'Let's get a supervisor involved': Hospital worker gets revenge on nurse coworker for fabricating a customer complaint to get her fired

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Jul 23, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

It doesn't seem like the management of this hospital was abreast with the issues within their team—that is until this nurse made them very aware of what was going on after being unable to endure her toxic coworker any further.

Living with a coworker who is determined to catch you out at every turn is impossible. These narcissistic, psychopathic individuals will stop at nothing to ensure that they report you for each and every procedural technicality, no matter how exaggerated, minor, or flat-out untrue it might be. Needing to look over your shoulder, on constant watch for that knife in your back, is exhausting and has driven many a-worker to look for a new employment situation. 

These people are either cunningly manipulative or brazenly confidently stupid. There is no in-between. If you're dealing with the latter, it's done easily enough, but if the former—you're probably not going to win without the help of someone in a position of authority who's squarely on your side. But, in the case of the latter, luckily, they're probably doing something else that's a fireable offense in addition to making your life living heck. So, all you need to do is get them caught for said fireable offense.

Keep reading to see this hospital worker's account of events that unfolded at her work. It's a great read.

 

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  • 01
    Font - You're so obsessed with how I dress that you're going to involve HR? All right, let's get a supervisor involved and see how that goes for you. XL OC I work at a hospital that doubles as a research institution. Since I'm on the research side, I have to involve lots of other departments, and most people with whom I work with are very chill and understand that I have to beseech them for things to do my job. I'm one of those "she can go a hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene" type of
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    Font - Honestly, I've done a good job making most of the nurses like me. I bring them homemade treats sometimes, and I'm always extra friendly and approbative with them. Some of them have their days regardless, and I put up with them. Right after I first started working in that specific clinic, unfortunately, one nurse in particular (let's call her Ble) had decided that I was on her blacklist. Bitle hates doing work. She's like a kid playing Xbox when their parent asks them for help with groceri
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    Font - I needed a series of blood tubes drawn in clinic for a patient one morning (instead of down in phlebotomy protocol rules -- more complicated and stupid than it's worth getting into here), and Belle was the only nurse available. She was extremely put off at my asking her to draw this protocol kit (despite my giving advance notice to clinic that this needed to be done). She clearly did not want to leave her computer (which was not open to anything work-related), but she begrudgingly went an
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    Font - I came back down later to get a prescription signed for another patient, and a different nurse asked me what I'd done to upset Bille because she'd apparently been going off about me to anyone who would listen. I explained what had happened. The other nurse informed me that Bielle was pissed at me, and also felt my outfit -- a white medical coat, a modest blouse, work pants, and high heel boots -- was too provocative. What? I just decided to let it go and try to avoid Bile as much as possi
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    Font - This did not work. I kept running into situations where the other nurses were busy seeing patients. I was forced to walk back into the nurse triage room -- which is off-limits to patients -- and ask Bit le to draw two more of these blood kits in the next month. She was never happy to see me, and she was always wasting time on her work computer when I entered the room.
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    Font - Maybe 2 or 3 days after that last kit draw, my supervisor called me in her office to discuss my "presentation". She very nicely, and with pity in her voice, told me she'd received a report about my dress habits in patient-facing spaces. She said she personally hadn't noticed anything (no shit), but was obligated to discuss this with me anyhow. I assured her I had no idea what she was talking about. I thought about confronting Bi but decided not to because, ya know. Loose cannon and whatno
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    Font - It was not over. Two weeks later -- and I hadn't even asked anyone to draw any kits in the interim -- a formal report was filed against me for my conduct in clinic. This went to the hospital and then my supervisor who, even after reading the report, seemed totally clueless about what it could mean. I explained what had been happening with Bille.
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    Font - But then my supervisor told me a second person had reported this as well, on the same day as who was obviously Bille. This time, it was a patient. The patient had reported that I was dressing improperly for a patient-facing environment. Woah woah woah woah. I asserted that I wasn't, but I was nonetheless put on probation, which meant that my supervisor, against her will, now had to come with me when I saw patients in clinic for the foreseeable future, and a nurse manager would have to acc
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    Font - But as you can likely guess from her browsing habits, BOle was not the sort of person who needed MORE supervisors in her area. Cue malicious compliance. Fine, you want to punish me and force me to work in the eyesight of the supervisors? All right, let's get some supervisors down here as quickly as possible.
