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May. 27th, 2008 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenThings that happened today which I shall now get off my chest.
1. Dear Person A Who Works At My Company: The words "What are you doing this week? I assume nothing since [your boss] is out of town." are stunningly incorrect. My boss, in fact, left me with many things he wanted me to handle while he was out of town, and I was in fact in the middle of the first of many on the list when you forcibly volunteered me to help out a department I'm not even in. I don't appreciate your overall attitude that I have nothing to do even when my boss is around, nor do I appreciate being taken for granted as your minion to put wherever you like. Likewise I don't appreciate how you went to your boss (who outranks mine twice over) to make sure that I got yanked off the actual, interesting, challenging albeit time-consuming things (ergo, perfect for that rare time when I have an entire week of uninterrupted working) I had on my To Do list this week for a job that you and everyone else has described as tedious, boring, and would probably be shoved off on an intern only our summer interns haven't arrived yet. No love, me.
2. Dear Person B Who Works At My Company: First of all, see above re: I have work to do this week. In fact, read it twice because I have everything I was assigned by our mutual boss plus everything that got dumped on me by Person A. So no, I do not have the time nor ability to drop everything I'm doing in order to do you a "personal favor" which, after I realized you weren't joking, really did turn out to be driving you to the train station. I appreciate how you dropped it fairly quickly after I told you no, but WTF was in your head that you thought my job description included being your personal taxi service?
3. Dear Doctor's Office: When you left me a reminder about my appointment last week, I assumed that your mention of "Don't forget that you need to fast for your bloodwork" was due to your usual level of incompetance with all things administrative. I realize now that in fact you were ignoring my stated reason for coming in (thyroid check) in order to put me down for tests that, while they did include the thyroid check, were also apparently whatever the hell you felt like (five additional whatever the Hells, give or take). Now if this was a standard test that my insurance would've covered regardless (i.e. it's all covered under one single code) then you should tell me that and I would've certainly been happy to let you do them since the blood was being drawn anyway. But since that wasn't mentioned I'm left to assume that they weren't, and in which case WTF with trying to add tests on without telling me? (And if they are included, WTF with not saying "Next time be aware that if you fast we can include these tests"?)
4. Still with the Doctor's Office: I know you need to find out if there's any changes to my record. I know that far too many patients do not think to volunteer important information. However you may wish to instruct your staff that the question is not "Are you taking any medication?" when yes, in fact I am since your office prescribed it and the entire fucking POINT of the annual thyroid check is to renew my fucking prescription. I don't demand that everyone in your office have my records memorized. I'll even forgive the receptionist for not knowing what my appointment is for (though ... why? Is the calendar on her computer purely for decoration?) But as I progress further into the layers of medical professionals I'd like to at least be entertained with the illusion that at least one of the people treating me has skimmed my record for any information that relates to why I'm in the office that day and/or what information about me needs to be known to make sure nothing happens in the office that might accidentally kill me.
5. Related to that, part of the reason why I didn't fast? Other than not needing to fast for a thyroid test? Is that one of the meds that I take first thing in the morning, a med which is listed on my records and helps me do things like not die, makes me sick if I don't have food soon after. Considering that when I worked my previous job I damn well made sure I flagged things on patient records so that the doc there and I could be aware of problems like that? Kinda shows just how much your staff sucks.
6. And least you get too cocky, Dear Doc Himself, the time to tell me "So last year your bloodwork showed your cholestoral as being a little high"? Was LAST FUCKING YEAR. And "Thyroid issues can affect your cholestoral" should've been a lesson back when I started on the thyroid medication. But given how long it took you and all your collegues to tell me that the medication is damn near useless unless you take it on an empty stomach (which, oh yeah, NONE of you did since I had to READ IT IN A BOOK YEARS LATER) I'm not really setting my hopes here too high. Instead I just sit and wonder what other fun correlations might be going on that I don't know about. Maybe there's a food out there that's now totally poisonous to me, but I won't know until I eat it! That'll be fun!
7. I'd ask if anyone wants to place bets as to whether you or anyone on your staff even remembers to tell me the results of my bloodwork when they come in, but it would be vastly unfair given how well I know the odds on "Never, or until I call and ask, and even then it's debatable."
8. So yeah... now that this check, which I really needed compared against a baseline of the previous year, is done? And your bigger office didn't include hiring more staff to reduce the stupidity? This would be me getting more pro-active on looking for a new doctor's office.
