I'm now a Corporate cog

[Simp]

Well I had my first day of work and my job today. We have two days of orientation and man hospitals have a crap ton of guidelines. For good reason of course. We watched at least 10 video's and one going over a moron with some lame pick up lines. My personal favroit of his was him saying to "hot lady"in office setting "Just pretend were in the girls locker room. Talk dirty to me!". He then was shocked he had a sexual harassment complaint against him.

Another was the video's on falls, and electrocution. Why it was funny was the acting was HORRIBLE. Mainly it was the old lady in every video falling again and again and the video plastering real big "WRONG WAY". It would then show you the "correct way" and sometimes it made no sense as why it would prevent a fall. One example given was the old lady asked the over weight guy if they could stop the wheelchair at the rest room. He sighs with in a "Oh **** this sucks" manner and says "Ya sure, I guess". He lets her out and opens the door for her and tells he just to ask if she needs help. Then a couple hootie nurses stop by a few yards away. So of course he goes over and works his charms on the ladies and then you hear BAM BOOM KABOOM. They all run over all concerned and again your see "Wrong Way". They then show the correct way and he stays outside the door and doesn't go to speak with the ladies. He knocks and asks if she's ok and this time answers "oh yes". I almost LOL thinking WT*! Seriously I understand why it's the correct way, but he didn't do anything in the correct way that changed the circumstance for her not to fall. I'd certainly agree the knock to check on her could have prevented one if she asked for help but she didn't she was fine. Why wasn't she fine in the first scene. It's totally stupid that I even notice this, but after 8 hours of it it's fun to blow off steam.

I also got a say I feel like a Ginny pig. I've been pocked and prodded and made to pee in a cup more times then I can count. Next up is a series of Hep B vaccine shots, and H1N1 vaccine YEAH!! Also just to let you guys know every hospital at least our hospital makes sure your personal info is safe. We went over all the HIPPO laws and were told it's even illegal for for us to look up our own stuff.

I also had to LOL at our HR rep. She couldn't get a VCR or TV to work, but man she knew the ins and outs of the time cards. Seriously she was like John Wayne with a six shooter. I had to laugh when she went over replacement costs for time cards. Apparently a large amount of the Nurses are using them as ice scrappers and damaging them. ;D

Long story short one day closer to getting a new boat and we know that's all that counts!!

[Glenn]

Hey man, I hear ya.  Every year we are REQUIRED to take several online courses on everything from "proper conduct" in the workplace to protecting customer information, ethics, expense accounts, company secrets, you name it. 

It's a gambut of basic common sense courses that's essentially a waste of time for anyone with good morals and good head on their shoulders.

Welcome to the corporate world!  :

[bassfisherjk]

Good Luck on the new job.We go through some of the same yearly training stuff also.

[OIFBasser]

In the Marines a platoon is as strong as your weakest link. And when that weak link screwed up, the rest of us were punshed for it. You really have love corporal punishment huh? It is really discouraging having to sit in a room, and watch all of those stupid videos. And the sad fact is, is that they made those videos for the 2% that have no morals and common sense at all, and probably had no biz working there in the first place. Life is good!

[Uncle Leo]

Just one more reason why I left the Big International Companies and opted to work for a small company. Better pay and less BS. No more quarterly manager meetings, rah/rah sessions and general waste of time. Of course I am not in the medical profession.

[fish-fighting-illini]

  Uhh.... in case they have a quiz isn't it HIPPA laws not HIPPO? 

   Maybe you did that on purpose!  lol

[Simp]

Actually we went over it today and it's HIPAA. So it's two "A"s and only one "P"s. The presenter said it's a pet peeve of hers that everybody uses two "P"s instead of two "A"s. We had another long day going over this stuff today. This stuff is strict man! An example of how strict it is you see your mother in law come in to the Hospital to be seen for X reason but don't talk to her or maybe you come by this info from a schedule of patients. Then if you were to tell any other family members she's in the hospital for X reason or even just in the hospital it's a HIPAA violation. You have to get verbal clearance for you to give out that

info. There are tons of rules and regulation. We also got some crazy numbers. Like Nurses only wash there hands or use the special quick soap 50% of the time when going from room to room to see patients. So the person next door to you could have Merca (I'm not sure if that's how it's spelled) and you got a 50/50 shot that the Nurse has washed there hands. The number is even worse for doctors at 30%! So our hospital has a HUGE campaign going to encourage proper hand washing. All in all non of this is a big deal to me. I mean that in terms of none of it upsets me to do or anything. It's just part of the job and I get that. It's a great place to work. Tons of nice people and a crap ton of good looking nurses. I plan to join the gym in the hospital loose some pounds. Then find a hot nurse who doesn't file a harassment claim!

BTW my first reel day of work in my actual job is tomorrow on my 28th birthday!

[Pond Hopper]

The only way you could have it worse is to work for a dealer, for large corporation and have to play by their rules(constantly changing).  I swear I have read our "contract" dozens of times and am told new rules at every meeting.

[Simp]

I wanted to mention any numbers I posted are national numbers and not my specific hosptial. I also wanted to point out I'm not going to be going up to ladies and saying "I'm Rick James ******" in a Dave Chappel voice. I merely meant it will be nice to be in a environment with possibilities of finding a girl who doesn't mind a guy who smells like JJ's magic! ;D My department has a very diverse background so I also look forward to working with them.