Psycho Ex-Boss #1
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003, 10:09 a.m.

Remember how I said I'd have minimal contact with the worse of my two former bosses? (Just humor me, I don't think I actually mentioned that.) Yeah, well, maybe minimal contact is still too much. This woman drives me up the wall!

[Heavy pounding on office door.]

I get up to go answer the door. There's nobody in the immediate vicinity, so I start to close the door.

"Theresa!"

I look, there is Psycho Ex-Boss #1, glaring at me because, obviously, I should have known she was there.

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "Can you look something up for me." Read: "Do this! Now!" (No, that wasn't a typo. It wasn't a question, it was a statement and a demand.)

Me: "Suuure." (Read: "No, I don't really want to but I'm pretty much obligated to because a) I have to continue to deal with you and b)I'm still nominally supposed to help you. And, because, you know, I didn't need to do anything else, and I'm not in the middle of something else and I really should be at your beck and call.)

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "Look up patient so-and-so."

Me: "That's a relatively common name. Do you have a [unique identification] number or something?"

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: *rolls eyes* *huffs* "I'll go get it!" *stomps out*

Me: *rolls eyes* *huffs*

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "Here." She shoves a scrap of paper at me with nearly illegible handwriting.

Me: *squints* "Ummm... ok." *types in numbers*

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "No! Not there! Not [this system]! I want [that system]!"

Me: "You didn't specify which system and we usually use [this system], but it's ok because I can get to [that system] from [this system]."

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "No! I want you to go into [that system]."

Me: *sighs* *grits teeth* *presses button to get into [that system] from [this system] "Here."

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "I want the nursing notes."

Me: "Ok." (Read: And you couldn't tell me that in the first place so I could have saved us both time???) *scrolls down page looking for said notes*

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "I want the nursing notes."

Me: "I'm working on it. Just give me a minute."

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "I am."*rolls eyes*

Me: *rolls eyes* "Here it is. It's 128 pages. What are you looking for?"

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "No, that's not the page I want. I want the page that lists out everyone."

Me: "This report is archived. That page doesn't exist anymore. It's only for active nursing notes."

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "No, no, this isn't the page I want. Go out one level."

Me: "I know what page you're talking about. This report is archived. That page doesn't exist anymore. It's only for active nursing notes. Tell me what you're looking for and I can look through the report to tell you."

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "No, no, this isn't the page I want. Go out one level."

Me: *sighs* *grits teeth* *presses button to go out one level "Here."

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: "Where is it? That's not the page I want. I want the page that lists out everyone."

Me: *grits teeth* *rolls eyes* "That page doesn't... exist... anymore. It's only for active nursing notes. This report is archived. What are you looking for?"

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: *glares at me* "Who charted on this patient on such-and-such date."

Me: "So you want to know who charted on this patient on the very first day, which is at the very beginning of the report and we've been looking at for the last 5 minutes?"

Psycho Ex-Boss #1: *glares at me* "That's all I needed to know." *stalks out angrily muttering**glares at me*

Me: *watches door close* *clenches fists and restrains urge to scream* *glares at door and mutters angrily*

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