And I'm done. Ahhhhhhh.
1. Dear Person A Who Works At My Company: The words "What are you doing this week? I assume nothing since [your boss] is out of town." are stunningly incorrect. My boss, in fact, left me with many things he wanted me to handle while he was out of town, and I was in fact in the middle of the first of many on the list when you forcibly volunteered me to help out a department I'm not even in. I don't appreciate your overall attitude that I have nothing to do even when my boss is around, nor do I appreciate being taken for granted as your minion to put wherever you like. Likewise I don't appreciate how you went to your boss (who outranks mine twice over) to make sure that I got yanked off the actual, interesting, challenging albeit time-consuming things (ergo, perfect for that rare time when I have an entire week of uninterrupted working) I had on my To Do list this week for a job that you and everyone else has described as tedious, boring, and would probably be shoved off on an intern only our summer interns haven't arrived yet. No love, me.
2. Dear Person B Who Works At My Company: First of all, see above re: I have work to do this week. In fact, read it twice because I have everything I was assigned by our mutual boss plus everything that got dumped on me by Person A. So no, I do not have the time nor ability to drop everything I'm doing in order to do you a "personal favor" which, after I realized you weren't joking, really did turn out to be driving you to the train station. I appreciate how you dropped it fairly quickly after I told you no, but WTF was in your head that you thought my job description included being your personal taxi service?
3. Dear Doctor's Office: When you left me a reminder about my appointment last week, I assumed that your mention of "Don't forget that you need to fast for your bloodwork" was due to your usual level of incompetance with all things administrative. I realize now that in fact you were ignoring my stated reason for coming in (thyroid check) in order to put me down for tests that, while they did include the thyroid check, were also apparently whatever the hell you felt like (five additional whatever the Hells, give or take). Now if this was a standard test that my insurance would've covered regardless (i.e. it's all covered under one single code) then you should tell me that and I would've certainly been happy to let you do them since the blood was being drawn anyway. But since that wasn't mentioned I'm left to assume that they weren't, and in which case WTF with trying to add tests on without telling me? (And if they are included, WTF with not saying "Next time be aware that if you fast we can include these tests"?)
4. Still with the Doctor's Office: I know you need to find out if there's any changes to my record. I know that far too many patients do not think to volunteer important information. However you may wish to instruct your staff that the question is not "Are you taking any medication?" when yes, in fact I am since your office prescribed it and the entire fucking POINT of the annual thyroid check is to renew my fucking prescription. I don't demand that everyone in your office have my records memorized. I'll even forgive the receptionist for not knowing what my appointment is for (though ... why? Is the calendar on her computer purely for decoration?) But as I progress further into the layers of medical professionals I'd like to at least be entertained with the illusion that at least one of the people treating me has skimmed my record for any information that relates to why I'm in the office that day and/or what information about me needs to be known to make sure nothing happens in the office that might accidentally kill me.
5. Related to that, part of the reason why I didn't fast? Other than not needing to fast for a thyroid test? Is that one of the meds that I take first thing in the morning, a med which is listed on my records and helps me do things like not die, makes me sick if I don't have food soon after. Considering that when I worked my previous job I damn well made sure I flagged things on patient records so that the doc there and I could be aware of problems like that? Kinda shows just how much your staff sucks.
6. And least you get too cocky, Dear Doc Himself, the time to tell me "So last year your bloodwork showed your cholestoral as being a little high"? Was LAST FUCKING YEAR. And "Thyroid issues can affect your cholestoral" should've been a lesson back when I started on the thyroid medication. But given how long it took you and all your collegues to tell me that the medication is damn near useless unless you take it on an empty stomach (which, oh yeah, NONE of you did since I had to READ IT IN A BOOK YEARS LATER) I'm not really setting my hopes here too high. Instead I just sit and wonder what other fun correlations might be going on that I don't know about. Maybe there's a food out there that's now totally poisonous to me, but I won't know until I eat it! That'll be fun!
7. I'd ask if anyone wants to place bets as to whether you or anyone on your staff even remembers to tell me the results of my bloodwork when they come in, but it would be vastly unfair given how well I know the odds on "Never, or until I call and ask, and even then it's debatable."
8. So yeah... now that this check, which I really needed compared against a baseline of the previous year, is done? And your bigger office didn't include hiring more staff to reduce the stupidity? This would be me getting more pro-active on looking for a new doctor's office.
And I'm done. Ahhhhhhh.
