What are your breakroom or break time pet peeves? I bet stealing people's food is on top, but there is way more. I'll give mine to start:
1. There are a few chairs, to begin with, in the tiny breakroom. Your Target backpack DOES NOT require a chair. Put it on the floor or leave it in the car.
2. Headphones were invented I think in the 80s. I don't want to listen to your phone calls, music, or Youtube videos. Read or buy some headphones for 99 cents.
3. If you see me with my headphones or my face in a book that is a clear clue.
In addition to basically all of the above, I'm sick of eating my food with a poster of pressure ulcer staging, complete with photographs, right at eye level. I'm not a particularly squeamish person, but chances are I've probably done dressings on something like that before going on break; I don't want to see anymore.
What drives me crazy are people who treat the break room like a Holiday Inn. They grab some pillows and blankets and turn off all the lights to nap.
I have no problem with people who nap on their breaks, and I like to keep to myself while I'm on break, but I hate feeling obligated to eat lunch in complete silence and darkness. To add insult, the sleepers are sometimes still there when it's time for me to leave ...so were they even on "break" to begin with? Probably not.
Most of the other things people have mentioned bother me, too. I try to break alone anytime I can.
It's very distasteful when someone uses the bathroom to do 'stinky business using the nearby empl bathroom. It's one thing to just pee, but the if there's gassiness. Then if there's more 'solid business' to be managed .....
Hey, I know 'when you gotta go, you gotta go'. But some attempt at avoiding the BR at such a prime time is greatly appreciated.
What drives me crazy are people who treat the break room like a Holiday Inn. They grab some pillows and blankets and turn off all the lights to nap.
I have no problem with people who nap on their breaks, and I like to keep to myself while I'm on break, but I hate feeling obligated to eat lunch in complete silence and darkness. To add insult, the sleepers are sometimes still there when it's time for me to leave ...so were they even on "break" to begin with? Probably not.
Most of the other things people have mentioned bother me, too. I try to break alone anytime I can.
We have 6 chairs in our breakroom. One employee would use 3 as his bed. Awkward!
My clinic has a very large breakroom that, if it were full, would seat about 50 people. It has a big-screen television which is ALWAYS tuned to the Steve Wilkos show-- have you seen this horrible thing? It's families accusing one another of child molestation, generally, or other horrible crimes, publicly in front of a live audience. He gives them lie-detector tests and then they jump around and scream and cry. When I was a child, "Jerry Springer" was on TV, and this is in that same genre. It's awwwwful.
Steve Wilkos actually got his start as a "security" guy on Jerry Springer's show. Hot pile of garbage.
Heating up fish in the microwave, giving me grief over moving your bag from a chair so I can sit on it, not cleaning up after oneself, talking or watching videos on one's phone on speaker, pretty much everything everyone else already said.
Assuming EVS is going to clean up our mess in the breakroom. Worst is being shocked when you are told that is not their job or their priority. A few do come in and straighten up, which is cool and I am sure to thank them. But their main priority is to get the rooms clean for the next patient. That is WAY more important than cleaning up after someone who can't walk 2 feet or less to throw something away.
It's the cliquey crew who comes in and starts loudly yelling and laughing to the point where people already in the room can no longer hear one another and there was a good general discussion going between everyone. Ruins the whole vibe.
You can tell when the sports fanatic is on shift. They will have the game on in the breakroom and on the patient's TV after conning them into changing the channel.
Nurse "Hey man don't you want to watch the game?"
Patient: Meekly "Not really, I want to...."
Nurse: "Just let me turn it on for a second. It is a great game"
Me coming in:
"Why aren't you watching your favorite show?"
Patient: "Well so and so came in and he wanted to watch the game"
NightNerd, MSN, RN
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In addition to basically all of the above, I'm sick of eating my food with a poster of pressure ulcer staging, complete with photographs, right at eye level. I'm not a particularly squeamish person, but chances are I've probably done dressings on something like that before going on break; I don't want to see anymore.