Staffing McDonald's...they walk among us...

[DSRIGGS]

BTW, does anybody know McDonalds pays workers (non supervisory) in the Bay area or LA? I always argue that in those areas I would imagine the market wage for entry level to be around $15/hour. Whenever I hear hillbilly rednecks in my area arguing against a minimum wage hike (anybody who has studied economics knows that the working poor spend every penny they make so an increase to the minimum wage would spur the economy not hurt it because we would be infusing a lot of cash into the economy) I just laugh because it is more of an argument of envy than of common sense. It is a union mentality, even though many of those same folks rail against unions (I have managed union and non union businesses and yes it is easier without a union but if you are a good manager it really doesn't matter).

 

[CaraOC]

Or even an RN who asked why someone with sleep apnea would need to take their CPAP with them for WLS. She figured that they do "something" to breathe for you during surgery. I would think that intubation AND extubation would have been taught somewhere along the way in nursing school.

Not fair of me to bash just the dumb newbie nurses. I must honestly say the residents these days may be dumber. Recently I was caring for a very critical cardiac baby. Baby was intubated and on a high frequency oscillating ventilator and had many drips in progress. I was standing giving a sign out report to the oncoming nurse and a resident walked up and like a little kid rudely interrupted by barking at me "what are your vent settings right now?" Not being one to tolerate their ******** I turned and said " why don't you actually look at the ventilator and see for yourself so then you won't need to interrupt us?" I **** you not. I continued with sign out report and skippy the resident stood in front of my tower of IV pumps and wrote down all the numbers on my drip infusions!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes. She didn't even know what the vent was!!! These are the people actually writing orders!! Be thankful for good nurses.

 

[DSRIGGS]

Oh the stories I could tell of these stupid ******* residents at night who are more interested in banging barbie the 22 year old nurse than actually doing there job..... And how chicken **** the are to ask the attending anything, so they lie and pretend like they know what the hell they are doing. There were a few times when I was very close to snapping the head right off a couple of these *********.......

No anger management issues or hard feelings with me!

 

[CaraOC]

Oh the stories I could tell of these stupid ******* residents at night who are more interested in banging barbie the 22 year old nurse than actually doing there job..... And how chicken **** the are to ask the attending anything, so they lie and pretend like they know what the hell they are doing. There were a few times when I was very close to snapping the head right off a couple of these *********.......

No anger management issues or hard feelings with me!

I highly recommend that you make it perfectly clear when admitted that you do not want to deal with residents. I sure do. I tell them I want updated by the attending only, or the fellow if need be. There are always an attending in house so just demand that the resident have him paged please. You could just tell the attending you do not want to deal with the residents and its related to an ongoing lawsuit that you are not at liberty to discuss. Trust me. You'll get some premium one on one. It has been my experience that when it becomes known there is a sue happy customer in house then the risk management department is notified and they crawl all over the place making sure all is smooth and nice.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Wait a minute. *I* used to work at McDonalds. All I can say is that it is hard, thankless work that definitely is not for those who are lazy, unaware or incompetent. That's why when I am hiring, I often look to hire people who have had experience at McDonalds (or similar).

That triad of characteristics complements arrogance at the top of my list of pet peeves.

Good triad. I don't mean that people at McDonald's are all incompetent. Many bright people I know also started there. The folks I'm complaining about should have started there...and honed some basic skills. And THEN moved on. The ones I'm complaining about could have used that "Basic Training." Somehow, Peter Principle?, these people all went directly to their own level of incompetence...and there they remain....screwing things up.

 

[k9ophile]

Ah, residents. I once held a position dealing with deaths; getting death certificates filled out or making sure the autopsy request was properly obtained. One resident had gotten the permission of a cousin and was oh-so-pissed when I told him it was not good because the deceased had a sister. He haughtily replied that it to be the closest relative who permitted it. I told him, yes, that world be the sister. I **** you not, he then informed me that the cousin lived right there in Denver and the sister was in Nebraska.

I guess I just expect more of someone who has at least a Bachelor's Degree and a few years of medical school. Then there were a few whose hands I held when they had to report a death as a coroner's case. They knew they needed help and were grateful to have it. It really comes down to arrogance. (Unless, of course, it's MY arrogance. It's always justified. )

 

[DianaCox]

"You could just tell the attending you do not want to deal with the residents and its related to an ongoing lawsuit that you are not at liberty to discuss. Trust me. You'll get some premium one on one. It has been my experience that when it becomes known there is a sue happy customer in house then the risk management department is notified and they crawl all over the place making sure all is smooth and nice."

