Genius Coworkers

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by batgirl

So around here all the ambulances entrances to pretty much every hospital in the area have a numbered code to enter them. This keeps civilians from going in and out as they please directly into the emergency rooms. The code is extremely easy to remember and works in almost every hospital in the area. When new people are going through training they are told this repeatedly.

We also have shield numbers that are specific to each person that identifies them as emergency personnel to police, fire etc. They serve no other purpose other than to identify ourselves in the city system.

For some strange reason we have a newer EMT who insists that the codes to all the emergency rooms is not the easy to remember one for all code, but their individual shield. Even after being told several times and shown several times that this was not the case, the guy still doesn't understand. He will stand at the keypad in front of the er for a solid few minutes just entering and reentering his shield number and wondering why his code doesn't work to open the door. He has even emailed his team leader to ask that they "put his shield into the system to open the doors."

I actually had to physically shove him out of the way and yell at him not to touch the keypad anymore. I had a critical patient who needed to get into the ER right away, and he runs ahead and stands at the keypad entering his code and scratching his head while my patient barely holds onto life. I have tried to be nice about it for a few weeks or so, but now it's gotten to the point where I refuse to be decent anymore and I just yell at him and call him a fucking idiot.

That should probably be brought to management's attention. Not only could people potentially die from him being too incompetent to access ER immediately, but the fallout from that could have the hospital facing lawsuits. If I had a family member be worse off because of a situation like that, I'd be hiring a lawyer to push the hospital's shit in, since that should be unacceptable for the hospital to allow that to continue.