Reprimanded for cleaning up after myself!!!

[AngelfireRN]

You know, I know I have had some complaints about this job, but what happened today takes the taco. My plant is closing ( I work occ), and as such, all the old medical records have to be shredded. I have been handling that. Gets a bit messy at times. I was tidying up today, sweeping up where all the paper crumples were around the shredder, and my sup walks by. By her reaction, you'd have thought I was running a meth lab in the middle of Medical.

"Don't do that!"

"What?"

"Don't sweep?"

"I'm just cleaning up my mess."

"Don't do that. Leave it for the janitor. They'll complain to the union about you doing their job!"

Now, I don't know about y'all, but I was taught to clean up after myself, not leave it for someone else to do. This is just the latest. This woman is not right. First the internet kafoffel, we are spending too much time one the net. Well, maybe that's bcause there is NOTHING TO DO. No one is getting hurt, thank mercy. What are we to do, sit here and stare at each other? Then the issue of talking. We can't have a simple conversation without this crazy person screaming from her office that we're too loud. I don't care how soft we talk, we're too loud.

I caught her whining to the plant doc about that, and told her in no uncertain terms that if she was going to say something about me, she would do well to say it to my face. Have not heard much else from her till today.

Seriously, is this not the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? Leave your mess so someone else can alean it up? It's not like I was cleaning the bathroom! Any idea on how to handle this? I seriously thought about tagging out the broom WARNING:NOT FOR CLEANING USE-TRANSPORTATION ONLY. I think that may be a bit much, though.

Thoughts?

[GooeyRN, ADN, BSN, CNA, LPN, RN]

FIL was reprimanded for picking up the piece of paper he threw that missed the trash basket.

[justme1972]

I agree it is ridiculous. BUT unions are very powerful in some areas, and I have heard of similar complaints. JOB SECURITY is a big issue. Think about it from a laid-off janitorial worker' viewpoint.

I second this...we have one union hospital in our area and it was made very clear to us not to change a trashcan, etc...call housekeeping for everything b/c they will complain to their union if you don't.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

Go get some of Echo Heron's books. Novel like stories that are related to your job, and probably you could read em on duty. If they say no to them get something by Suzanne Gordon, and if that doesn't work out something from your local law library about employment law.

Seriously- could you listen to taped lectures on duty (with earphones so your sensitive coworker doesn't mind). Label tapes as lectures and put what you want on them, but don't get caught dancing for heaven's sake.

There's a great book called Dealing With People You Can't Stand that would make GREAT at-work reading.

http://www.amazon.com/Dealing-People-You-Cant-Stand/dp/0071379444/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227396267&sr=1-1

[Roy Fokker, BSN, RN]

Thoughts?

:lol2: You have a humorous writing style. Thanks for the chuckle... :)

[AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Thanks, all. I'm just so over this place. Sup's nuttier than a pecan farm. Then, at times, she's all right. It's just that I'm so hyper and she's so NOT.

What gripes me is the whole reading thing...she goes in her office and sleeps and reads magazines, but we can't. I HATE a double standard. I mean, the woman even had the gall to take away my clinical papers one day when I was working on them ON MY BREAK!

"Let's find you something else to do."

My consolation is, I graduate soon, my last clinical rotation was today, and I got a stellar report.

I'll keep you posted on any other lovelies that come up.

P.S. Thanks for the compliment, Roy!!!

[curlilockz]

That's funny. I'm a PCT in the summers and our census was low. So I picked up those antimicrobial wipes we have (I can't remember what it's called, but it's very strong) and cleaned the siderails in the halls. Our supervisor thought that was great. There's a lot of things I do to help out housekeeping if there's nothing going on, they usually are really thankful for the help. But I don't think they are from a union.