more and more on myself and excusing her more and more. My case load went from 300 claims to over 600. I was putting out fires and falling behind. Eventually I was demoted, a new manager installed and then in six months, when the new manager knew what the hell she was doing, I was fired. Shayla meanwhile ingratiated herself to the new boss (as she somehow seems to do where ever she goes) and continued on. She is now the only employee that still exists in direct succession to that former job, after the company was bought out everybody but her moved on. I just saw a fax w/her name on it the other day - still working for CNA Insurance. Oh, I can't forget Curt. He was my boss. Nice guy but totally incompetent. I could not understand how he could function. Our company sent out surveys to all employees, supposedly to be anonymous. I ripped him badly. I tried to disguise my handwriting. I did not route the letter through a relative in another city, like our mechanic did, to hide his identity. A few months later I was fired. Edited by Kincaid, Dec 4 2009, 04:57 PM.
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| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| BeeLady | Dec 4 2009, 04:38 PM Post #12 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Today, thru my college student son who went to the bank to cash his savings bond in order to make his next tuition payment... seems all the staff there had never done this before .. they stalled, tried to turn him away, sell him a credit card, questioned his identity..for 1.5 hours..... The kid prevailed.
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"My wheel shall sing responsive to my tread, And I will spin so fine, so strong a thread Fate shall not cut it, nor Time's forces break" "Distaff and Spindle: Sonnets by Mary Ashley Townsend" 1895 | |
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| John Galt | Dec 4 2009, 04:46 PM Post #13 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Back in the days of mainframe computers, programs that malfunctioned would produce hundreds of pages of data called "dumps". You needed a Captain America magic decoder ring to understand them. We had a program that routinely died and produced a dump. It was a benign problem and really didn't hurt anything, but eventually someone got around to fixing it. No more dumps. Day after the fix was implemented, we got a call from a user. User: "I didn't get my numbers report today." Programmer: "What numbers report?" User: "The numbers report I get every day." Programmer: "I'll come over." He found a two foot high stack of old dumps behind the woman's desk, with others filed in boxes, in date order. She had been working for the company for 15 years. Edited by John Galt, Dec 4 2009, 04:59 PM.
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| John D'Oh | Dec 4 2009, 06:12 PM Post #14 |
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MAMIL
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Wonderful - Absolutely wonderful. I think every large company has these people, totally isolated from reality, but frequently convinced they're indispensable. To anybody who thinks 'Our company doesn't have anyone like that' - maybe it's you! |
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