Sometimes I'm just mean...and gross...

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Today for lunch I had some chicken and veggies in a delightful pesto and alfredo sauce. Because of the pesto, the alfredo turned kinda tannish. I had sauce left over so I went to one of the local restrooms to pour it down the crapper and wash it out. When I poured, it splattered onto the toilet rim and side of the bowl. I thought for a hot second about cleaning it up, but since it's a hospital, decided it would give people something to talk about.

Now my distraction of the day will be hearing the CT techs complain about it and see if they call environmental services to clean it up.
 
Environmental Services at the hospital... There's a job I don't miss. Only time I've ever been fired. Left smiling.

And of course they'll call them, they always get called, even for things they aren't supposed to.
 
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What's bad is when you set up an inside joke, that should raise some eyebrows, like a biohazard or other critical event and the people miss it entirely.

Did you not notice the fallen and broken case with the CDC stickers all over it?

:rolleyes:
 
What's bad is when you set up an inside joke, that should raise some eyebrows, like a biohazard or other critical event and the people miss it entirely.

Did you not notice the fallen and broken case with the CDC stickers all over it?

:rolleyes:

When I did critical care transport, we flew to an outside hospital to pick up a not-terribly-sick patient. Local EMS picked us up at the airport for the 5ish mile drive to the hospital. On the way we stopped by a Cook Out, where I got a banana milkshake. I poured it into a suction canister, and sat it on the stretcher. When we got to the hospital and to the room and the staff came to help us move the patient I picked up the canister and chugged half of it. The staff had collective heart attacks. One of the nurses threw up. I did it kinda as a joke, but it got way out of hand. Their hospital president called ours, and hilarity did not ensue.
 
Today for lunch I had some chicken and veggies in a delightful pesto and alfredo sauce. Because of the pesto, the alfredo turned kinda tannish. I had sauce left over so I went to one of the local restrooms to pour it down the crapper and wash it out. When I poured, it splattered onto the toilet rim and side of the bowl. I thought for a hot second about cleaning it up, but since it's a hospital, decided it would give people something to talk about.

Shame you didn't have some small chunks to scatter about.....
 
When I did critical care transport, we flew to an outside hospital to pick up a not-terribly-sick patient. Local EMS picked us up at the airport for the 5ish mile drive to the hospital. On the way we stopped by a Cook Out, where I got a banana milkshake. I poured it into a suction canister, and sat it on the stretcher. When we got to the hospital and to the room and the staff came to help us move the patient I picked up the canister and chugged half of it. The staff had collective heart attacks. One of the nurses threw up. I did it kinda as a joke, but it got way out of hand. Their hospital president called ours, and hilarity did not ensue.

Some people need to pull the stick outta their *ahem* and learn to laugh a little.
I get it...serious environment, stay professional and all that...but, dadgum, stressful jobs burn people out if they don't find ways to relieve the tension.
Somebody along the way shoulda squashed it with a simple "Dude, that ish was funny...but, dont do it again, ok?"
 
Many years ago, in a galaxy far far away, the work place did away with the tobacco users courtyard. Though it didn't impact me, some of my coworkers were pretty irate. I suggested to one that he walk around with a cup of coke syrup like it was his spittoon and then walk by the manager and drink it.
 
Some people need to pull the stick outta their *ahem* and learn to laugh a little.
I get it...serious environment, stay professional and all that...but, dadgum, stressful jobs burn people out if they don't find ways to relieve the tension.
Somebody along the way shoulda squashed it with a simple "Dude, that ish was funny...but, dont do it again, ok?"

The nurse manager and program director were seriously unamused, but given I was part-time and they were down medics and would be screwed if they sacked me, a slap on the wrist and a stern "don't do it again" was what I got.
 
When I did critical care transport, we flew to an outside hospital to pick up a not-terribly-sick patient. Local EMS picked us up at the airport for the 5ish mile drive to the hospital. On the way we stopped by a Cook Out, where I got a banana milkshake. I poured it into a suction canister, and sat it on the stretcher. When we got to the hospital and to the room and the staff came to help us move the patient I picked up the canister and chugged half of it. The staff had collective heart attacks. One of the nurses threw up. I did it kinda as a joke, but it got way out of hand. Their hospital president called ours, and hilarity did not ensue.
Looks like I'd enjoy hangin' with the likes of you :rolleyes:
Hilarious! Was no one familiar with Caddyshack?
 
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I do have a warped sense of humor, which has gotten me into much trouble. I will say the older I get the less crazy my antics are.
I have a problem... I love a warped sense of humor, if something strikes me as funny I have a tendency to lose some of my self control.
It has gotten me in trouble multiple times. The most amazing thing is I've been with the same company for 23 years. I usually her, "you're retarded", then they but out laughing behind closed doors.
 
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I have a problem... I love a warped sense of humor, if something strikes me as funny I have a tendency to lose some of my self control.
It has gotten me in trouble multiple times.
I hear Depends work really well.
 
Years ago I worked at a service station, a group smeared feces all over the walls and I had the pleasure of cleaning up the mess. Kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth so to speak. If I ran the hospital this incident occured the Chuckman would get a week of cleaning every crapper in the place, not as punishment for a bad joke but for the callous disregard for fellow workers. Making a mess and passing it off is not funny and as for mean, a good whooping by a few housecleaners would be justice, jmho.
 