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    Font - My next in-clinic patient came in two days, and it was one of those stupid timed-in-clinic protocol kit visits, which meant I was forced to ask one of the nurses to draw the patient's blood. I informed my supervisor and we set off down for clinic. The nurse manager was in that day, so she accompanied the two of us. We all went back into the triage room so that I could ask for help with the blood draw. Bie and one other nurse were there. What we saw upon entering was the other nurse enteri
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    Font - I asked for BOlle's help drawing the kit, and she sighed heavily and spun around... to see two higher- ups looking on with disdain at her work computer. In embarrassment, she swiveled back and closed those two tabs, which revealed - you can't make this stuff up a website for MARITAL AIDS that had been open in another tab, about which BitOle had clearly forgotten until now. I just smiled and handed her the bag like nothing had happened. In the hall, my supervisor and the nurse manager were
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    Font - What followed was so incredibly beautiful that I hope it made the ending of this long, long post worth waiting for. According to the nurse who'd initially asked me what I had done to upset Bille, her activity was searched. She was revealed to have been spending hours upon hours every day browsing the web, shopping, and using social media. Since she had been previously warned about this behavior, she was given a formal write-up.
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    Font - But this was just the beginning. The day after the three of us went down to clinic, my supervisor called me in her office again. She told me that Bile had FABRICATED the patient complaint about me and posted it from her work computer. (How did they learn this? Oh, that'd be because she saved a draft of the message that reported me to the hospital, and she'd accessed the patient complaint/comment webpage the same day.) My supervisor sincerely apologized for the hassle and told me I was no
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    Font - As for Bitlle: apparently fearing the worst, she put her two weeks' notice in the same day after getting wind that she was in some far more serious trouble. For reasons I will never understand as long as I live, the hospital chose to let her quit after 2 weeks instead of firing her on the spot. Maybe they knew what a nightmare she was and were comfortable letting her quit on her own accord. It's not as though she was due to glean any glowing references from this experience. Maybe they jus
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    Font - TL;DR setup: I run drug trials at a research hospital. A clinic nurse decided she hated me because I made her do her job and, she claimed, "dressed provocatively". She made a formal report against me, and then a patient one surfaced. I was put on probation and made to see all patients with supervisors. TL;DR resolution/malicious compliance: I brought supervisors down as quickly as possible. Said supervisors found out the nurse had been spending many hours a day on non-work related website
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    Font - Technoght +3. 11 hr. ago Depending on the state and a companies own requirements, firing someone for cause can be a lot of paperwork. Letting someone resign in two weeks and then quietly marking their personnel folder as "Do not rehire" is so much simpler. The waters can get muddier when the employee is known to lie and fabricate things. 10 to 1 Bille would have file a wrongful termination complaint to get unemployment and severance. She's eligible for squat when she quits. Reply Share Vo
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    Font - CoupleTechnical6795 10 hr. ago. edited 10 hr. ago S I had a much less dramatic but similar thing happen. I was like 20, and I was hired to be a unit clerk at the local hospital. They were transitioning from paper to computer (yes, I'm old) and I was hired specifically because I knew how to use a computer (late 90s). There was a woman there who was so much like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show I thought the character was based on her. Thick makeup, strong perfume, tons of jewelry and an absol
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    Font - She kept reporting me for random stuff that didnt happen, and turned the aides and some the nurses against me. Like when I got pregnant for my son she told everyone I didn't know who the father was. The nurses staged an intervention for me just to be told "of course I know who the father is! I live with him and we're engaged!!". When I was like 5 mo pregnant she told the supervisor I threatened to jump one of the aides in the parking lot lolll Anyway, it came to a head when the supervisor
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    Font - Because it didn't, of course. Mimi had worn a ton of perfume as she always did, saw a patient's family leave a complaint form, opened the complaint form box, and put my name in place of her own. But didn't think to change the date to one on which I'd actually worked. And we know this because security cameras. The box was located between the supervisor's office and the unit clerk's desk, where a huge amount of patient information sits, so there are security cameras. She was fired after alm
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    Font - Peruda 11 hr. ago I really hope they weren't any cameras in the office where you flashed her. Reply Share Vote Grabbsy2+1 10 hr. ago Assuming OP didnt completely fabricate the ending of this story, I agree! Reply Share Vote ...
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    Font - MasterOfTheAbyss So she was caught using company computers to commit fraud? That seems pretty serious. I imagine they didn't fire her because it would save the paperwork. It is probably a lot cheaper to let someone quit. Vote Reply Share ...
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    Font - readerf52 +1 If they had fired her, they would have had to pay her unemployment, at least in the US. If one quits their job, they are not eligible for unemployment. Reply Share Vote jwillsrva If you're fired with cause, and a paper trail, this usually isn't it the case. Considering B put her 2 weeks notice in, they would only be on the hook for 2 weeks at most. I'm gonna go with they just didn't want a scene. Vote Reply Share
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