I remember being a child, rushed to the emergency room one night while having an asthma attack. Tired, scared, cold. A nice man who had been waiting a while got called by the receptionist but gestured to me, red-faced and heaving for breath and wheezing, and told her to take me first. I was too young to remember anything else except his kindness, even 20 years later. I hope I thanked him.
Some people never feel pain in their necks. Up to the point they turn their head the wrong way and Sever their own spine with their broken vertebrae. Never take the brace off until the doctors clear you.
My wife broke her T2 vertebrae. She had so many injuries not even the hospital thought it was her worst. They put plates on it 2 days later. But if she had no collar on she would have been in worst shape from it. Long story short, you're right.
I heard a story about a guy that was in an accident and seemed fine, he asked for a drink and died when he tilted his head up to drink and either finished breaking his neck or his neck was already broken, but the bones were still in place, and the action separated them.
The owner in the second to last story actually pulled of a mr krabs routine without being a douchebag. "Patrick, you're fired!" "But I don't work here?" "You want a Job?" "Sure!" "Ok, you're fired!"
13:13 I think this is my favorite "I don't work here, lady" story because the customer got what she wanted. She wanted OP fired. But the manager made it known that OP wasn't an employee when he did it.(and it doesn't count on OP's employment history)
You can actually sue them if they dont. I had stores, specially online ones try to pull this BS on me. I simply repliee that I would get in contact to my lawyer to "get informed" and they backtrack real quick because they know they will lose. If a company makes a mistake its their reponsibility to fix it without any cost to the customer. Theres no such thing as "whoops we sent the wrong item! Pls send it back it to us and pay the additional cost for new delivery" I once bought a tshirt online. Where I live theres a law that say we have 7 days to "regret" an online purchase, meaning we can return it and have a full refund (unleas we damage the product). So I got this tshirt and unfortunally it didnt fit me. I've contacted the store 5 days later and asked if they could change sizes. They said that was only allowed on the firat 4 days. So I said, ok then I want to cancel my purchase and have a refund. The BS started. First they tried saying "but our store only allows refund on the first 4 days", I said no, the stores rules are not above the actual law, and sent a copy of said law. Then they said "fine! we'll send you the cost to shipping the shirt back to us!", again I said no, according to the law I have no obligation to pay anything to return the product. They started trying to BS their way again, so I just sent a final email saying that I would be contacting my lawyer and ask him about this. It took less than 3 minutes for them to reply to that email saying they would pay to get the shirt back and sent my refund. None of this would have happened if they just have allowed me to exchange the shirat size.
The neck brace story. Just because they didn’t feel hurt doesn’t mean that a X-ray or exam couldn’t reveal damage. Also taking it off before confirming that could make a minor injury worse. The nurse should have taken a few seconds to figure out what else could have been done to make the patient more comfortable while waiting to be seen though.
i have.. NO medical experience, but i feel like something could hurt if it moves since thats a change in the position and stuff (i may just be using fancy words or whatever its not intentional-)
@@toasterhavingabath6980nah op is right. Your neck could be broken and you not feel it due to shock or nerve damage. Dad saved the life of a dude with a internal decapitation and he thought he was fine but thankfully my dad was a medic and knee immediately what was going on and called in a med helo and saved him. They said if my dad wasn't behind him when the wreck happened guy would've been dead
Story 1: once, I was taken to the ER in an ambulance and left on the stretcher on the side of a hallway for like 45 minutes. The nurse who dropped me off told me to take deep breaths, then another came around to get my blood pressure without a word. I closed my eyes and focused on breathing. A third nurse walked up and asked the second, “have you done it yet?” To which the third responded in an annoyed whisper, “no - I’m trying to, but she’s hyperventilating!” 🙄 they must put the dumb ones out in the hallway.
The second story makes me SO MAD. I'm a medical student about to begin my internship year, and I have been surrounded by medical professionals my whole life. My mother is a nurse. To see people just assume nurses don't have to constantly re-educate themselves and actualize their knowledge, or that they don't study is one thing that can instantly make me dislike a person. Nurses, most of the time, are smart, hardworking, and kind. And I take a lot of offence to hearing people demean them as being "lesser doctors" or "less intelligent than doctors" or what BULLSHIT opinion people feel entitled to have about them.
i feel like i’ve been unlucky, but i’ve been to the hospital a good couple times in my life, the nurses have always been the rudest, most abrasive, and uncaring people i have ever met, to the point where i avoid hospitals at all costs, my last straw was a nurse berating me for a car accident that id just been in, i was 17, i just up and ripped the neck brace off after a couple minutes of her BS and stormed off, bad decision, i know, but the adrenaline was running so high and she wasn’t letting off, saying they need to drug test me because i’m “obviously on something,” (i wasn’t) the doctor stopped me and did convince me to still let her check my neck, which was thankfully fine, but i will never return if i have the option to not go
I’m a few years ahead of you. When I was a medical student ive had nurses act extremely obnoxious toward me. Ever since I’ve graduated residency I’ve never had a nurse act rude toward me.
@razzberry4756 I'm so sorry you had that experience. Maybe my experience is limited. I live in a small city and I've had gone to small hospitals, so maybe that's why. Even then, not all of them are kind. Some are really condescending and rude. Some have superiority complex. But in my limited experience the majority have been really good people.
Watching so many of these Reddit reads has given me a hyperbolic view of entitled customers, like they actually believe "YOUR EMPLOYEE MILDLY INCONVENIENCED ME, I DEMAND THEY BECOME HOMELESS AND STARVING IN THE STREETS FOR THIS INJUSTICE!". It's good to see one of them get what they supposedly wanted and backpedal once a shred of empathy kicks in and they realize "oh, destroying someone's life over my mild inconvenience is actually quite bad".
And I think there’s a lot of sexism involved. Nurses are usually women statistically so that’s one thing that makes some people think that they’re inherently less valuable.
I know doctors and nurses do different things, but the majority of patient interaction and actual procedures are done by nurses, for sure. I was in the hospital for a week and I saw my specialist doctor maybe once a day while I saw nurses - the same three nurses - at least once every few hours
the first 2 stories reminded me of my stay in the hospital recently, most of my experiences with nurses and doctors were good for the most part, but there was one nurse who really refused to listen to me. I was so incredibly weak that even sitting up was exhausting, and I fainted a bunch of times, nurses had to help me stand up to be weighed, and going to the bathroom was...a challange to say the least. the not listening nurse decided it was a good idea to have me sit up in a chair to help regain some strength. I didn't want to, I felt I was going to pass out again, and was going to vomit. she didn't listen. I'm in the chair for less than a second and warn her I'll vomit. she ignores me. the closes vomit baggy was across the room, too far away for me to reach without falling over again. so, my options were limited. I rang the nurses bell with my last strength, vomit on the floor, and pass out on the bed. she had to clean it up, but hey, I tried to warn her numerous times.
@@ShadowReignhart oh I did, if it was just the one time it'd be bad enough, but at one point she wouldn't help me go to the bathroom and said I could walk there myself, part of the reason I was in the hospital was because I just had my big toe amputated, so walking wasn't really in the cards at that point.
To anyone finding themselves in Neck Brace OP's situation: *request a sleep mask.* Hospitals have those little blindfoldy eye-shade things you also find on aeroplanes (both places where people often want to sleep while lights are on). I can't fault OP too much for trying to mitigate their discomfort during a long wait, but they might have realised the visual of someone with a blanket over their face on a hospital gurney is, um... striking...
I get the nurse being a bit agitated with OP was trying to take off his neck brace because OP could make his injury worse , but getting mad at OP because someone else thought he was dead was entirely not needed. If a patient is in the hallway, they would put a blanket over their head to help block light, noise, or try to get some sleep with people walking past. Also, OP is in pain and alone, so maybe some understanding would be nice. I could see how she would see OP making her shift harder, but again he can’t move, in pain, and alone.
But Op *was* making her shift harder, by forcing her to *actually do her job.* Notice how Op’s sitting in the hallway for a long time because there aren’t any rooms, but suddenly when it looks bad on the nurse she *magically* finds a room for OP.
There are some people who are nurses but cannot stand patient care, and normally work in the office, but occasionally need to work with patients, and are quite upset at this.
I once worked in a hospital kitchen, in the basement of the hospital. The hallway past the kitchen led to the pathology lab and while uncommon it was not unknown to find a gurney in the hallway with a covered body waiting to get into pathology. I would joke to my co-workers about how much our supervisors would get mad if we ran around saying, "Soylant Green is people!" Probably unconnected but in the next round of building the pathology lab got moved to a new location far away from the kitchen and with no direct connection.
