My director and the director of our trauma department HATE each other. However, me and the trauma director get along very well. She buys soaps from me, and I also gave her my whipped body butter in the past.
Since I have started first shift, she absolutely loves me (because the previous girl was a disaster). She even sent an email to my director on my behalf singing my praises after they had a trauma meeting that apparently featured me and how well the CT department is running these days, which the email is now posted on our departments "wall of fame". I have her cell phone number for pete's sake, and I sent her pictures that I took at out pediatric halloween party...pictures were of her dressed as Jane Jetson.
It is very well known that the ER CT at my hospital is a one-man-show. Shouldn't be that way, but it's corporate, so it is what it is.
But even my director made a comment one day "don't know what you are doing, but keep it up keeping her out of my hair".
I'm not doing anything spectacular, I just get along with everybody in different departments, and I work hard and keep delays to a minimum. Ummm, on the 4th of July the CHIEF trauma surgeon walked in with mango upside down cake that his wife made (yummmmm), because he knew I was getting killed all day and saved me a piece.
FRIDAY, I was hanging out at our other scanner with my boss, and my director walked in in a panic. Trauma director sent her a nasty-gram text message asking her to explain why a CT exam wasn't completed (on my shift) "when it was clearly ordered stat".
I had to run down to the ER to find my paperwork and run it back upstairs. In my handwriting it had a note (with a time and who I spoke to), that the patient was in the OR and PACU (recovery room) would call me when the patient was out of surgery. It was 16 minutes after the order was placed. There was nothing abnormal about any of it. A patient goes from the trauma bay straight to the OR sometimes, and PACU brings them to me after. Its just how it works.
AND I JUST SENT HER PICTURES OF HER IN HER CUTE HALLOWEEN COSTUME FROM OUR PEDIATRIC PARADE!
So while I am standing there on the defensive with my director trying to explain, I took a picture of the order with my handwritten notes and proceeded to send it to the trauma director who I have a direct line with...nothing mean or nasty (although I WAS super mad), and my boss said to let it go and not to get involved.
Well I can't do that LOL. I did let it go with the directors head butting each other, but I also sent a text to the trauma doc who was on call that day, and was the actual one doing the surgery. So now he is mad (cause me and him are buddies). I told him to keep my name out of it. He cancelled the order for the CT and said that the resident put it in and it wasn't even necessary, at least not until the next day because he was too critical.
But I'm so mad that this same person was like "oh, take my picture in my cute costume and send it to me" also complained knowing that I was the tech that day. Kinda hurt too. I know that once they get to the "ivory tower" level, they become jerks sometimes. Guess I know where I really stand with her.
Later, the doc sent me a text that is a director fight and to stay out of it: it has nothing to do with me.
Ok, whatever. Christmas is coming up NO SOAP FOR YOU! Now I don't even know how to talk to her. I see her and I'm like (GRRRR) "good morning
". "Oh Kim, do you have any christmas soaps yet? I need more lotion, let me give you money for it I need a gallon."
. Are you sure you can't just reinstall the BB calculator, and log back in to see if your recipes are there?
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