What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

[SharonH, RN]

I don't know what made me remember this but I had a coworker once with whom I had developed(I thought) something of a rapport. Well one day we were in the nurses' station and I jokingly made a comment about her not working hard. I forget my exact words but it was something along the lines of are you hardly working or working hard. You know that lame joke, well not that lame but it was harmless like that. Well a few days later, guess what I got invited to a meeting with her and the charge nurse to discuss my attempt to slander her! She said that she felt like I had a low opinion of her as a nurse and my comments left it open for people to believe that she was not a hard worker. And I was attempting to destroy her reputation as a nurse. As broadsided as I was, I apologized profusely for my faux-pas but she wasn't in a forgiving mood. So *shrug* what could I do? Obviously we weren't as good of friends as I thought or she might have given me the benefit of the doubt. Also she must have had a massively low self-esteem or insecurities if she was that bothered by my little joke. I just moved on. I can remember being quite annoyed at first but it's funny now.

[abbaking]

Some male nurses on the ICU across from my unit wrote me up to HR for harrassment. They felt that me looking down the hallway was inappropriate.

But karma is sweet - the same guy who made the complaint got fired and ARRESTED for sexually molesting a patient - haha!

Hope you like being bubba's sex toy!

[rn865]

One coworker has been complaining about anything and everything I do, but the silliest is: I pee a lot. Yeah, right! I use the toilet lesser times than when she goes on a smoke break! (small facility, a lot of downtime). Her biggest complaint was I earned more than her even though she's been there for 4 years while I have been there 1.5 years. I have a BSN and she has a 10-month or so Medical Assisting course. Go figure.

[Poi Dog]

That I didn't stop bathing a patient to fall over backward for a visiting family member.

[pixie120]

I didn't perceive a son rubbing lotion on his mother's feet as sexual abuse, nor did I call the police or the state. Luckily, we were in full survey, so state DID get that complaint, lol.

[pixie120]

I had a formal sit-down in the in the educators' office because "people can not tell when I'm thinking when they look at me". I guess it's my fault their ESP is off :)

OK!! face time with new administrator because of "the look(s) on my face". Not any particular look, looks or timeframes, I guess that I just plain HAVE a face, that has a look on it, lol

[pixie120]

on my first nursing assignment after graduation, i was mentored by a very knowlegeable, usually kind nurse who was, i think, a contemporary of clara barton.... or maybe even an army nurse at valley forge?? it offended her greatly that i never polished my %^&* shoelaces when i polished my

shoes. each time, she'd let me know she'd mentioned it to the head nurse. i guess she must have mentioned it a lot because that was the only criticism on my whole evaluation!

now it's simply a silly memory, but back then it rankled. a. lot.

ok, this was not when i was a nurse, and it was on my evaluation, when i was at the sheriff's department. i smelled musty, and apparently took my showers in the evenings rather than the mornings. the sgt was female, gay and we all shared the same locker room. she apparently was sniffing on me daily. so....i changed at home from that point forward and it never came up again, lol. dog was trying to date me seems like. i was highly offended yet found it pretty hilarious. it didn't affect my pay grade so..... (it apparently affected hers as she was transferred shortly after i threw a fit in her bosses office about that personal dig).

[pixie120]

I once gave bad customer service to a residents family member. One who financially abused her. Her chart was red flagged and everything for this person. He called and wanted information about her shingles, and I politley advised him to call his sister as she was the contact person. Within five min. I was in the admins office with the DON (who said nothing) because he called the admin about this and I should have refered the caller to him the admin. Sure, if he calls on a weekend or middle of the night I'll give him your home phone!

Another time I got in reported for being "rude" for asking a family member to call her sister, the point person which the four daughters of this one lady agreed would be the point person while the main daughter was on vacation. That was after I'd alredy given infomation to two other family members about how she was doing. (Whole family had permission to abtain infomation)

Wow, I've got to stop talking on the phone to family members.

YEp, once suspended and investigated for "verbally abusing a resident's daughter's friend" during a care conference. Tee hee. Needless to say, I didn't return after I was cleared. After all ...I was innocent.

So, now just a few days ago, the gal that suspended me (and took 5 days to figure out if I was innocent, never mind the regulations say you have to abuse the Resident, who wasn't present) (and never mind there were 5 people present at the care conference, and never mind the complaint didn't come till a month later, and was quite bogus to begin with, even a 6 year old could have told her that) asked a mutual friend if I were still mad at her?

Huh? I never worked another minute for you, what do YOU think? Maybe if you KNEW how to conduct investigations, that take less than 5 days, ? and maybe if you hadn't have at that same moment decided to write me up for being "insubordinate..." for telling her I couldn't do all the things she needed me to do that day? and funny (Karma) she suspended me right in the middle of doing 3 new admits (part of what I was trying to tell her I couldn't do all by myself, making me insubordinate") and THEN, what does she say when she calls to tell me she cleared me of the abuse charge? "Can you come to work today, we have a lot of admits today?". Well......no,......I am in the middle of something....and I need to meet with you and your boss prior to simply "returning", at which it gave me immense pleasure to hand in my immediate resignation. SO....am I still mad? Are we in kindergarton?

[bradons]

I have had 3 complaints about myself.

The odd part was all three complaints were when I was away.

The best one was when I was out of the province for 9 days.

The others were when I was off and never saw any of the pts in the complaints. Weird too because theres only 3 males on the ward and its hard to confuse us.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

The complaint wasn't entirely silly, but how I responded to it was, in a way.

I had a very irate patient who claimed she was going to contact everyone all the way up to the White House about how I "treated" her. (I don't want to get into the details...she was being ridiculous and I ended up being short with her).

Anyway, I had all but forgotten about her when my manager called me onto the carpet. She asked me if I remembered "Mrs. Brown in room 18A." Well, yeah, I had, I told her the entire story. She read me the email sent to her by the patient's daughter and I found it strange that the biggest part of her complaint involved something I didn't recall at all. I admit my part in the event, then went about my way.

That's when I realized...this wasn't the same lady who disliked my care...she just had a very similar name and had been in the same room (they also had a similar medical history). The lady that complained about me...well, I thought she loved me! We bonded over our common ancestry, had a long discussion about pajamas, and her husband thanked me multiple times for my care. Turns out the lady who disliked me never did say anything about it.

I've decided I dislike that room, because I also had to write an essay about why I called a code on a patient in that bed who was in respiratory arrest. Seriously.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i've just been reported for "refusing to co-sign a narcotic waste". interesting thing is, i was on vacation that day and hadn't been back to work yet!

[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

Back before nursing school, I was once reprimanded by a boss because when he would ask me "How are you?", I would generally respond with something like "I'm great, how are you?" Apparently he took offense to me turning the question around and asking him how he was doing! Never experienced something like that before. From that time on, I just replied "Fine" and left it at that.

As a school nurse, I once had a parent complain to the principal that I followed the district's medication policy. Yes, she knew the policy and stated it as such. She was not complaining about the policy. She was complaining that I followed it. I still have not figured that one out...I guess she thought the rules should not apply to her and her child?

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

Night staff complained once that I was 'too efficient' on afternoon shift, and didn't leave them any work to do.

I didn't know WHAT to say to that 'complaint'.