'I’m not clocked in yet': Coworker tries to use employee, boss takes coworker's side, employee maliciously complies

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    Property - "Boss says I can't come in early to set up my cart. So I come in right at clock in"
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    Font - Boss says I can't come in early to set up my cart. So I come in right at clock in. Coworker who leaves early gets mad at me M OC TLDR: I used to go in early, coworker tried to use me, I told her no, boss took her side, so I stopped coming in early.
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    Font - So this happened back in 2015 through 2016. I (now 28F) was working as a phlebotomist in a local hospital and I worked first shift, which was about 3 am to 3 pm. I loved to come in about 10 to 15 minutes early and just set up my cart. Nothing fancy, just metal wired shelving types and we had our own personal phlebotomist trays that we put in the top section of the cart. I didn't always restock my tray before leaving my shift, so I'd typically come in early to organize it and get my metal
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    Font - Well, one woman (can't remember her age) who came in to work a few months after I started and I had issues. I found her lazy and rude. Examples: she would come in and snap at people when they tried to help her. She would take a book with her during morning rush (which was 3a - 6/7a) and sit on the floor to read and not come back to the lab to help after collecting her labs. She would hang out during the nurses celebrations and not come back for hours at a time. She wouldn't clock in until
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    Font - Well, like I said, I liked to come early and set up my cart before I clocked in. And she figured this out quickly, so she would try to hand me the stroke or trauma pager (something that needed to be handed to the next phlebotomist who was scheduled to take it that shift, but she'd try to give me hers even if I wasn't scheduled for that one), but I refused, saying "I'm not clocked in yet". So, she just left it on my cart a few times without telling me, which lead to it going off for a call
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    Font - So I said fine. I set my alarm for later in the mornings and I started coming in the last minute I could to clock in at 2:59 am. Yes, it made me start my rush a little later, but the look on my coworkers face when she saw me later (right before she was to clock out) as she was trying to hand me a pager I wasn't scheduled to have and I already had the one I was supposed to, was priceless. She complained to the supervisor, who tried to talk to me, but I said "Well I'm not supposed to be her
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    Rectangle - CMDRissue +1. It always blows my mind people like this don't get told to get more often 8.0k Reply Share
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    Font - TheFlyingSheeps The staffing shortages work both ways sadly. We were desperate for phlebotomists so ones like the co-worker are kept until they seriously Tup 2.2k Reply Share
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    Font - awalktojericho +2. Well, managers need to learn to step up and manage the workers to make the good workers not leave their jobs. They end up using really bad parenting techniques that are proven NOT TO WORK. 1.4k Reply Share
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    Font - Sapphyre2222 I'd be super disappointed in your supervisor for trying to placate her just because she is likely emotionally draining to manage. 2.2k Reply Share
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    Font - WitchyWolf94 OP. I think it was more than just that coworker being emotionally draining. That specific coworker lived practically next door to a senior coworker of ours. (I say senior meaning she was there a lot longer than either me or the new woman). I think that senior worker is part of the reason the newer one got the job in the first place. There was a day it stormed so badly that on my way home, the main road I take was almost flooded out.
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    Font - The next morning it was still storming, so my ex take me to work. I made it, but one small side road had a river of water actively flowing over it and was blocked off, so we took a different way. I get there and the senior worker was there and I could tell she was mad! I asked her what was wrong and she said her neighbor called out. Said the roads were too bad to get through. So the senior worker was upset because it seemed like her neighbor didn't even try to come in since the senior wor
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    Font - REVOLUTION WILL WE TELUESUET jfinnswake It's always surprising to me how unprofessional people can be in medicine. I had a shift last week where a paramedic who doesn't normally work our shift felt the need to lecture everyone on their history of PTSD and traumas. Blows my mind how people can act like that. 795 Reply Share
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    Font - Simple_Percentage234. Assuming you're in the US, your manager is trying to time-shave- which is extremely illegal. Good on you for standing up for yourself! 740 Reply Share
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    Font - WitchyWolf94 OP. Yep, I'm in the US. I knew what she was saying was illegal, but I didn't want to verbally say anything about it. So I just started complying with my scheduled hours. Ended up getting extra sleep! 580 Reply Share
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    Font - neozygonicus I've recently heard the term "quiet quitting". Which is basically doing the minimum in your job. It is abuses by co- workers and management of the "going above and beyond" attitude that make me do the minimum.
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    Font - MLSGeek. I used to end up at work 10-15 minutes early sometimes because road construction was horrendous and I could never tell when I would be routed onto city streets. One co- worker started meeting me in the break room, passing on patient info and then walking out the door. She clocked out the minute she saw me, even before I clocked in. The last time she did that, I told her I wasn't clocking in until my posted time and if she left, the lab wouldn't be covered. She complained to the m
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    Font - WitchyWolf94 OP That's exactly how my coworker did it! She would see me and immediately try to pass off the pager to me. And she's so the bare minimum at work, which I understand wanting to do, but patient care comes first, which includes getting those lab orders collected quickly

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