Story 2: A number of Karens tend to have this "Mom knows best" mentality, which does not apply to the more scientific things such as illnesses. OP has experience in the medical field, they can tell if someone does or doesn't have asthma, regardless of age. To be honest, I don’t even know why the Karen was there.
I suspect a Munchausen-by-proxy complex. Some parents get a selfish thrill off of the attention they receive over their child being ill, so they'll fake it for attention. Some will even go so far as to deliberately keep their child genuinely sick for it.
Moms often do know best. When my younger brother was a newborn, he couldn't keep any food down (he was breastfed). Mom took him to the know-it-all pediatrician, who pretty much patted her on the head and told her she just has new mom jitters. My brother was the 5th child. As mom was leaving, brother projectile vomited across the room, covering the doc. He immediately sent brother to the hospital for emergency surgery. I don't know if he apologized for his condescension.
I think it's a balance. A mother (or parent/guardian) does know the child best. They would know if a child is acting funny or different. However, they are also human and can let bias/fears affect their view as well. A doctor/nurse is a great 3rd party with training. They should absolutely listen to the guardian's concerns but also look at the child with a clear mind. A guardian shouldn't be dismissed out or hand but at the same time they can absolutely be overreacting or just attention-seeking. This is obviously an idealistic view that doesn't always work in the real world but I feel it should be the goal.
@@freethebirds3578 nah, I'm gonna go with the opinions of the RNs and doctors. You know, the ones that diarrhea dumped their bank accounts just to attend school for and actually certified
I’m an X-ray tech… do NOT under any circumstances remove a cervical collar before you are cleared by XR or CT. I know it’s annoying and uncomfortable, but that collar is holding your neck in the correct position so that you don’t unknowingly injure yourself worse than you already are. The nurse shouldn’t have been rude about the blanket, but OP also never voiced that the light was an issue. Once OP did, the nurse solved the issue.
Last story (Post Office pick up). I'll take "Things that never happened, for $500." The suggestion by OP that the counter staff member should have given them the package because they asked nicely is ridiculous. If they then stood in front of that same person and put on this song and dance of getting the name of the next person in line, it would have to be a seriously badly trained staff member who then said "Sure, I'll give them the package." Frankly, I'm a little shocked that Dabney thought this was a great bit of pretty revenge that he would have enjoyed being part of. There are some people who get a little bit of authority and let it go to their head. The person at a Post Office counter insisting you present ID to prove you are indeed the person a parcel is meant for, is not one of those people. Just think how angry you would be as the real recipient if you found out somebody had snagged the delivery card from your letter box, gone to pick up that $2K computer you had ordered, and the Post Office staff member had given it to them because they asked nicely without ID, or asked the next person in line to use their ID to pick it up. Anybody who takes a second to think properly about the situation would realise just how much of a jerk the OP would have to be to think the Post Office staff member was in the wrong for refusing to give them the item without ID.
For a place like a post office? Oh hell yeah, they aren't paid enough to give more than about 1/3 of a shit. Same as the DMV. I remember back when I went to get my license, my glasses got destroyed a couple days before and I couldn't get them replaced. But I was able to get a copy of all the little eye test cards, and by memorizing the first few letters that I could see, I could figure out which template had the rest. So I took the eye test, flunked it, asked if I could go "clean my eyes out" and try again. Went to the bathroom, quickly memorized the full set, then re-took the test and got a perfect score. How anyone fell for that is beyond me, so I have to assume the person simply didn't care.
Second Story: Why is it always the RNs who have the most ego? This "I'M THE GATEKEEPER" attitude is one of the reasons why people on socialized health care can't access care, which is a big problem in my area. There was an incident within the last couple of years in my region where a child's mother was trying to get her to see the doctor, she had difficulty getting to the clinic, she was five minutes late to the appointment and the clinic hadn't given her much time to get down there in the first place despite understanding the girl was in distress. The doctor refused to see the little girl. The little girl ACTUALLY passed away from complications of severe asthma when her mother tried to take her to the hospital which was farther away, and as far as I know both the receptionist staff and doctor are still working in the area and their identities were protected. This was on the BBC news so you can probably look it up if you want.
I'm so glad someone else noticed this. Anyone who works with people knows how bad people can be. And nurses are often unfairly undermined. And if this story is to be believed, that woman was extremely rude. But based on the tone of how the story was written, I doubt we have a reliable narrator. The ego is visceral. And I fucking hate when people talk about patients the way she did at the beginning of the story.
First Story: What else was OP suppose to do? If the nurse wasn’t going to help OP be a bit comfortable then OP had to take matters into their own hands Second Story: Imagine trying to tell someone who has more knowledge about human health than a banshee of a Karen. This lady not only wasted everyone's time, but she is further about to waste her own time taking her child to the hospital when the kid is literally showing no signs of problems Third Story: This customer is insanely overdramatic. Wanting someone fired because they made a mistake is insane. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes; at least OP made that customer feel guilty for filing that complaint and for saying Steve should get fired Fourth Story: Lmao, I’d love to see that. I mean, the owner did what she asked 😂 Fifth Story: What OP did is whats called as beating the system and exploiting loopholes
The third story reminds me of that one story rslash covered before. A customer was being difficult and demands OP be fired. The manager pretended to fire OP in front of the customer. OP plays along and starts crying and stuff. Suddenly the customer starts feeling guilty and says it's not a big deal.
For the first story: Not sure what could’ve been done about the lights, but he definitely should NOT have taken the neck brace off! Until he gets a thorough physical exam and an x-Ray (and possibly a CT) to evaluate for vertebral and spinal cord damage, it’s too dangerous to remove the brace and risk paralysis or worse happening.
My mom is in the ER/ICU right now for a fall and had the brace on last night (it's off now) and kept demanding I take it off her (my mother is...kind of a pain in the butt). I just kept telling her no, not a doctor, protocol, trauma, etc. She kept getting ever more mad. On the up side, she had a concussion and almost certainly won't remember any of this today. Listening to this while I get ready to go here.
@@Stopfollowingmeplz8 Just waiting for somebody to call to take her home or let us know the concussion was bad enough that they need to keep her a day and she's not yet re-oriented to time and place. Yesterday she thought it was August of 1986 and my husband's name is Joe. By the end of the evening, we had the name correct and the date up to June of 2014, so that's nice.
@@BronzeDragon133 My best wishes to her for her recovery and you for the task of corralling her. ;D They say doctors make the worst patients, but parents are a close second...
Unfortunately, she’s not going to get slammed with a mondo bill, as the OP said they were in Canada. The worst the Karen can expect is a long wait to get the prescription for an inhaler that she was trying to skip the clinic line for.
OP said they lived in a Canadian city. So while the ambulance ride won't leave the Karen bankrupt, it'll still hurt her pocketbook. I can tell you for a fact that the province of Manitoba charges an uninsured person $250 per ambulance ride.
@@Mistfall254 For a ten grand charge they'd have had to used some type of support equipment, beyond what would be used for a transport. Here where I live (in the U.S.), the base ride is between five and six hundred, with no equipment used. So I'd estimate that the ride wouldn't have been much over three grand.
On that last story, letting a stranger use your details to pick up a package they claim is theirs is asking to be scammed, NEVER take that risk! I live in a country that has the same situation happen a lot. Yes, even the part about delivery people sometimes deciding not to deliver and automatically bringing packages to the pickup point, claiming that you 'weren't home' when they never even rang the doorbell. They do that to shave time off their route for stuff like apartment buildings where they need to travel by foot past a postbox for some time. Dumping in the card that says you weren't in is quicker. At the pickup point you need ID, they ask certain info that's on the box, (like house number) they put in your info into a computer system (or you write out some of the info on a document) and you sign something before you get the package. There is a reason for all that. The details are so that if the intended recipient complains about theft/destruction/tampering, they can come after the person whose info was registered at the pickup point for the issue because they gave the package to that person whole and untampered. Letting someone else use your info to pick up a package gives them every opportunity to claim YOU stole it, destroyed it, etc. So they can then ask for a refund, replacement or whatever. And YOU could get charged for the item the scammer stole in your name.
There was a story of someone who *WALKED AWAY* from a car accident, was coherent, talking to someone else, and thought they themselves were fine only for them to turn their neck one way, finish breaking their own neck and killings themselves by accident. The nurse lost her shit because she understood what was going on and you didn’t know shit but thought you know everything. They have you in a neck brace for a reason.
