Our facility fired an employee 3 months ago. She was not under my supervision as she was in another department. She was very passive aggressive, argued with everyone, thought nothing of arguing with me over medical issues about residents, even tho she has no medical training .She'd fight with the counselors, cooks, everything.She was one of these who would get on the internet and get just enough info to be dangerous. She kept a record of all our "sins" meaning when we didnt agree with her. Staff meeting were horrible and we learned to censor ourselves because if you said the sky was blue she would fight with you about it. FINALLY her supervisor canned her, after the millionth time she brought something up that happened "6 months ago". I was pretty sure we hadnt heard the end of her, and sure enough, she called me at home on the 4th of July. i was not there...she left a message that she was putting in a call to someone on the board at our facility but thought she should call me first. i have no intention of calling her back, esp. since she was never my subordinate. But she is up to something for sure. She'll get no satisfaction with our board but I wonder next if she'll go to our regulatory agency.
Heres what I want to know. Has anyone had this experience....that a vindictive ex employee tries to cause trouble in the agency? Are the health departments, nursing boards etc. good at sorting out legit from specious reports? We run a tight, clean ship here, so I have no worries that anything would be found, but the time it would take to counter her accusations would be ridiculous.
It has worked at some facilities I have worked at. When the person is let go, they have to turn in their name badge, which has their picture on it, and most systems that print out your badge, stores your picture in the computer. So security has their badge or picture in the database and can print it out and post it saying "If you see this person call security ASAP". One place has a former RN's badge saying she is banned from the premises unless she is there for medical reasons, and to call the cops if she sets foot on the property.
We had to do that with one of our technicians a couple years ago, although it wasn't so much her as her boyfriend, which was the main reason she was fired. So who does she send in to pick up some paperwork? That boyfriend. I went into the back room because I for one did not want to be in the line of fire when he started shooting, which thankfully never happened.
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We had to do that with one of our technicians a couple years ago, although it wasn't so much her as her boyfriend, which was the main reason she was fired. So who does she send in to pick up some paperwork? That boyfriend.
I went into the back room because I for one did not want to be in the line of fire when he started shooting, which thankfully never happened.