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Used to love when the C-130 Navigator would hand off a full airsick bag, to pass down to the Loadmaster to dispose of. Loadie would look in the bag, sniff it, then hook a big ol' scoop of cream of mushroom soup with his fingers & eat it.

Lab techs at the clinic I was assigned to in Germany, would hang out in the patient waiting area, drinking apple juice or ginger ale out of urine specimen cups.
 
Years ago I worked at a service station, a group smeared feces all over the walls and I had the pleasure of cleaning up the mess. Kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth so to speak. If I ran the hospital this incident occured the Chuckman would get a week of cleaning every crapper in the place, not as punishment for a bad joke but for the callous disregard for fellow workers. Making a mess and passing it off is not funny and as for mean, a good whooping by a few housecleaners would be justice, jmho.
Well, if it helps any, in a hospital setting, there are special environmental teams that deal with this kind of stuff all day long. Actually, any kind of body fluid spills are not to be handled by regular staff at all.

When I was training as a WFR, I had an observed scenario where I rolled a body over and he "puked" applesauce all over me. I managed to dodge getting hit in the face with it. He later told me that's what he was aiming for.
 
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I can admit that a long, long time ago at a somewhat national truck washing company someone picked up a cow kidney from a semi trailer washout and put it in the truckers lounge microwave and forgot it was there. Cooked. Overcooked, in fact.
And a poor fella with a weak stomach found it.

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Years ago I worked at a service station, a group smeared feces all over the walls and I had the pleasure of cleaning up the mess.
Try the girls bathroom at a hotel pool house. I used to have to get out the hose to wash the walls down every morning. The men’s room was nothing.

Well, if it helps any, in a hospital setting, there are special environmental teams that deal with this kind of stuff all day long. Actually, any kind of body fluid spills are not to be handled by regular staff at all.
Reminds me having a drain after abdominal surgery that plugged. The nurse removed it and we were both sprayed with bloody water. I think the worst part was her demanding I take my gown off right there in front of her While handing me a clean one.
 
Years ago I worked at a service station, a group smeared feces all over the walls and I had the pleasure of cleaning up the mess. Kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth so to speak. If I ran the hospital this incident occured the Chuckman would get a week of cleaning every crapper in the place, not as punishment for a bad joke but for the callous disregard for fellow workers. Making a mess and passing it off is not funny and as for mean, a good whooping by a few housecleaners would be justice, jmho.

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8th floor at UNC, more than once. Scare the crap out of people.
People still don't like going into that building even though it's no longer the morgue.

If it's the one I am thinking of, it's going to get demolished next year to make way for a new building.
 
People still don't like going into that building even though it's no longer the morgue.

If it's the one I am thinking of, it's going to get demolished next year to make way for a new building.

I haven't been there in years; morgue used to be top floor of Berryhill Hall. Ironically the best views in Chapel Hill. A long, slow ride up a creaky elevator. All the makings of a slasher movie.
 
Better than the morgue at Duke north. That was a food service auxiliary fridge when they decided they were tired of transporting bodies to Duke south
 
I haven't been there in years; morgue used to be top floor of Berryhill Hall. Ironically the best views in Chapel Hill. A long, slow ride up a creaky elevator. All the makings of a slasher movie.
Berryhill is the one that is scheduled for demolition. They're going to clear the courtyard between it and Columbia St for the lay down area to build a new Medical Education Building. One of my projects is overseeing the replacement of some old cast iron piping in the ground in the area leading up to the demolition and new construction.

You're right that it's tall with a good view. There are a number of repeaters and antennas on top of it including the HP Viper system.
 
Berryhill is the one that is scheduled for demolition. They're going to clear the courtyard between it and Columbia St for the lay down area to build a new Medical Education Building. One of my projects is overseeing the replacement of some old cast iron piping in the ground in the area leading up to the demolition and new construction.

You're right that it's tall with a good view. There are a number of repeaters and antennas on top of it including the HP Viper system.

When I was going through nursing school I worked in a lab in that building, research on Yucatan mini pics. They were housed in the basement of the old hospital, we'd knock them out, throw a sheet over the cage, wheel them to the lab. The labs' vet services were in the basement....monkeys, rats, mice, rabbits....

I also taught residents in that building. This was early 90s when I was a medic with Orange County. Back then that building was ancient.

I wonder where the new morgue will be??
 
I wonder where the new morgue will be??
I think it's been moved to downtown Raleigh where the medical examiner's office is. I would also suspect they have a temporary one in the basement of Memorial, but nobody talks about that. They just recall the one in Berryhill and get the willies over it. Lots of money being dumped into that area of campus. They built Marsico for imaging research, renovated Mary Ellen Jones, built a new dental science building, plan on building Bio Informatics 2, and now going to build that MEB. That's all in the last 10 years.
 
@noway2 , I haven't been on that Medical Campus since I worked there as a nurse, and I left there in 2006. I drive by there once a month or so, I hardly know where I'm going.

Hell, I remember when they built the neuro Sciences building and move the ER from Memorial to the ground floor of the neuro Sciences ground flpor, and moved the helicopter pad from the ground in front of Memorial to the roof.
 
A co-worker placed a dead possum in the back of a tech's service van. He shite himself the next morning :D

A grandson decided to fill the dog's waterbowl with dog food. I found it and dumped it in the hall toilet, it looked so good there I left it for the response. It was the right call, the older grandson freaked out.
 
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