Still not a good reason to snap at a patient like a misbehaving child. It takes five seconds to explain why you shouldn’t take the brace off. It would have taken little effort to move OP a little bit so they weren’t under a light. There was no reason to snap about the blanket when it was her own fault
exactly. if i was in her position i'd do the exact same thing. i'd also laugh at the work around too. and tell my managers about the loophole, because that is just asking for someone to steal packages. because thats why that policy is there - to prevent people from stealing other people's mail.
@@abiean222 I suspect OP made (if not the whole thing, them at least) that part of the story up. I don't believe for a second that the Post Office staff member would have given them that parcel at all. I suspect that what they would have done is marked the delivery as not available for pick up due to suspicious circumstances, and had it taken out for to the door delivery the following day.
To add to this, if some random stranger ask me to receive their package for him and to also give him my information I would not do it, sounds like a new type of fraud to receive some random package from who knows where and who knows if there is something illegal in there or they could be trying to steal my information.
At first, I didn't understand what was the "malicious compliance" in the 2° story, since she got what she wanted. But then I remembered that ambulances cost up to 3,000 dollars. Ouch. That will definitely hurt that mom's pocket.
the neck brace thing - the "very worst" is that you have a fracture and taking off the neck brace causes you to become permanently paralyzed or die. Truly worst case is that you become permanently paralyzed, lose muscle function to your lungs, and slowly suffocate to death in the hospital hallway. It's not like you could wave an arm to flag someone down. Good times. Why didn't OP just ask the nurse to turn off the light or move the stretcher when the nurse stopped you the first time?
I'm a bit upset at the last story. My father used to work at postal services, and they have strict policy about checking identity. It may be upsetting to be in the situation where they refuse to give you your package because you forgot your papers, but it would be so much worse if they just give it to the first stranger using your name. You have no idea how many stories my father has about such cases. Some entitled persons once claimed that it's stupid to do such verifications because "I know who I am", to which my father blankly answered "Well, I have no idea who you are so you're not getting that package until you bring me your ID". He may have made a few exceptions when he knew the client, but even so, sometimes he'd still refuse because it's important to be responsible, as a professional as much as a client.
The thing about the person demanding Steve be fired, then being like, "OH SHIT HIRE HIM BACK WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU," is similar to something that I have experienced a few times at work. My dad and I work together running a small driving school for people who want to become truck drivers. Most of the time, I am outside working with the students learning how to back up the truck and trailer, and when I'm not doing that stuff, I'm usually in the passenger seat with the students while they learn how to drive a big rig on the road. Driving a truck isn't as easy as people think, and even at the best of times, you just have to go slower in a truck than people who drive cars are willing to accept. Every now and then, we have someone call us to complain about the way the truck was driving (usually asking why we weren't going the speed limit, or why we slowed down so early before a turn, or why the truck was stopped in the road after someone made a shifting mistake and had to start completely over). When you say to them something like, "Well sir, we were going slowly there because the speed limit on that road is 45mph, but the road is very narrow and quite twisty, and it was raining really hard, so in a truck with a student driver, it isn't safe to go much more than about 35mph. We try to teach these students to drive the truck safely, and that often requires driving more slowly than in a car. Would you prefer if we taught these very inexperienced drivers to drive recklessly? Also, would you volunteer to get in that passenger seat with someone who has never driven a truck, never pulled a trailer, and never shifted a gear, and then ride around with them all day as they learn to do all 3 of those three things at the same time? Keep in mind, we don't have any controls on the passenger side, like they do with teenagers learning to drive a car. We could really use at least 1 more instructor for behind the road." I've made it about 1/2 through that bit, usually to the part about, "well, we teach them to drive safely through the village where the school kids are running across the road" before the person on the phone is like, "Well yeah, of course I want them to drive safe. No you shouldn't be teaching them to speed in a big rig. Man it must be scary riding with these people. I wouldn't be calm enough to do it." They end up suddenly realizing that I, as a truck driving instructor, know more about how to drive a truck than some random jagoff who has forgotten that people don't emerge fully formed as adults who know how to opperate motor vehicles flawlessly. It's fucking great. Also, it's not scary to ride with the students at all. They already know how to drive. They just don't know how to drive a truck yet.
I have nothing against nurses and I definitely think they deserve respect. Having said that, I have to say that I have gone to the hospital twice in the past five years and both experiences were awful because of the people working there (this is also in 2 different cities). The first instance was the worst because I went to get a heart procedure done. They apparently miswrote my weight down (I weighed 131 and they put down 113) so when they weighed me again at 4 am the next morning, they thought I'd gained over 10 Ibs of water weight. They injected me with something to get rid of said water weight and by 6 am I almost passed out from dehydration and getting out of bed too much. I also strained my heart quite a bit. I didn't even get a real apology from them just a quick explanation the next morning on why I struggled so much. (My dad regretted not spending the night at the hospital with me but he's too old to be sleeping in a chair so I insisted he go home.)
I want to know what asthma mom was trying to pull because I've had chronic asthma since I was 9 months old. I've been to the ER for it, I've needed a double dose of emergency nebulizer treatment from a life threatening attack. Shes right that it "presents different in kids" because kids are more subceptable to panic which aggravates the symptoms and causes them to gasp like a big mouth bass on land. You hear the wheezing sound, like a broken squeaky toy clear as day, see their lips turning purple and the skin paling as their blood oxygen plummets. You literally can't speak, you can barely move, you're fighting for every breathe so you don't pass out. Its so obvious this girl was not having an attack so what was this mom doing? Just being a paranoid hypochondriac because the puff ran out? Trying to use the kid to get out of something and fishing fpr a doctor's note?
A walk in clinic is not the emergency room. If you are having an emergency, go to the EMERGENCY ROOM where you'll be triaged and prioritized accordingly.
I’m glad someone said it before me, but the reason they were so mad about the neck brace is that you could remove it without knowing there’s a spine injury then paralyze yourself. OP in the 1st story should probably just trust the people in the, what sounds like a, modern world class health system.
20 years as a firefighter / EMT. Arrived at a auto collision. One guy was walking around. I found out he'd be in the collision before I got to him he turned his head.... and dropped like a sack of potatoes. He had a severe neck injury, When he turned his the cervical bones slip sideways and severely damage his spinal cord.
While the 2nd story may have took place in Canada, I can tell you that ambulance ride may have ended costing the Karen money. I know for a fact that in the province of Manitoba, an ambulance can set back an uninsured person $250. It used to be $500, but that got knocked down about a decade ago (by a Conservative government, no less).
Story 3: I remember this post. I believe that the customer was just having a bad day and the inconvenience sent them over the edge, otherwise, why else would the customer be apologizing so profusely?
maybe the customer just never thought of the workers as people with lives and family thats dependent on them? a lot of entitled assholes have trouble seeing people they think inferior to them, such as retail workers, as actual human beings with thoughts and emotions and a life outside of serving them.
I wouldn't WANT a doctor doing a nurse's job. They almost never do them, so they will inevitably be bad at it. Like taking blood - I want the one doing this procedure multiple times a day not the one with a fancier title. I also know, that nurses are understaffed, overworked, underappreciated and can make your life hell or heaven. So of course I'll be nice. My brother was 9 years old, when his appendix blew up during a vacation in another country and almost died. Yes, this was the worst vacation of our life, how could you tell? When he could finally eat again, the kitchen staff came and asked what he wanted to eat for his first meal. Chicken. Anything else? Chicken? Okay, anything else? Chicken. My mom added in 'Some rice.' So what is on his plate that lunch? 3 chicken legs... And some rice. My brother looked at my mom and said: "That lady REALLY likes me." He barely finished one. We still remember that kindness to this day. It was a very scary time for my parents. They could barely remember the correct numbers to call. My mom was in hysterics. My brother was freaking dying. They didn't have enough time for a helicopter flight from Austria to Munich. That's 1 hour at most, I think. My brother couldn't stand up for his x-rays. The doctor wasn't sure, what had broken, but some gastrointestinal organ had. Then there was a pre-EU money problem. It was a Sunday, so good luck reaching anyone. So my dad told them to seize our car as insurance, that we would pay. He finally somehow remembered the insurance companies number (that he didn't know before or afterwards) and they confirmed, that we were insured. So they didn't take our car. The operation went really well and the scar is barely visible despite being very large. The closing guy did a fantastic job. But the best part was going home. My dad had to take my sister and me home, because school/kindergarden was starting up again. So my mom was stranded in Austria with my brother. The insurance company seriously expected a less than 10 year old child take a train from another country ALONE! After a massive operation! They refused to pay for a taxi from the hospital to the train station, my mother's ticket and a taxi from the other train station home... Nowadays you would have an internet shitstorm coming your way, but I guess it was different back then. After all this was over my dad became a member of ADAC, because they cover transportation home and are just easy to reach. We haven't needed them since thankfully. I was too young to really understand, but it was terrifying. The family, whose awesome house (10 chickens, 2 ducks, a mouse and a turtle) we were sitting obviously heard the news and they invited us back the next year for a MUCH better vacation.
