We have all heard the old adage “what goes around, comes around” and this week proved it at work. Our new boss did the reorganization that everyone was talking about but us. She held her cards close to her chest so that while the hospital knew a reorganization was coming none knew what shape it would take. Now we know and it was a shocker. The biggest change was that the woman who had made life miserable for the whole office is gone. Our boss fought the Administration and won on this one.
This woman had played the system well. She had talked about how getting your arm caught in the elevator doors could be a good workman’s comp and then proceeded to do that. She wrangled free medical care, a twelve week leave of absence with a job guaranteed, a settlement from the company, and the enmity of her entire department. When the old boss was hiring for an opening in the Patient Accounts Department this woman told her not to hire the blond woman because she was too pretty. Well the blond woman is pretty and smart and was hired and is now the manager. She has shaken things up like you would not believe. The diehard clicks that were running the place have lost their power. No more lazing around.
Our new boss had no choice but to put elevator hand back into a job but pulled her out of patient accounts and stuck her in billing. We are overstaffed in billing and she knew the job was on its way out. Two of the nicest people are in patient accounts now but a lot of their duties are changing in order to sick them on the insurance companies. They still get to hire a third person over there as well as pull a couple of things now outsourced back in house. Our new boss refused to put the elevator hand lady back into patient accounts because of one) the number of complaints from patients and two) the horrible way she treated both of the ladies who are in the department now.
So out goes the most hated person in the office. You can’t treat people with such hatred as she did and not have it come back and bite you. She hated me because I was smarter then she was and caught her mistakes. She tried more than once to get me fired. My job is now secure.
The second in command is not one of my favorite people but she does know the most about the way things run. However the new boss is riding herd on her and monitoring the way she behaves towards others. I snapped at her the other day when she insinuated I was dumb and didn’t know what I was talking about. I had a long talk with the boss as to why I was so upset and made a promise to her to trust her and that things were going to be changed. She let me know that she can hear what is going on in the office and she will stop the back stabbing and bitchiness that is prevalent in the office. They have learned that she will eliminate jobs and they are scared. I actually got a written apology from the lady who was being nasty. It was the first time it has ever happened in the twenty-five years that she had been there.
This woman had played the system well. She had talked about how getting your arm caught in the elevator doors could be a good workman’s comp and then proceeded to do that. She wrangled free medical care, a twelve week leave of absence with a job guaranteed, a settlement from the company, and the enmity of her entire department. When the old boss was hiring for an opening in the Patient Accounts Department this woman told her not to hire the blond woman because she was too pretty. Well the blond woman is pretty and smart and was hired and is now the manager. She has shaken things up like you would not believe. The diehard clicks that were running the place have lost their power. No more lazing around.
Our new boss had no choice but to put elevator hand back into a job but pulled her out of patient accounts and stuck her in billing. We are overstaffed in billing and she knew the job was on its way out. Two of the nicest people are in patient accounts now but a lot of their duties are changing in order to sick them on the insurance companies. They still get to hire a third person over there as well as pull a couple of things now outsourced back in house. Our new boss refused to put the elevator hand lady back into patient accounts because of one) the number of complaints from patients and two) the horrible way she treated both of the ladies who are in the department now.
So out goes the most hated person in the office. You can’t treat people with such hatred as she did and not have it come back and bite you. She hated me because I was smarter then she was and caught her mistakes. She tried more than once to get me fired. My job is now secure.
The second in command is not one of my favorite people but she does know the most about the way things run. However the new boss is riding herd on her and monitoring the way she behaves towards others. I snapped at her the other day when she insinuated I was dumb and didn’t know what I was talking about. I had a long talk with the boss as to why I was so upset and made a promise to her to trust her and that things were going to be changed. She let me know that she can hear what is going on in the office and she will stop the back stabbing and bitchiness that is prevalent in the office. They have learned that she will eliminate jobs and they are scared. I actually got a written apology from the lady who was being nasty. It was the first time it has ever happened in the twenty-five years that she had been there.
What goes around comes around. It will be interesting times.
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