Oh HELL yes, I'm going to use that!!!

Having taught medical and dental students as a graduate student in the biological chemistry department of the UCLA Medical School (TA'ing labs, grading exams), I was VERY uneasy about a lot of them making life and death decisions for me.

While i was a grad student, I had to have a salivary gland removed because of recurring stones. I was studying for my oral exams, so I brought some of the papers I needed to review to the hospital with me the night before (remember when you spent the night before surgery IN the hospital?) - and these 2 12 year old boys walked in around 8 PM and said they were going to be my anesthesiologists in the morning (!!) - and then one of them, seeing the papers, asked what I was studying, and when I said biochem, he respond - "wow - that was my worst subject" - and all I could think was, ****, you would think biochem would be a pretty IMPORTANT subject - oxygen metabolism, to start with! - for an anesthesiologist!

 

[DSRIGGS]

"You could just tell the attending you do not want to deal with the residents and its related to an ongoing lawsuit that you are not at liberty to discuss. Trust me. You'll get some premium one on one. It has been my experience that when it becomes known there is a sue happy customer in house then the risk management department is notified and they crawl all over the place making sure all is smooth and nice."

Oh HELL yes, I'm going to use that!!!

Having taught medical and dental students as a graduate student in the biological chemistry department of the UCLA Medical School (TA'ing labs, grading exams), I was VERY uneasy about a lot of them making life and death decisions for me.

While i was a grad student, I had to have a salivary gland removed because of recurring stones. I was studying for my oral exams, so I brought some of the papers I needed to review to the hospital with me the night before (remember when you spent the night before surgery IN the hospital?) - and these 2 12 year old boys walked in around 8 PM and said they were going to be my anesthesiologists in the morning (!!) - and then one of them, seeing the papers, asked what I was studying, and when I said biochem, he respond - "wow - that was my worst subject" - and all I could think was, ****, you would think biochem would be a pretty IMPORTANT subject - oxygen metabolism, to start with! - for an anesthesiologist!

You would think so wouldn't you, but nothing seems to surprise me anymore.

The next time I am in while them not to **** with me or will Diana Cox and Cara on their assess if they don't service me well!

Seriously though, that is the good thing about Dr K. No residents following, he does it himself. Marshall on the other hand about six residents who did all his grunt work. I called the hey boys and girls . As in, hey boy do this or hey girl get on that, because I am too arrogant to actually spend anytime with my patients because I like to cut.... That other stuff is beneath me.

Oh well I shut up because the Norco is talking now.

 

[CaraOC]

"You could just tell the attending you do not want to deal with the residents and its related to an ongoing lawsuit that you are not at liberty to discuss. Trust me. You'll get some premium one on one. It has been my experience that when it becomes known there is a sue happy customer in house then the risk management department is notified and they crawl all over the place making sure all is smooth and nice."

Oh HELL yes, I'm going to use that!!!

Having taught medical and dental students as a graduate student in the biological chemistry department of the UCLA Medical School (TA'ing labs, grading exams), I was VERY uneasy about a lot of them making life and death decisions for me.

While i was a grad student, I had to have a salivary gland removed because of recurring stones. I was studying for my oral exams, so I brought some of the papers I needed to review to the hospital with me the night before (remember when you spent the night before surgery IN the hospital?) - and these 2 12 year old boys walked in around 8 PM and said they were going to be my anesthesiologists in the morning (!!) - and then one of them, seeing the papers, asked what I was studying, and when I said biochem, he respond - "wow - that was my worst subject" - and all I could think was, ****, you would think biochem would be a pretty IMPORTANT subject - oxygen metabolism, to start with! - for an anesthesiologist!

Holy Friggan crap Diana, just how educated are you!! I'm scared now. I can't play words with friends with you!! I can't stand the pressure. You'll kick my ass.

 

[Susan in Tennessee]

Ah, residents. I once held a position dealing with deaths; getting death certificates filled out or making sure the autopsy request was properly obtained. One resident had gotten the permission of a cousin and was oh-so-pissed when I told him it was not good because the deceased had a sister. He haughtily replied that it to be the closest relative who permitted it. I told him, yes, that world be the sister. I **** you not, he then informed me that the cousin lived right there in Denver and the sister was in Nebraska.