That last story reminded me of my days working at a convenience store at the airport. We would get both normal and expedited passport deliveries, and usually people would come pick them up as they’re on their way to check in, sometimes running late. I lost count how many times customers came up to me and presented the wrong kind of ID that we didn’t accept when handling mail. The customers would start to get riled up because they have a flight to catch yadda yadda yaa. Without batting an eye I would cut them short and tell them that they’re at the airport, they can ask anyone (except the store employees) with a valid passport to pick theirs up with the form they have in their hands (the back of the pick-up paper). Surprised Pikachu faces all around. Some even asked if I’m pulling a prank on them. As long as they knew their pick-up code and had someone else present with a valid ID, that was all that was needed. Sold a few “thank you” coffees that way too 😉
the second story just reminds me that nurses are integral to good care and some places actually have a nursing shortage because of long work hours and short pay or bad working environments, much like the entitled parents you hear about, so be patient with your local nurses, they may not be perfect but they are human and mean well
Regarding that last story: My mom works in a german post office. If they hand out a package to someone eithout having the ID, they can straight up lose their jobs. That's why they rarely (If ever) make exceptions.
OP in the first story is the pinnacle of terrible patients in a hospital. If a C-collar is applied in the field, it will NOT be removed until an examination is conducted by a doctor. So sorry it's causing you pain, but it's a very big liability and for God's sake, it's for YOUR OWN SAFETY.
Sometimes I feel like the only way I can get a moment of peace is pretending to be dead. It never works for me, but I am envious of OP who managed to actually fool someone.
Glad the doctor took the side of the nurse in story 2. But they tied up an ambulance for some bs they should have dismissed from their triage. Hopefully, the citizen having a heart attack thinks having an ambulance tied up to teach a karen a lesson finds it just as funny as the nurse did.
Comment regarding the post office lady in Germany: She was not being malicious at all when she refused to make an exception!!! I live in Germany and worked for a post office while still in school. So, I know, she just followed our laws. In case she would make that exception she would break the LAW, be liable for any possible damages (wrong person picking up the package, etc.; People actually do steal other people's mail!) and her action would be grounds for an immediate dismissal. I know it does not make sense that it is completely fine to fill out the card and let the person next in line pick up your package but it is. I had to deal with a lot of irate customers out of the same reason. It can get quite scary when you are a teenage girl and an adult man is shouting/screaming at you while slaming his fists on the counter because you aren't allowed the give him his package without seeing his valid ID. So peole, please just be nice to the service workers!
Ok maybe it's because I'm an Asthmatic but I know exactly what was going on , and I can somewhat understand , if the woman had just asked she could have saved a lot of bother . She had run out of her inhaler and wanted a refill but her Gp was probably closed and I've been in this situation. However when I've been in this situation stress does set off my asthma and if you have an asthma attack at home with no inhaler its literally life or death. It's something you don't want to mess around with. I'm sure if this lady had just said her child has been needing to use their inhaler a lot and has ran out and I'm worried that if they have an asthma attack at home it would be too late, could I get one replacement Now granted if this is America I don't exactly know how your health care works , because I know you don't have universal health care and have to pay marked up prices for prescription where as we have no over the counter cost But here in Northern Ireland (UK) they can give you one, alternatively you can get a prescription from the Drs out of hours team if there is a pharmacy open . One thing I do envy is the US has a 24 hour pharmacy to collect a prescription. But here where I live the latest we have pharmacy open is 9pm weekdays 7pm Saturday and 6pm Sunday. Sometimes the only option is hospital. So I don't blame her for panicking, she should have explained it better. For those on here who also have asthma. If you can't get an inhaler or you've ran out I have Found in the past 2 years Vic nasal stick which is used for stuff noses or Vic vapour rub in water can ease symptoms a bit. But Asthma is nothing to mess around with. There have been so many stories where a teacher's , a parent or uncle have ignored a child with asthma during an attack and that child has died because they had no inhaler
Imagine if, in the "angry customer" story, the OP would also notify, that it was later discovered 'steve' was secretly keeping delivery details of all the complaining customers on his workstation, including home address of the angry complainer. Unfortunately he was not found at his place and doesn't answer the phone.
The doctor who called the ambulance not only wasted her entire night at the hospital for no reason, but also at least $500 ambulance fee (assuming she has decent insurance). The price of being an entitled, stupid person.
That one where OP gets hired by the game shop's manager just to be fired is gold. Wish there would have been more to describe the karen's face when that happened.
Confused how the last story is a considered a petty revenge story or malicious compliance story either. OP knowing the rules but forgetting to bring his ID (who doesn't automatically bring their ID with them to go to government places anyways?) is just carelessness on OP's side. Thinking that he could try and "sweet talk" his way to getting his package shows how OP is clearly not thinking straight. Giving packages to anybody without IDs and relying on their word that they are the person is just asking that worker to get fired and possibly fined depending on the value of the item they gave away to a random stranger. Another reason why I'm unsure why it's considered petty revenge or malicious compliance is that...the post office worker most likely doesn't care. If you wanna ask a re random stranger to sign out your package, trusting that they won't just walk off with it afterwards, then go ahead. I'm not seeing any revenge there. I'm not seeing any malicious compliance either, just someone finding a loophole cause I doubt the post office worker felt embarrassed or thought anything about it after handing over the package. Maybe I'm missing something...
I was a customer service sales rep for a well known high end women's clothing store/catalog. The call center where I worked was in the same building as the warehouse for the whole company. I get a call from a woman who had already placed an order and received it in 2 days but we sent her the wrong size. We guarantee 7-10 day delivery, this is important. I told her that not only would I send her a return envelope to put the item in and just drop it in the mail to return it, but I'd expedite the correct size to her immediately and how sorry I was for the mistake and would put in that she get 20% off her next order. I'll never forget her next words because it shocked me. "That's not enough, you're a big company and can afford to do more for me over this." I passed her off to a supervisor.
Know who else doesnt feel pain in their neck after an accident? People who take off their C-Collar and end up paralyzing (or worse) themselves due to an unstabilized injury that they couldnt feel in the first place, or thought a collar was "overkill"
When my sister was little she had a situation similar to the toddler in the story where she was having trouble breathing and my dad took her to the hospital where they waited for a long time. After seeing my sister running around the Christmas tree without any sign of distress he decided she was fine and brought her home.
I wouldn't really put that first story into malicious compliance. More like stories from a hospital or something? 😅 "I was mistaken for a dead body at a hospital" Hearing it gave me a good laugh 😂
I remember confusing the EMTs and the Nurses with a neck brace. I have an issue where my body paralyzes itself for 24-28 hours. Still don’t know why. The EMTs were loading me into the ambulance and I requested a neck brace. When asked why, I told them I can’t hold my head still and got whiplash from the last ambulance ride. Got to the hospital and had to explain it again. At least they understood why.
1:40 I was in a couple of car accidents horrible back pain horrible neck pain and was left in hallways and the only people that took any interest in how I was feeling for the goddamn custodians. I was in so much pain at one point that I was just crying I didn't even realize that the tears were just running down my face and nurses walked baby doctors walked by me and the only person that actually took an interest in cut me a tissue and wiped my face for me was one of the housekeeper's
The first thing that came to mind during the neck brace story is a story i heard about a guy who got into a horrific car accident only to escape completely unscathed. He thought he felt fine and then he stood up and turned his head to the left very quickly and broke his neck and killed himself. Turns out he had an issue with his neck but didn't know and wasn't in any pain. This is why you should not take off the neck brace until doctors clear you.
14:25 - Post office employees pretending you're not home. There was a scandal about this a few years back in Britain. A certain lady was working in her front garden, when a post office van pulled up. The driver handed her a card saying "We tried to deliver .. but you were out." Confused, the lady says she's not out, but is standing right in front of the guy, and could she have her parcel, please? "Oh no, we never put them in the van. You'll have to come and collect it." The annoyed lady writes to a newspaper. Her letter is published, and within forty-eight hours the paper is deluged with letters saying "That happened to me, too." This led to pointed questions being asked at government level - and deputy heads had to roll.
