best i quit or fired story

sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN · Sep 20, 2014

:) oh my gosh, going to be a good thread

westieluv · Sep 20, 2014

A new nurse at a facility that I used to work at just didn't "get it", even after many weeks of orientation. She was sassy, disrespectful to patients, and lazy. One day she called half an hour before her shift was to start and said she wasn't coming in that day or ever again. Then she proceeded to ask the CM if she could use her for a reference for future employment and if she knew how you go about getting unemployment. :sarcastic:

OnlinePersona, LPN · Sep 20, 2014

A new nurse at a facility that I used to work at just didn't "get it", even after many weeks of orientation. She was sassy, disrespectful to patients, and lazy. One day she called half an hour before her shift was to start and said she wasn't coming in that day or ever again. Then she proceeded to ask the CM if she could use her for a reference for future employment and if she knew how you go about getting unemployment.

Lawd have mercy.

if people share their experiences I will tell yall about my DON being escorted by the cops story :-)

meanmaryjean, DNP, RN · Sep 20, 2014

I've told this on another thread, but it REALLY needs repeating. I was house supervisor at a small, rural hospital the week of Thanksgiving.

Thanks giving Day, one of two ICU nurses calls off because 'her cat is missing'. Fast forward to Sunday. Same nurse calls off again. Cat has returned but seems 'emotionally needy' and she cannot leave it. ICU manager was sitting next to me at the time, I just put the phone on speaker and asked her to repeat what she had just said. It was awesome.

icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN · Sep 20, 2014

I was working nightshift with a bored goth girl CNA who got up off her chair at around 9:30 and said

"that's it, I'm done, I'm leaving."

A nurse coworker and I couldn't help laughing, waving good bye and my coworker called out "bye nice knowing you!"

It still makes me laugh ten years later.

Roman1 · Sep 20, 2014

In my previous career I was a vet tech. The hospital manager asked me to come in her office so I could be with her when she had to fire one of the guy's, who worked in the kennel. This guy had only been with the hospital 3 weeks, but had called off something like 4 shifts already and late numerous times, plus he seriously creeped everyone out. The manager fires him and he says ok, so how much are you giving me in severance pay. He was totally serious about this. I just walked out of the office smh.

firstinfamily, RN · Sep 20, 2014

When I was supervisor at a LTC facility I had a CNA call out because she was having her "cycle"!! In fact, she called out for an entire week because of her "cycle" I had never heard this excuse before and just wondered why she would think it was an excuse to call out??

meanmaryjean, DNP, RN · Sep 20, 2014

When I was supervisor at a LTC facility I had a CNA call out because she was having her "cycle"!! In fact, she called out for an entire week because of her "cycle" I had never heard this excuse before and just wondered why she would think it was an excuse to call out??

My daughter works with someone who spends one week a month moaning "Well, I'm hemorrhaging again!"

No Stars In My Eyes · Sep 21, 2014

When I was supervisor at a LTC facility I had a CNA call out because she was having her "cycle"!! In fact, she called out for an entire week because of her "cycle" I had never heard this excuse before and just wondered why she would think it was an excuse to call out??

Maybe her tribe stuck her in a menstrual hut because she was 'unclean'?

sjalv · Sep 21, 2014

I work at an Italian eatery that also does pizza delivery. There was this delivery driver who had recently been hired and he was just wasn't catching on. He was taking an exorbitant amount of time to make just one delivery, and he sucked at washing dishes (no idea why it's such a hard task to perform but apparently it is). It was about 10 minutes till close and he was out on a run when we got a call from a customer wanting to place a delivery. We had to take it because we were not yet closed, and when he got back about 30 minutes later seeing that we were technically closed but he had another delivery to run, he FREAKED OUT in the parking lot. He was like "God **** it, **** this place! **** pizza! **** that customer! I'M LEAVING!!!!" and got in his car and drove off. Unfortunately we had to call the police because he still had his money bag with him and would not answer our calls to return it to the restaurant.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Sep 21, 2014

I worked with an RT years ago who was scary. Not only did he take it upon himself to write "verbal orders" for Lasix or packed cells or whatever else HE thought the patient needed, he was once caught (or so the story goes) medicating a patient with some narcotics he found at the bedside. (Used to be you'd check out 10 mg. of morphine and give 2 mg. or 4 mg. or whatever the order was and keep the syringe so you could give more later.) Word was he was going to be fired . . . .

On the news one day, there's a "Breaking News!" story about a shooter perched on a bridge overlooking the highway and threatening to take pot shots at anyone exiting the highway towards the hospital. A helicopter zoomed in to show a picture of the "unidentified man." You guessed it. Our RT. Legend has it that his boss called him into a meeting immediately before the event, but it doesn't say (and the boss won't confirm or deny) whether they RT was fired prior to the event. He never came to work again.