I guess I just expect more of someone who has at least a Bachelor's Degree and a few years of medical school. Then there were a few whose hands I held when they had to report a death as a coroner's case. They knew they needed help and were grateful to have it. It really comes down to arrogance. (Unless, of course, it's MY arrogance. It's always justified. )

Thanks, you just made me spew out my ice tea! LOL

 

[Susan in Tennessee]

My sister and I were eating in a McDonalds in Rochester, MN one day while staying there while my mother was a patient at Mayo. After eating our "entree" my skinny sister decided she wanted some dessert so we walked up to the counter and she said to the youngster standing behind the counter " could I please have a cone?" She smiled, said sure, turned, grabbed an empty cone and handed it to my sister! We laughed so hard we could barely tell the girl what was so funny!

 

[Susan in Tennessee]

First of all...Millenials. Aargh!! My 40-year-old daughter was in the break room at work, writing a check...and one of the Millenial Morons who works there shrieked with delight, "OMG! Is that a check? Your're writing a check? I've never seen anybody write a check before."

And then the new local business. If YOU own the business, and YOU set the delivery hours, should YOU not have customer service available DURING (or at the end of) delivery hours, when problems are most likely to occur and yet still be FIXABLE?

We had perishable/edible items scheduled for delivery between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. Got an email at 5:48 a.m., saying that the items had been delivered...to my front porch. They were not there. They were not there by 7:00, either. Sometime around 7:20, SOMEBODY dropped the bags on our porch. But since the merchant claimed to have delivered them an hour-and-a-half earlier, and we didn't see the delivery, and the bell was not rung even though that direction was included in the delivery instructions, we did not know if they had been delivered elsewhere and some kind neighbor bought them over, or if it was a late delivery, or who had touched them, or what. And several items were missing.

Customer service was a non-response until almost 11:00 a.m. Meanwhile...

The moron at the bank credit card company...I called and wrote to the merchant and advised them that per their "100% Satisfaction Guarantee," I was exercising my option for a full refund and, if they wanted their stuff back, it would be on my porch from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.today...which it was...and they did not show...so I called to dispute charges on my account.

The genius at the credit card company said, "Well...maybe they did deliver it on time and a neighbor took it and removed the missing items" [value about $2.00] "and then returned the bags" [value about $60] "to your porch later on that morning."

I'm too old for this ****.

In MY world, the enthralled with check-writing moron would not have qualfied for her $1000/week job. She would be taking drive-through orders at McDonald's. The business owner would know that the best way to keep customers is to solve problems immediately....especially with perishable/edible items...so he would be a shift supervisor at Mc Donald's. And the credit card customer service guy would be maintenance crew at McDonalds's, sweeping floors....so as not to tax his logic skills.

Once we start with the "What's this world coming to" ****, it just never ends.

check writing is a lost art, I sometimes think telling time on a non-digital clock and tying shoelaces are too!

And don't even get me started on "counting back change". If the computerized register goes on the blink and the amount of change to give back to a customer doesn't pop up in front of their eyes, they have no idea how to count out your change to you...and and and don't EVEN be brazen enough to try to hand them a penney or nickel AFTER they've keyed in the amount of money you're giving them, because they have no IDEA how to figure it our or even to know what you're trying to do! LOL

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Holy Friggan crap Diana, just how educated are you!! I'm scared now. I can't play words with friends with you!! I can't stand the pressure. You'll kick my ass.

If you call her "Doctor-Doctor Diana," you will not be corrected on content. I call her that behind her back all the time.

 

[southernlady]

check writing is a lost art, I sometimes think telling time on a non-digital clock and tying shoelaces are too!

And don't even get me started on "counting back change". If the computerized register goes on the blink and the amount of change to give back to a customer doesn't pop up in front of their eyes, they have no idea how to count out your change to you...and and and don't EVEN be brazen enough to try to hand them a penney or nickel AFTER they've keyed in the amount of money you're giving them, because they have no IDEA how to figure it our or even to know what you're trying to do! LOL

Yeah, and my daddy was notorious for doing that. Actually so am I.

Another lost art, writing in cursive. As an amateur genealogist, reading cursive is important. It's going to become the secret code of the baby boomers.

 

[DianaCox]

Holy Friggan crap Diana, just how educated are you!! I'm scared now. I can't play words with friends with you!! I can't stand the pressure. You'll kick my ass.

Um, until my last brilliant/lucky play for 81 points, you were whipping my ass at WWF.

I have a PhD in biochem/molecular biology, but decided I didn't want to be an academic, so I didn't do a post-doc; I discovered the option of being a biotech patent attorney and went to law school, but as you may have seen from my post about almost getting scammed, my practical knowledge of any other area of law (except a little of health insurance law) is pretty minimal.