That Ain't Legal

[thessalian]

So I'm working in Radiotherapy, a part of Cancer Services. And I am reliably informed by those around me that there's a woman in the next office over who is actively refusing to do any work at all. As in, there are tapes containing letters, treatment summaries and referrals that need to get done that have been sitting on her desk for two weeks and she has done squat all with them. In fact, she is complaining about how far behind she is, despite the fact that, when these tapes were eventually passed along to me, I cleared them by the end of the day despite having to fight with the document management system to make sure I was logging them under the right clinic etc. Temp, remember?

Anyway, the means by which I ended up doing her work were a bit convoluted. The Doctor Who fan in my office, having noticed that this woman was complaining about the work she had that she just refused to do, took the matter up with the senior secretary (whose office I was working in on Friday). The senior secretary went to talk to the lazy moo. The lazy moo threatened legal action against the senior secretary, the registrar who dictated the tapes and someone else whose position I really don't remember right now. Apparently she wants to take them to court over them telling her to do the job she was hired to do.

...Yeah, that's about where my brain-gears just ground to a halt with a nasty scraping noise.

Worse yet? Next thing I know, the senior secretary's hovering next to my desk, looking shame-faced and handing me these tapes. So this lazy moo is not doing work, is actually threatening to sue or something if told to actually earn her fucking paycheque, and management is caving to this? How can you sue someone for trying to make you adhere to your contract? Surely they should be suing the lazy moo for breach of contract, or at the very least sacking her. One does not do one's job? One should not keep one's job. And yet.

Between this, various management-related idiocy and the fact that apparently the medical secretaries at this hospital are being called stupid and being blamed for everything that goes wrong from the asinine and constantly breaking new computer system to patient services not getting patients booked according to need? I'm so glad I don't work there permanently. I mean, really. I can't take the back-biting, bitchery, yelling, stupidity and hobbling by management fiat anymore. The place went entirely to hell when I left, and I should be very, very glad I got out when I did.

Honest to fuckery, what a mess.

Comments

[nitebytes.livejournal.com]

Any management vacancies there?
You could do them all a favour, take over and fix the bullshit from inside? (j/k)
I'm amazed that lazymoo(tm) hasn't had a disciplinary for being, well, lazy. Sounds like the management don't have the stones.
Shame.

Suing and Sacking the Cow

[navytron89.livejournal.com]

Not surprising nowadays considering that people seem to sue at the drop of a hat over some seemingly slight that they think offends them.

For example right now Wikipedia is being sued by a publist that is upset because she's listed as the worst possible publist and she's been critized as being as dumb as box of rocks. the EFF.org and Wiki is fighting the challenge as freedom of speech and also the blogger's rights of free speech and critizism.

Personally I'd say sack the bitch and when the courts ask why, simply its she failed to complete her end of the contractual agreement. Duh, I know that they have a book called a 1,000 Excuses and how to get a way with things. But seriously this twit should be sacked on principal of failure to perform. If someone in my job field fails to perform they get extra duty as punishment or other little nasty things like pay reduction. So firing her seems like the normal response unless, she's got something hanging over the managements heads as blackmail to keep her job. If she blackmailing them, then why is she even at the job unless there is a other reason like she's a governmental snitch who's keeping tabs on the employees for the government?

More thoughts on the lazy moo

[navytron89.livejournal.com]

I've been reading Stephen Clarke's book "Talk to the Snail" which is how to understand and deal with the French. The Second Commandment is " Thou shall not Work" which deals with the 35 hour work day of the French employees. Governmental employees are the worst as they seem to feel they don't have to work, just show up and get paid for being there. She maybe a Fonctionnaire secretary, so she believes in their work style and ethic which she's just about useless to that department.