The postal story reminded me of an incident I experienced years ago.. and I’m pretty sure it was at a US Post office. Clerk: I can’t take this credit card, it’s not signed. Me: I have a photo ID to prove it’s my card. Clerk: rules say I can’t take a card that isn’t signed.. Me: OK, can I borrow a pen to sign it? Clerk: no, you can’t sign it in front of me.. Me: so.. you would take this card if I signed it outside, without an ID.. but not if I sign it here and provide you with additional evidence that it’s my card?? Clerk: yes.. I have to follow the rules. I left without my stamps.
Last story: the beginning explanation of delivery drivers not ringing doorbells and just writing packages off as "no one home" isnt just Germany. Thats like the number one mail delivery meme around the world it feels.
I understand the sentiment of the nurse in the second story. My OLD managers at a grocery store would give into customers after I followed the rules and said no. That pissed me off so much. Like dont they understand that it makes me look incompetent.
That last story is cool and all, but highlights an enormous flaw in the post office’s system. It would be ridiculously easy for someone to steal a parcel card out of your mailbox, write their own name on the alternative pickup line, present ID and card and take your package with you none the wiser until you decided to enquire why it hadn’t arrived.
2nd story, even worse is that the moment they arrive at the er and gets a triage, thats at least 3 bills she will be expecting, Ambulance, Facility and ER Phys fee. and if asthma is the complaint, its likely possible there will also be the radiology bill for the chest X-ray and also quite possibly a seperate phys fee also for the pedia for the kid..... whooops. lets just hope they have a pretty good insurance coverage and lets hope the insurance wont deny the claim as a "not a medical necessity" . lol.
Karen: What's the diagnosis on my daughter, you fake? Are you even a doctor? I want to see a real doctor! Nurse: Well, I've come to the perfect conclusion. Your daughter is in amazing shape. But there's one condition. Karen: What's that?! Nurse: She needs a better mother.
I do not agree with what that 2nd doctor did. Using up emergency resources to teach a karen a lesson puts even more strain on the system. That IS negligence. Another patient could die or have severe health impacts because of an ambulance being made unavailable.
I have friends who live backing onto a beach, they got fed up strangers walking right past their kitchen window to cut through to the beach and back . They put a lock on their gate, they actually had the strangers complain and demand they unlock it so they could trespass with impunity! The kicker is the official pathway is only a few minutes walk away. LOL
I've heard the Steve story before; the previous stores of heard long long ago, but they're still funny. Similar to the Steve's Fired email, I got to write an interesting email as petty revenge. I'd find a roommate that turned out less than for which I'd hoped. Turned out he was a gay Christian skinhead white supremacist. This oddness was but one of his contradictory aspects. I didn't notice right off as I tend to keep to myself. He didn't have an issue with my having a cat, but eventually he realized not only was I was straight, but I happened not to be His Version of "christian." He was always eerily calm when speaking. At one point he and I had a "serious" discussion when it became clear the roommate he wanted at _least_ should be gay (he denied, rather lamely, that he was hoping for someone with whom to get into a Significant Other type relationship). I grew up in theater, so I had no issue with his orientation, but it was during this talk I realized he was a white supremacist. I literally asked if he felt 1940s You Know Who was right in exterminating Jews. He deflected and wouldn't answer that one. Okay, I thought. Time to find a new place to live. At that time I had a graveyard shift at a call center, 10pm to 6am. It wasn't going to gig, I was lucky to only have to take maybe two calls per shift, during which I was able to do anything online with a high-speed connection, except obviously Adult Stuff. I have managed to find a new roommate, at a better location, for about the same amount of money. Steelhead guy had had a tendency of going into my room when I wasn't home. One time I literally walked in on him going through the boxes I had in my room, to which he current time and he was considering having my room painted, as though he had ever discussed that with me. No escape plan was simple. I'd put aside money to pay for the August rent. When he was out, I moved out my stuff to the new place. On the late day of July I would give him the August rent, and tell him it was my 30-day notice, and head out. The guy would still be up 1 month's rent, and we have that amount of time to find a new roommate. I thought it would work out perfectly well. This was long enough so smartphones weren't yet a thing; I had a pager, which is set to be Off from 10pm to 7am. Someone calling me would get voicemail, and I'd get paged, and call my voice mail. At one point checking my email there was one from him, furious. Puzzled, I checked my voice mail, and there he was, calmly expressing his fury that on entering my closed room (ignoring the fact he'd _again_ entered my closed room), he'd seen All my stuff gone. This was still July. Sure is not yet told him of my leaving, but I had no obligation to do so until August first. His voice mail conveyed my no longer being welcome, falsely claiming neighbours were instructed to call the police if I returned. Technically I had about ten days left for which I'd paid, but all my stuff and cat were already out of there. So I replied to his email; along these lines: "Dear [roommate], "I was surprised at your voice mail and email. I'm paid though July, and had set aside rent for August, when I would _then_ give you my 30-day notice, and you'd have payment for August, myself gone, and your having a month to find a new roommate who'll appreciate your insinuating yourself into their life and privacy. "Thankfully your Christian generosity is appreciated: by unlawfully kicking me out without notice, and prior to my current month's payment ending, you lawfully negate any and all obligations between us, such as my giving you August rent as I'd planned. "I'll return the key to the apartment manager, so avoid any confrontation. "Thanks again for your generously saving me paying you for August; clearly you have enough money on your own to handle your two-bedroom apartment rent for August yourself. "Any further voicemail will be deleted; I'll save as evidence Just In Case your current one, with your unlawfully kicking me out without notice despite my having paid for July." Yes I was repetitive, but I wanted to make sure he understood that he had no leg on which to stand, legally. I was aware apartment manager was a Russian Jew, so I mailed to him the key, indicating in my cover letter how I'd been kicked out without notice, and that it was more uncomfortable for me as it was to live with somebody who was as anti-semitic as was my skinhead roommate. A few days later I got a page. I checked my voice mail and there was my former roommate. To my regret, I hit Delete. To this day I wish I'd listened to hear what sort of inanity he had said...
Last story: The CSR was only doing their job. Management probably made it super clear that this rule needs to be followed in order to avoid package theft. OP would have been even more mad if someone had just claimed to be them to get the package and walked off with it on their word that they were the rightful recipient. People steal door tags from porches too, not just packages. OP knows it is their package, the CSR does not. Had that story been told from the perspective of the CSR, I'm sure this would be considered an entitled customer story. Let's please stop crapping on CSRs for simply doing their jobs; we put up with enough abuse.
I cracked up laughing at the first story in which the person with the neckbrace gets mistaken for a dead body. LOL. That nurse seemed very annoyed/ing as well lol.
Was in a clinic. It was ❄️🥶❄️ I did the same as OP. About half a minute later, a recitation crew appeared -a doctor, 3 nurses, and two auxiliary persons... 😅
It’s all fun and games until you think you know better than healthcare providers, take off your neck brace, and end up paralyzed or in chronic pain for the rest of your life. There is a REASON for the protocols!!
Tbh when I went to the hospital last, there was a trauma 1 car wreck patient with two black eyes, a broken neck, and several other issues crying to God just laying in the hallway and nurses and doctors not caring. My nurse was bitching about how she had to be there at work. I finally was like: yeah me and that guy don’t wanna be here I’m sure!
Nurses are vital and skilled and most of them deserve more credit than they get! They really are the heroes most of the time. But when you get the ones that puts their own inconvience over the panic of any patient (or parent of patient) then they need to step the fuck down and remember their training. The way that story started sounded like it belongs in r/AITA, and yes that nurse was the asshole. That they got offended because the doctors would "give in" and do their jobs and got annoyed because it undermined them is disgusting. Any story that followed is became irrelevant because of that opening, there is no redeeming that. It is arrogance that could possibly cost someone their life and they should be ashamed.
Nurse should've explained it to him and not been an ass, some nurses need fo realize not everyone has medical knowledge. My bestfriend is 10yrs older than me and he comes to me for advice sue to being a daughter of someone in medicine and taking a couple college courses myself. You can not feel anything is wrong but if you take it off, youre fucked. I had a trampoline accident where my niece came down feet first on my neck and while i was hurting, nothing like i couldve ir should've been and the ER doctor told my parents i had a hairline fracture and that if it wasn't for my niece being maybe 50-60 pounds and me still being young snd having rubbery bones, i would've had a break or internal decapitation. Just listen to the EMTS and nurses. Theyll take it off if they don't feel its necessary, well they wont put it on unless they feel its necessary.
