Yelled at for not knowing medicine

[LillFilly]

I can't believe it took that much to convince the guy! I don't envy his wife/gf for having to put up with him. Their poor baby is going to get a very rude introduction to life.

[AccountingDrone]

Holy shit!

I just spent 4 days admitted to Yale-New Haven, and I have to say that I must have come into contact with at least 5 nonmedical employees for each of my clinicals ....

And I remembered to say please and thank you and be nice to everybody I came into contact with

I have to admit, it is fun being in a situation where they are thrilled to hear you have managed to fart, and are continuing to fart

[major abdominal surgery ... means your guts are starting to work]

[BookstoreEscapee]

Why the hell would you expect any random hospital employee to know how much longer something as unpredictable as childbirth would take? Even if you were a medical staff person, unless you were on his wife's case, you wouldn't know anything anyway.

[doogiej]

I feel bad for his wife/gf. While she was in labor trying to expel his child from her womb, he was acting like a complete idiot and yelling about something stupid. Then, instead of bonding with his newborn child (if indeed the child was born by that point, otherwise he was again abondoning her while she was probably in pain) to go and pursue something so moronic. Add to that the fact that it took 25 minutes to convince him that he was wrong.

What a wanker.

[Soulstealer]

From his reaction, it sounds like he genuinely believed that you held a job you were completely unqualified for and got it by knowing the right person. Maybe his promotion was passed over at work for the boss's idiot cousin and it's still a fresh wound? I dunno, I'm looking way too much into this.

More like the boss gave the promotion to someone competent and he's too full of himself to notice his failings so obviously it was favoritism.

[Snowbird]

It's a shame your boss couldn't charge him for the time he wasted in explaining something so rudimentary that even a child would understand. Maybe not his child, but let's hope the new mother has passed on more intelligence (though if she's with that guy...) Sheesh.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I'm not sure how I'd feel about my boss showing my resume to some random stranger to make a point, however if the stranger in question was a big an asshole as that guy, I'd probably be ok with it.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I'm not sure how I'd feel about my boss showing my resume to some random stranger to make a point, however if the stranger in question was a big an asshole as that guy, I'd probably be ok with it.

I do wonder why so many people are concerned that my resume was shown to a random stranger.

When you think about it, that's the purpose of a resume. Were you to look at Monster.com for an IT professional in my area, odds are you've seen mine already. I've broadcast that sucker to hundreds of employers (literally, I was out of work for a good 5 months) and god knows who has seen it.

As for the rest of what the boss showed the guy, it was nothing of my personal records, just my resume and my job description. Both are available online. Resume at Monster.com and the Job Description was online when they were looking for someone to fill the position.

[crashhelmet]

LOL His wife's OB wouldn't have even been able to answer that. You should have told him "Well, when the head pops out, it's time! Have a great night!"

Like a turkey thermometer?

CH

[Geek King]

"We get some real assholes at nights around here. I had to show him your resume with tons of computer crap on it and no medical history, I had to show him your job description and I had to spend 15 minutes of my life that I'm never getting back explaining that there are hundreds of jobs around here that have nothing to do with medicine apart from supporting the people that do. ARGH!. Well it's over and done with. Have a good weekend."

And he went back to his office.

Keep that one Mongo. He's one of the good ones.

[Akasa]

Wow, that's crazy. My brain to mouth filter would have misfired with that guy and I would have gotten snarky. "You're absolutely right! I can't work on computers w/o knowing medicine!"

[BaristaTrav]

I.. I can't even comprehend the stupid.. it hurts. Seriously. I've lurked these boards for years, and this guy has to be in the top 5. It would be like..

Berating the janitor at the Auto dealership for not knowing the specs on the new sedan..

Yelling at a concessions worker at the airport for not being able to work air traffic control.

Reporting the dispatcher at the fire dept. for not being able to put out a 5-alarm blaze.

I could go on and on.. I can't get my head around how his anger made sense in any sort of rational way. Maybe for a 3 year old... Hospitals are where we go when we get sick. Doctors work at hospitals. You're not a doctor.. Wait!! You're not a doctor!!!!

[EvilEmpryss]

I do wonder why so many people are concerned that my resume was shown to a random stranger.

My first thought is that all the resumes I've seen include a home address and phone number, sometimes a cell phone and email address as well. Of most concern is the home address.

If this SC really is a major ass and wants to get back at you for embarrassing him (forget that he made an ass of himself without your help) then he could make trouble for you by stopping by your house. With your phone number he could crank call you.

Frankly, unless you gave your boss (cool as he was to back you up) permission to let this guy view your personnel file, he had no right to do so. There are just too many whackjobs out there to risk that kind of trouble.

So, while thanking your boss for putting a stop to SCs BS, you might want to mention that you'd rather he not be handing out your private information like that again.

[Dips]

Wow, unbelievable!

I worked at a hospital for twelve years at a research tech. I never once had anyone ask me for anything other than directions to a building or department and I often walked around wearing a long lab coat.

It's probably a good thing too. None of my bosses would have been able to produce my resume to show the guy. My bosses were the types who would hand all the paperwork over to HR/Admin and let them worry about keeping it on file.

Not that anyone would have even got so far as speaking to my boss in the first place. I think security would have been called before *that* would happen.

[Seshat]

My first thought is that all the resumes I've seen include a home address and phone number, sometimes a cell phone and email address as well. Of most concern is the home address.

In IT, that's no longer the usual case. These days, IT resumes are written with the intention of being broadcast and publically available on the 'net: no personal safety information on them at all.