Evil secretaries from hell...Do you know one as well?

[Gr8Dane]

I work 7pm-7am and this evil secretary that works days comes in 30 minutes early, starts yapping about crap being out of place from our chart checks, and demands her "spot" where other nurses may had done their chart checks at 30 minutes before she can even clock in or be there for that matter.

And she looks evil/mean everytime I see her in her black framed thick glasses :angryfire

Then she thinks shes better then all the LPN's because shes "doing her pre-reqs" to get into a RN program, which she has not even applied for yet lol.

When a doctor comes in shes as sweet as can be The doctors usually ignore her as shes very fake.

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

Yes, I've known several territorial and crabby unit secretaries in my time. If they are extremely efficient and otherwise communicative and helpful, I can easily tolerate their negative attributes though. If, on the other hand, they are lazy slackers who gab on the phone all day, then they drive me up the wall.

[gonzo1, ASN, RN]

Just one, on a travel assignment. I really let her upset me, make me cry. Now, I realize how stupid it was for me to be upset.

If she didn't like me, for whatever reason I didn't need to get upset. I realize now that I should have just killed her with kindness. She was mean because she was in horrible shape and probably had a rotten life.

Next time I encounter this I will take a different perspective and not take it personally.

It is true that the only person who can make you feel bad is yourself.

[RNperdiem, RN]

As long as the secretarial work gets done, I am fine.

Somedays even a grumpy secretary is better than no secretary at all.

I recently had a day with no secretary. Guess who has to answer all the phone calls for the 16 bed ICU and answer the door for visitors? There is nothing like an endlessly ringing phone when you are in an isolation room.