0:12 paying attention to the age of the OP. Because it seems that young people get into more accidents than older people because older people dont know how to drive responsibly around younger people and the blame is that they are dumber or more immature. So gotta see if this is another to add into the collection of situations or not
last story: Sadly in the states with my local ups drivers they don't knock or ring bell they just walk to door leave a note, saying no one was home and to pick up the package from their warehouse, these assholes tend to be paid $48 an hour to be a delivery driver but I still have to pickup my packages from the warehouse. yeah that hasn't been happening lately since they got caught doing it on a 4k door bell camera.
Isn't the major difference between nurse and doctor, is that the doctor is fully educated and certified to understand and prescribe treatments and medications (doses)?
That nurse was a piece of work though. The least she could have done was try to make OP comfortable in the first place, not yell at them after, for all she knew, a traumatic physical event for trying to make themselves comfortable.
I remember being a child, rushed to the emergency room one night while having an asthma attack. Tired, scared, cold. A nice man who had been waiting a while got called by the receptionist but gestured to me, red-faced and heaving for breath and wheezing, and told her to take me first. I was too young to remember anything else except his kindness, even 20 years later. I hope I thanked him.
Some people never feel pain in their necks. Up to the point they turn their head the wrong way and Sever their own spine with their broken vertebrae. Never take the brace off until the doctors clear you.
That's a spooky thought. Especially if you are in any way inebriated and have little inhibitons at the moment
My wife broke her T2 vertebrae. She had so many injuries not even the hospital thought it was her worst. They put plates on it 2 days later. But if she had no collar on she would have been in worst shape from it. Long story short, you're right.
yeah, always trust doctors if they tell you to keep something on lolol
I heard a story about a guy that was in an accident and seemed fine, he asked for a drink and died when he tilted his head up to drink and either finished breaking his neck or his neck was already broken, but the bones were still in place, and the action separated them.
That’s absolutely untrue. It’s an old wives tail. There’s actually very little evidence that cervical collars provide any benefit at all.
The owner in the second to last story actually pulled of a mr krabs routine without being a douchebag.
"Patrick, you're fired!"
"But I don't work here?"
"You want a Job?"
"Sure!"
"Ok, you're fired!"
_[Spongebob laughter]_
To be fair, given that kind of situation, I don't think I'd have been able to stop myself doing that, either. XD
"Would you like a job starting now?"
"Boy would I"
"You're fired"
@@danielbrant6740 *_nNNNNAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAA!!!!!_*
Love that xD
13:13 I think this is my favorite "I don't work here, lady" story because the customer got what she wanted. She wanted OP fired. But the manager made it known that OP wasn't an employee when he did it.(and it doesn't count on OP's employment history)
What would've made this story slightly better is if OP said, "If I'm fired, can I at least use my employee discount for this stuff?"
Story 3: When someone offers free shipping to return a wrong item, take it. Companies will rarely do this.
Not true when it's the company's fault
You can actually sue them if they dont. I had stores, specially online ones try to pull this BS on me. I simply repliee that I would get in contact to my lawyer to "get informed" and they backtrack real quick because they know they will lose. If a company makes a mistake its their reponsibility to fix it without any cost to the customer. Theres no such thing as "whoops we sent the wrong item! Pls send it back it to us and pay the additional cost for new delivery"
I once bought a tshirt online. Where I live theres a law that say we have 7 days to "regret" an online purchase, meaning we can return it and have a full refund (unleas we damage the product). So I got this tshirt and unfortunally it didnt fit me. I've contacted the store 5 days later and asked if they could change sizes. They said that was only allowed on the firat 4 days. So I said, ok then I want to cancel my purchase and have a refund. The BS started. First they tried saying "but our store only allows refund on the first 4 days", I said no, the stores rules are not above the actual law, and sent a copy of said law. Then they said "fine! we'll send you the cost to shipping the shirt back to us!", again I said no, according to the law I have no obligation to pay anything to return the product. They started trying to BS their way again, so I just sent a final email saying that I would be contacting my lawyer and ask him about this. It took less than 3 minutes for them to reply to that email saying they would pay to get the shirt back and sent my refund.
None of this would have happened if they just have allowed me to exchange the shirat size.
A doctor standing up for the nurse? Heck yeah.
The neck brace story. Just because they didn’t feel hurt doesn’t mean that a X-ray or exam couldn’t reveal damage. Also taking it off before confirming that could make a minor injury worse.
The nurse should have taken a few seconds to figure out what else could have been done to make the patient more comfortable while waiting to be seen though.
i have.. NO medical experience, but i feel like something could hurt if it moves since thats a change in the position and stuff (i may just be using fancy words or whatever its not intentional-)
@@toasterhavingabath6980nah op is right. Your neck could be broken and you not feel it due to shock or nerve damage. Dad saved the life of a dude with a internal decapitation and he thought he was fine but thankfully my dad was a medic and knee immediately what was going on and called in a med helo and saved him. They said if my dad wasn't behind him when the wreck happened guy would've been dead
He also could’ve asked the nurse
I got in a massive car accident about 30 years ago, the x-rays were good enough and according to my insurance I was just FINE!!!!!!!!!!
Story 1: once, I was taken to the ER in an ambulance and left on the stretcher on the side of a hallway for like 45 minutes. The nurse who dropped me off told me to take deep breaths, then another came around to get my blood pressure without a word. I closed my eyes and focused on breathing. A third nurse walked up and asked the second, “have you done it yet?”
To which the third responded in an annoyed whisper, “no - I’m trying to, but she’s hyperventilating!”
🙄 they must put the dumb ones out in the hallway.
The second story makes me SO MAD. I'm a medical student about to begin my internship year, and I have been surrounded by medical professionals my whole life. My mother is a nurse. To see people just assume nurses don't have to constantly re-educate themselves and actualize their knowledge, or that they don't study is one thing that can instantly make me dislike a person. Nurses, most of the time, are smart, hardworking, and kind. And I take a lot of offence to hearing people demean them as being "lesser doctors" or "less intelligent than doctors" or what BULLSHIT opinion people feel entitled to have about them.
i feel like i’ve been unlucky, but i’ve been to the hospital a good couple times in my life, the nurses have always been the rudest, most abrasive, and uncaring people i have ever met, to the point where i avoid hospitals at all costs, my last straw was a nurse berating me for a car accident that id just been in, i was 17, i just up and ripped the neck brace off after a couple minutes of her BS and stormed off, bad decision, i know, but the adrenaline was running so high and she wasn’t letting off, saying they need to drug test me because i’m “obviously on something,” (i wasn’t) the doctor stopped me and did convince me to still let her check my neck, which was thankfully fine, but i will never return if i have the option to not go
I’m a few years ahead of you.
When I was a medical student ive had nurses act extremely obnoxious toward me.
Ever since I’ve graduated residency I’ve never had a nurse act rude toward me.
@razzberry4756 I'm so sorry you had that experience. Maybe my experience is limited. I live in a small city and I've had gone to small hospitals, so maybe that's why. Even then, not all of them are kind. Some are really condescending and rude. Some have superiority complex. But in my limited experience the majority have been really good people.
Watching so many of these Reddit reads has given me a hyperbolic view of entitled customers, like they actually believe "YOUR EMPLOYEE MILDLY INCONVENIENCED ME, I DEMAND THEY BECOME HOMELESS AND STARVING IN THE STREETS FOR THIS INJUSTICE!". It's good to see one of them get what they supposedly wanted and backpedal once a shred of empathy kicks in and they realize "oh, destroying someone's life over my mild inconvenience is actually quite bad".
The fact people think nurses are less then doctors don’t know that 90%(I believe) of a lot of procedures are done by nurses
Ye I mean, docs and nurses do different stuff. Both are very deeply needed in a hospital
Right? Nurse taking blood vs doctor taking blood case and point
And I think there’s a lot of sexism involved. Nurses are usually women statistically so that’s one thing that makes some people think that they’re inherently less valuable.
I know doctors and nurses do different things, but the majority of patient interaction and actual procedures are done by nurses, for sure. I was in the hospital for a week and I saw my specialist doctor maybe once a day while I saw nurses - the same three nurses - at least once every few hours
the first 2 stories reminded me of my stay in the hospital recently, most of my experiences with nurses and doctors were good for the most part, but there was one nurse who really refused to listen to me. I was so incredibly weak that even sitting up was exhausting, and I fainted a bunch of times, nurses had to help me stand up to be weighed, and going to the bathroom was...a challange to say the least. the not listening nurse decided it was a good idea to have me sit up in a chair to help regain some strength. I didn't want to, I felt I was going to pass out again, and was going to vomit. she didn't listen. I'm in the chair for less than a second and warn her I'll vomit. she ignores me. the closes vomit baggy was across the room, too far away for me to reach without falling over again. so, my options were limited. I rang the nurses bell with my last strength, vomit on the floor, and pass out on the bed. she had to clean it up, but hey, I tried to warn her numerous times.
