Cute things manager's say

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Woke up this afternoon to a call from my manager....."can you attend a new computer class from 1-5 today before your 7pm to 7am shift? Or how about 8AM to 12noon inbetween 12 hour shifts tomorrow?"

:roll

My response...."umm....NO. Your poor planning is not my problem."

Children say the cutest things.

Specializes in Emergency/Critical Care Transport.

When I retired from my full time paramedic job, my manager, a huge bureaucratic weasel if ever there was one took me out for lunch and an exit interview to discuss my "experiences" in EMS, over the course of the meal I proceeded to outline the various problems that made the job difficult, many of which had been identified ad nauseum over the 20 years I worked there but had never been address. He was concerned because after nearly twenty years of losing only one person every five or so years, the department had lost 17 in less than a years time. After I finished he leaned back and said very straight faced,

"Well, that sounds like sour grapes. You've never really been a team player."

I leaned back and smiled as well and told him. "Ah yes, "sour grapes" "team player", the battlecries of bureaucrats who can't admit that their plans have failed."

He just sat there with blank look on his face. To this day I am sure he had no idea what I was telling him. Which is why he was removed from office soon after I retired. He probably doesn't know why that happened either. :chuckle

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I had an idiot NM who decided to leave her mngr position and work the floor because "I need to simplify my life."

She brought her newborn granddaughter to the unit with her, and stayed in the conference room with the door closed all day.

She put all duties and pt care on the LPN she was with that day. The LPN left in tears. The third day on the "floor" she actually came out of the office to care for pts. That day, SHE left in tears. Adm actually gave her back her job as NM.

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Yesterday, my NM actually said to me "This unit is probably one of easiest units in the world to work on." I almost fell over!

I did tell her. "I disagree. When I finish 12 hrs on this unit, I'm exhausted and my entire body hurts. I'm so whipped, I can't even make dinner when I get home."

She had nothing more to say. She's usually a pretty decent human being, but this comment was just idiotic.

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
Originally posted by Medic946RN

"Well, that sounds like sour grapes. You've never really been a team player."

I leaned back and smiled as well and told him. "Ah yes, "sour grapes" "team player", the battlecries of bureaucrats who can't admit that their plans have failed."

He just sat there with blank look on his face. To this day I am sure he had no idea what I was telling him. Which is why he was removed from office soon after I retired. He probably doesn't know why that happened either. :chuckle

:rotfl: :roll :chuckle I LOVE it!!

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How many of us have gone to NMs with concerns over short staffing, no supplies, no meds and any number of other issues and been handed that tired, old line:

"Just do the best you can."

I wish I could just smack the next boss that repeats that useless phrase to me.

I think that phrase should be printed on the work name-badges of every NM.

i.e.

WeWantYour$$$ Health Care Corp.

Sally Jones, RN

Nurse Manager

"Just do the best you can"

Here's one for the floor nurses-

WeWantYour$$$ Health Care Corp.

Susie Smith, RN

Registered Nurse

"No good deed goes unpunished"

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Specializes in Neuro Critical Care.

The travel assignment I am currently on (but almost done with thank God) has a wonderful manager who can't seem to tell the truth. My interview went like this:

1) night shift ratio was 6-7:1 with a secretary/tech...actually it is 8-9:1 with no tech

2) all self-scheduling...I haven't been able to schedule a single shift

3) doctors are approachable and residents cover the floor...doctors are rude and the residents pass patients off to each other until you are frustrated beyond belief

The comment was also made that our end-of-life patients weren't dying fast enough and were going to lose their private room.

The funny thing is everyone was surprised when I declared this my worst travel assignment. :roll

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Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.
Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse

How many of us have gone to NMs with concerns over short staffing, no supplies, no meds and any number of other issues and been handed that tired, old line: "Just do the best you can."[END QUOTE]

Oh my word, that is my last manager to a TEE. As she left early on Friday afternoons. And it is one of the many reasons I left that place!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse

How many of us have gone to NMs with concerns over short staffing, no supplies, no meds and any number of other issues and been handed that tired, old line:

"Just do the best you can."

How about "we'll just have to be creative". We've have a very critical shortage on night shift on my unit right now as several contracts have ended and they were not budgeted to be replaced. It's the hieght of the busy season in Florida. Management's response was "we'll just have to be creative".

Well how's this for creativity: get those scrubs out of the closet, the manager's are all working the floor tonight!

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
Well how's this for creativity: get those scrubs out of the closet, the manager's are all working the floor tonight!

:roll :roll :roll :chuckle :rotfl: :rotfl:

Tweety's not forgetting sjoe's sig line!

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Overheard "We have the best staffing in the city". by NM

I tripped and nearly dropped a lunch tray.

Tarot says "If ignorance is bliss, then folly to be wise-says the fool".

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Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.
Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse

How many of us have gone to NMs with concerns over short staffing, no supplies, no meds and any number of other issues and been handed that tired, old line:

"Just do the best you can."

How 'bout no pillows?

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Due to circumstances I had to have a coworker put my letter of resignation in my NM's mail box. Friday I went in for my night shift (7p-7a) and found that my NM was still there. She saw me and said "I heard you are leaving us."...Did my letter of resignation tell you this, or are the voices back? Ahhhh but it get's better...So I tell her I am going travelin' and that I have wanted to do this since I was still in school, etc. etc. Her response: "Oh, I thought you hated working here." She must have reached deep within her rectum to pull that one out.:eek:

And then there was the NM from my first job as an RN. As I've mentioned before I had a not so positive experience, involving a cannibal for charge nurse, and being sexually harassed, and having my complaint swept under the carpet so to speak. So it's the 2nd to last day of my 2 week notice and I had decided I was not going to come in for my last day since the NM did not see fit to ask why I was leaving, wish me luck, apologize, tell me to get bent, nothing--I was shown how valuable I was to my unit. So she comes up to me that morning before i leave and says that she thought I was supposed to work that night; that she thought I was scheduled. So all this time and all she can say is that I'm supposed to show up. I said..."no, you thought wrong, I'm not going to be here." and turned away and left.

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I've been a nurse manager for 14 years and I love it because of the opportunity to mentor staff. I have also been staff and have wanted to write a book titled "Stupid Things Leadership Do and Say." I'll never forget a former DON saying to me "My nurses take care of the patients and my job is to take care of my nurses." I follow that. NMs...treat your nurses with respect and common sense and you'll get the same in return. A happy nurse means a happy patient.

Keep the faith staff nurses! There are managers out there who have a brain, a concience and a heart.

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