fat troll manager

I am filled with dread! I have had a full seven days off and my return to work looms near. I don't hate the unit where I work, I hate the floating to another unit. The step-down units are horrid and as bad as I remember from my last assignment with this hospital.

The units are unorganized and poorly staffed. The charting system has been bloated with so many mandated requirements that it takes forever. Equipment does not work and the whole system there is flawed.

A week ago I was working in one of the nasty step-down areas. I arrived late because there were mixups in the staffing department. Anyway, I am there working a few hours when this woman approaches me. I amtold later she was the manager of the unit.

This woman says, "do you have room XX?"

me, "yes I do, what cha need?"

her: "we seem to have a problem."

me: "okay?"

her: "you have failed to fill out your hourly rounding sheets!"

me: "what is that?"

her: "Excuse me! We had a meeting about this just this morning where all of YOU were instructed of the importance of completing the hourly rounding sheets!"

Unit Secretary: "He was not here this morning - staffing had him all over the place"

her: "oh! Well you should still know about the forms they are required throughout the hospital."

me: "I am not from this hospital. I am a traveller and I floated here and we do not use them in the unit where I come from."

her: (in a very condesending tone) "and just where would that be?"

Me: "I am ICU we pretty much are in the rooms more often than every hour."

It was all I could do not to get up in this plump woman's face and tell her to get the fuck away from me. The hourly rounds are a fucking joke! The stupid rounding is just another idea of lazy administration thinking they are being proactive. The truth is the nurses fill the form in at one time at the end of the shift - effective!

The form itself has every hour listed to the left and about 10 boxes to be completed each hour. The first box is initial, the second is time! WTF? The time is preprinted.

So, after talking to this frumpy ass woman I went back and placed little smiley faces on my forms - if I am floated on my last day I will spell out fuck you on each line!