I hope you filed a complaint... Because how many other patients has she done that to? And how many more before her arrogance causes a massive problem?
@@ShadowReignhart oh I did, if it was just the one time it'd be bad enough, but at one point she wouldn't help me go to the bathroom and said I could walk there myself, part of the reason I was in the hospital was because I just had my big toe amputated, so walking wasn't really in the cards at that point.
To anyone finding themselves in Neck Brace OP's situation: *request a sleep mask.* Hospitals have those little blindfoldy eye-shade things you also find on aeroplanes (both places where people often want to sleep while lights are on).
I can't fault OP too much for trying to mitigate their discomfort during a long wait, but they might have realised the visual of someone with a blanket over their face on a hospital gurney is, um... striking...
I get the nurse being a bit agitated with OP was trying to take off his neck brace because OP could make his injury worse , but getting mad at OP because someone else thought he was dead was entirely not needed. If a patient is in the hallway, they would put a blanket over their head to help block light, noise, or try to get some sleep with people walking past. Also, OP is in pain and alone, so maybe some understanding would be nice. I could see how she would see OP making her shift harder, but again he can’t move, in pain, and alone.
But Op *was* making her shift harder, by forcing her to *actually do her job.*
Notice how Op’s sitting in the hallway for a long time because there aren’t any rooms, but suddenly when it looks bad on the nurse she *magically* finds a room for OP.
@@RealCoolstriker64yeah because it’s an emergency room with beds constantly being emptied and cleaned
@@missm2925People don't seem to know how hospitals work, specially in the emergency section.
There are some people who are nurses but cannot stand patient care, and normally work in the office, but occasionally need to work with patients, and are quite upset at this.
I once worked in a hospital kitchen, in the basement of the hospital. The hallway past the kitchen led to the pathology lab and while uncommon it was not unknown to find a gurney in the hallway with a covered body waiting to get into pathology. I would joke to my co-workers about how much our supervisors would get mad if we ran around saying, "Soylant Green is people!" Probably unconnected but in the next round of building the pathology lab got moved to a new location far away from the kitchen and with no direct connection.
Makes me happy to see Rslash with a happy spirit, thumbnails and commentary is just getting better
true
Sometimes he turns into a massive Karen himself tough.
@@Some_Guy6 ALSO TRUEE
@@Some_Guy6 he is working on that
@@justaperson4656 the vacation helped xD
Story 2: A number of Karens tend to have this "Mom knows best" mentality, which does not apply to the more scientific things such as illnesses. OP has experience in the medical field, they can tell if someone does or doesn't have asthma, regardless of age. To be honest, I don’t even know why the Karen was there.
I suspect a Munchausen-by-proxy complex. Some parents get a selfish thrill off of the attention they receive over their child being ill, so they'll fake it for attention. Some will even go so far as to deliberately keep their child genuinely sick for it.
Moms often do know best. When my younger brother was a newborn, he couldn't keep any food down (he was breastfed). Mom took him to the know-it-all pediatrician, who pretty much patted her on the head and told her she just has new mom jitters. My brother was the 5th child.
As mom was leaving, brother projectile vomited across the room, covering the doc.
He immediately sent brother to the hospital for emergency surgery. I don't know if he apologized for his condescension.
Anecdotal evidence of maternal clairvoyance is insignificant, against the knowledge of most doctors.
I think it's a balance. A mother (or parent/guardian) does know the child best. They would know if a child is acting funny or different. However, they are also human and can let bias/fears affect their view as well. A doctor/nurse is a great 3rd party with training. They should absolutely listen to the guardian's concerns but also look at the child with a clear mind. A guardian shouldn't be dismissed out or hand but at the same time they can absolutely be overreacting or just attention-seeking. This is obviously an idealistic view that doesn't always work in the real world but I feel it should be the goal.
@@freethebirds3578 nah, I'm gonna go with the opinions of the RNs and doctors. You know, the ones that diarrhea dumped their bank accounts just to attend school for and actually certified
I’m an X-ray tech… do NOT under any circumstances remove a cervical collar before you are cleared by XR or CT. I know it’s annoying and uncomfortable, but that collar is holding your neck in the correct position so that you don’t unknowingly injure yourself worse than you already are. The nurse shouldn’t have been rude about the blanket, but OP also never voiced that the light was an issue. Once OP did, the nurse solved the issue.
Last story (Post Office pick up). I'll take "Things that never happened, for $500."
The suggestion by OP that the counter staff member should have given them the package because they asked nicely is ridiculous. If they then stood in front of that same person and put on this song and dance of getting the name of the next person in line, it would have to be a seriously badly trained staff member who then said "Sure, I'll give them the package."
Frankly, I'm a little shocked that Dabney thought this was a great bit of pretty revenge that he would have enjoyed being part of. There are some people who get a little bit of authority and let it go to their head. The person at a Post Office counter insisting you present ID to prove you are indeed the person a parcel is meant for, is not one of those people.
Just think how angry you would be as the real recipient if you found out somebody had snagged the delivery card from your letter box, gone to pick up that $2K computer you had ordered, and the Post Office staff member had given it to them because they asked nicely without ID, or asked the next person in line to use their ID to pick it up. Anybody who takes a second to think properly about the situation would realise just how much of a jerk the OP would have to be to think the Post Office staff member was in the wrong for refusing to give them the item without ID.
For a place like a post office? Oh hell yeah, they aren't paid enough to give more than about 1/3 of a shit. Same as the DMV. I remember back when I went to get my license, my glasses got destroyed a couple days before and I couldn't get them replaced. But I was able to get a copy of all the little eye test cards, and by memorizing the first few letters that I could see, I could figure out which template had the rest. So I took the eye test, flunked it, asked if I could go "clean my eyes out" and try again. Went to the bathroom, quickly memorized the full set, then re-took the test and got a perfect score. How anyone fell for that is beyond me, so I have to assume the person simply didn't care.
Second Story: Why is it always the RNs who have the most ego? This "I'M THE GATEKEEPER" attitude is one of the reasons why people on socialized health care can't access care, which is a big problem in my area. There was an incident within the last couple of years in my region where a child's mother was trying to get her to see the doctor, she had difficulty getting to the clinic, she was five minutes late to the appointment and the clinic hadn't given her much time to get down there in the first place despite understanding the girl was in distress. The doctor refused to see the little girl. The little girl ACTUALLY passed away from complications of severe asthma when her mother tried to take her to the hospital which was farther away, and as far as I know both the receptionist staff and doctor are still working in the area and their identities were protected. This was on the BBC news so you can probably look it up if you want.
I'm so glad someone else noticed this. Anyone who works with people knows how bad people can be. And nurses are often unfairly undermined. And if this story is to be believed, that woman was extremely rude. But based on the tone of how the story was written, I doubt we have a reliable narrator. The ego is visceral. And I fucking hate when people talk about patients the way she did at the beginning of the story.
First Story: What else was OP suppose to do? If the nurse wasn’t going to help OP be a bit comfortable then OP had to take matters into their own hands
Second Story: Imagine trying to tell someone who has more knowledge about human health than a banshee of a Karen. This lady not only wasted everyone's time, but she is further about to waste her own time taking her child to the hospital when the kid is literally showing no signs of problems
Third Story: This customer is insanely overdramatic. Wanting someone fired because they made a mistake is insane. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes; at least OP made that customer feel guilty for filing that complaint and for saying Steve should get fired
Fourth Story: Lmao, I’d love to see that. I mean, the owner did what she asked 😂
Fifth Story: What OP did is whats called as beating the system and exploiting loopholes
Totally agree 100%
Manchausen by Proxy seems extremely likely here.
The third story reminds me of that one story rslash covered before. A customer was being difficult and demands OP be fired. The manager pretended to fire OP in front of the customer. OP plays along and starts crying and stuff. Suddenly the customer starts feeling guilty and says it's not a big deal.
For the first story: Not sure what could’ve been done about the lights, but he definitely should NOT have taken the neck brace off! Until he gets a thorough physical exam and an x-Ray (and possibly a CT) to evaluate for vertebral and spinal cord damage, it’s too dangerous to remove the brace and risk paralysis or worse happening.
