Not allowed to use the force.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

In our hospital we in the Information Services Department are expected to treat the other departments like they are customers. We write up work order tickets, bill their departments for out time.

And the way that some of the other people in our hospital treat us we might as well be another company altogether.

Case in point was today's shift.

I'm up in pediatrics working on a computer that is overheating. Not surprising since as with any place that has carpeting there is going to be dust. And inside of a computer this dust forms not the meager and humble dust bunny, but instead gives rise to the Dust Rhino!

So I have his one computer pulled apart and am cleaning out everything and replacing the clapped out CPU Fan.

While working on that I'm asked to check out a printer that's complaining about the network card not being connected. Well I just go downstairs and grab another card to replace it as they are prone to failure. As I start working on it I realize that I need my screwdriver and it is not with me.

Yup...left it on the desk where the computer is getting a new CPU Fan. Bugger.

Doing my usual (and I have no idea how long I've had this habit nor do I really pay any attention to it) bit I extend my hand and attempt to "reach out with my thoughts" and to use the force. Damn...didn't work this time either. So I get up and go and get the driver and come back.

One of the nursing supervisors gets rather annoyed that I did this and starts reading me the riot act about it. About how I should have just gotten up and gotten it instead of wasting precious time.

Now it's not like I concentrated on the screwdriver for an hour to try and "force pull" it to my hand. It's not even like I took a full minute. I looked for and found the driver, extended my hand towards it, shrugged and went and got it. It took more time to write that sentence than I took with the whole "Jedi" thing.

Three seconds, five tops.

I looked at the nursing supervisor and said "It's something I do to keep from doing something really unprofessional like cursing at it. If you'd prefer I could swear in front of these children, but I'd rather not have it come to that." finished what I was doing and went back to my office.

The nursing supervisor just cat-butt-faced me and turned sharply and stomped away.

[Hanzoku]

Oh no! How dare you waste three seconds of a precious, precious minute instead of losing your temper, spending more then three seconds swearing at it and teaching the kids a few new words!



Make sure to bill her department for the card for the printer as well?

[bainsidhe]

Sorry about that, next time I'll just finish the job I was in the middle of before I got interrupted to work on your printer issue. I work faster with fewer interruptions.

[thehuckster]

One of the nursing supervisors gets rather annoyed that I did this and starts reading me the riot act about it. About how I should have just gotten up and gotten it instead of wasting precious time.

"Precious time"? Was there a dying patient on the bed whose life depended on this printer?

[lordlundar]

I'm up in pediatrics working on a computer that is overheating. Not surprising since as with any place that has carpeting there is going to be dust. And inside of a computer this dust forms not the meager and humble dust bunny, but instead gives rise to the Dust Rhino!

Yup, I know that one. One site a co worker wanted to see if the exhaust venting on the electric drill we were using could blow the dust around in a machine by aiming it through the computer's vent.

An open machine.

An open machine on my lap that I was in the process of removing the hard drive of.

Yeah, we found out that the answer to that was "yes" as I got a nice cloud of dust right in the face.

[Gravekeeper]

Ah, Anal Rentation(tm), is there nothing you can't complain about?

Probably just as well, if I could actually use the Force at work every call I took would end with: "Oh, hi! I was just calling f-gh-...hurk!<cough>...hel<gasp>...<wheeze>.......<thud >"

[Ironclad Alibi]

While working on that I'm asked to check out a printer that's complaining about the network card not being connected.

The nursing supervisor just cat-butt-faced me and turned sharply and stomped away.

The next time the nursing supervisor asks you to do something like that, just remind them to follow proper procedure and submit a work order, and it will get done in turn without having to resort to the force.

On the other hand, you could have tried using the schwartz instead.

[gerund]

On the other hand, you could have tried using the schwartz instead.

My schwartz is bigger than your schwartz.

[MoonCat]

That nursing supervisor is a person with not enough to do.

There's a lot of that going around.

[Mr.Customer]

You should have just looked her in the eyes and said "You have failed me for the last time" and then tried to force choke her

[dragon_wings]

You should have just looked her in the eyes and said "You have failed me for the last time" and then tried to force choke her

This response is sooo full of win!

[Pagan]

You should have just looked her in the eyes and said "You have failed me for the last time" and then tried to force choke her

This response is sooo full of win!

I second that!

[BeenThereDoneThat]

For Halloween you should definitely dress as Darth Vader and go pay the nursing supervisor a visit...breathe menacingly for a minute or two...

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I suppose I should say something about "I find your lack of faith...disturbing"?

[Jay 2K Winger]

I suppose I should say something about "I find your lack of faith...disturbing"?

Beat me to it, Mongo.