@@koolkittykat04 exactly
I’d bet money the Karen in the 2nd story was using the puffers to get high and was using her child as an excuse
I assumed she had recently developed Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, but I suppose Occam's razor would favor your explanation
You can get high from an asthma puffer?
My mom is in the ER/ICU right now for a fall and had the brace on last night (it's off now) and kept demanding I take it off her (my mother is...kind of a pain in the butt). I just kept telling her no, not a doctor, protocol, trauma, etc. She kept getting ever more mad.
On the up side, she had a concussion and almost certainly won't remember any of this today. Listening to this while I get ready to go here.
Hope everything turns out alright!
@@Stopfollowingmeplz8 Just waiting for somebody to call to take her home or let us know the concussion was bad enough that they need to keep her a day and she's not yet re-oriented to time and place.
Yesterday she thought it was August of 1986 and my husband's name is Joe. By the end of the evening, we had the name correct and the date up to June of 2014, so that's nice.
@@BronzeDragon133 My best wishes to her for her recovery and you for the task of corralling her. ;D They say doctors make the worst patients, but parents are a close second...
best wishes to her and the rest of your family! Medical stuff is scary enough, but brain injuries/concussions are even moreso
I hope the lady in story 2 has great insurance, because that ambulance probably cost a fortune.
$10,000-100,000 I think
Unfortunately, she’s not going to get slammed with a mondo bill, as the OP said they were in Canada. The worst the Karen can expect is a long wait to get the prescription for an inhaler that she was trying to skip the clinic line for.
OP said they lived in a Canadian city. So while the ambulance ride won't leave the Karen bankrupt, it'll still hurt her pocketbook. I can tell you for a fact that the province of Manitoba charges an uninsured person $250 per ambulance ride.
I pay 85 dollars for an ambulance ride in British Columbia Canada
@@Mistfall254 For a ten grand charge they'd have had to used some type of support equipment, beyond what would be used for a transport. Here where I live (in the U.S.), the base ride is between five and six hundred, with no equipment used. So I'd estimate that the ride wouldn't have been much over three grand.
On that last story, letting a stranger use your details to pick up a package they claim is theirs is asking to be scammed, NEVER take that risk!
I live in a country that has the same situation happen a lot. Yes, even the part about delivery people sometimes deciding not to deliver and automatically bringing packages to the pickup point, claiming that you 'weren't home' when they never even rang the doorbell. They do that to shave time off their route for stuff like apartment buildings where they need to travel by foot past a postbox for some time. Dumping in the card that says you weren't in is quicker.
At the pickup point you need ID, they ask certain info that's on the box, (like house number) they put in your info into a computer system (or you write out some of the info on a document) and you sign something before you get the package. There is a reason for all that. The details are so that if the intended recipient complains about theft/destruction/tampering, they can come after the person whose info was registered at the pickup point for the issue because they gave the package to that person whole and untampered. Letting someone else use your info to pick up a package gives them every opportunity to claim YOU stole it, destroyed it, etc. So they can then ask for a refund, replacement or whatever. And YOU could get charged for the item the scammer stole in your name.
There was a story of someone who *WALKED AWAY* from a car accident, was coherent, talking to someone else, and thought they themselves were fine only for them to turn their neck one way, finish breaking their own neck and killings themselves by accident. The nurse lost her shit because she understood what was going on and you didn’t know shit but thought you know everything. They have you in a neck brace for a reason.
Still not a good reason to snap at a patient like a misbehaving child. It takes five seconds to explain why you shouldn’t take the brace off. It would have taken little effort to move OP a little bit so they weren’t under a light. There was no reason to snap about the blanket when it was her own fault
@dimsufferer9951 The OP just wanted their own room and got one. They're an assholez but I appreciate the hustle. Or is it hassle?
The post office lady was literally just doing her job and you know the rules. Why would she make an exception for you?
exactly. if i was in her position i'd do the exact same thing. i'd also laugh at the work around too. and tell my managers about the loophole, because that is just asking for someone to steal packages. because thats why that policy is there - to prevent people from stealing other people's mail.
@@abiean222 I suspect OP made (if not the whole thing, them at least) that part of the story up. I don't believe for a second that the Post Office staff member would have given them that parcel at all.
I suspect that what they would have done is marked the delivery as not available for pick up due to suspicious circumstances, and had it taken out for to the door delivery the following day.
@@damionlee7658 if that was in Brazil, for sure all that happened as she said
@@willrandalliter9181 It was Germany.
To add to this, if some random stranger ask me to receive their package for him and to also give him my information I would not do it, sounds like a new type of fraud to receive some random package from who knows where and who knows if there is something illegal in there or they could be trying to steal my information.
I love the game store story. OP you’re hired. OP you’re fired. I would have looooved to see the look on the lady’s face when that happened
At first, I didn't understand what was the "malicious compliance" in the 2° story, since she got what she wanted. But then I remembered that ambulances cost up to 3,000 dollars. Ouch. That will definitely hurt that mom's pocket.
the neck brace thing - the "very worst" is that you have a fracture and taking off the neck brace causes you to become permanently paralyzed or die. Truly worst case is that you become permanently paralyzed, lose muscle function to your lungs, and slowly suffocate to death in the hospital hallway. It's not like you could wave an arm to flag someone down. Good times.
Why didn't OP just ask the nurse to turn off the light or move the stretcher when the nurse stopped you the first time?
I'm a bit upset at the last story. My father used to work at postal services, and they have strict policy about checking identity. It may be upsetting to be in the situation where they refuse to give you your package because you forgot your papers, but it would be so much worse if they just give it to the first stranger using your name.
You have no idea how many stories my father has about such cases. Some entitled persons once claimed that it's stupid to do such verifications because "I know who I am", to which my father blankly answered "Well, I have no idea who you are so you're not getting that package until you bring me your ID". He may have made a few exceptions when he knew the client, but even so, sometimes he'd still refuse because it's important to be responsible, as a professional as much as a client.
Last story: Rules are rules, and if I'd been that postal worker, I'd laugh my butt off.
The thing about the person demanding Steve be fired, then being like, "OH SHIT HIRE HIM BACK WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU," is similar to something that I have experienced a few times at work. My dad and I work together running a small driving school for people who want to become truck drivers. Most of the time, I am outside working with the students learning how to back up the truck and trailer, and when I'm not doing that stuff, I'm usually in the passenger seat with the students while they learn how to drive a big rig on the road. Driving a truck isn't as easy as people think, and even at the best of times, you just have to go slower in a truck than people who drive cars are willing to accept. Every now and then, we have someone call us to complain about the way the truck was driving (usually asking why we weren't going the speed limit, or why we slowed down so early before a turn, or why the truck was stopped in the road after someone made a shifting mistake and had to start completely over). When you say to them something like, "Well sir, we were going slowly there because the speed limit on that road is 45mph, but the road is very narrow and quite twisty, and it was raining really hard, so in a truck with a student driver, it isn't safe to go much more than about 35mph. We try to teach these students to drive the truck safely, and that often requires driving more slowly than in a car. Would you prefer if we taught these very inexperienced drivers to drive recklessly? Also, would you volunteer to get in that passenger seat with someone who has never driven a truck, never pulled a trailer, and never shifted a gear, and then ride around with them all day as they learn to do all 3 of those three things at the same time? Keep in mind, we don't have any controls on the passenger side, like they do with teenagers learning to drive a car. We could really use at least 1 more instructor for behind the road." I've made it about 1/2 through that bit, usually to the part about, "well, we teach them to drive safely through the village where the school kids are running across the road" before the person on the phone is like, "Well yeah, of course I want them to drive safe. No you shouldn't be teaching them to speed in a big rig. Man it must be scary riding with these people. I wouldn't be calm enough to do it." They end up suddenly realizing that I, as a truck driving instructor, know more about how to drive a truck than some random jagoff who has forgotten that people don't emerge fully formed as adults who know how to opperate motor vehicles flawlessly. It's fucking great.
Also, it's not scary to ride with the students at all. They already know how to drive. They just don't know how to drive a truck yet.
I have nothing against nurses and I definitely think they deserve respect. Having said that, I have to say that I have gone to the hospital twice in the past five years and both experiences were awful because of the people working there (this is also in 2 different cities). The first instance was the worst because I went to get a heart procedure done. They apparently miswrote my weight down (I weighed 131 and they put down 113) so when they weighed me again at 4 am the next morning, they thought I'd gained over 10 Ibs of water weight. They injected me with something to get rid of said water weight and by 6 am I almost passed out from dehydration and getting out of bed too much. I also strained my heart quite a bit. I didn't even get a real apology from them just a quick explanation the next morning on why I struggled so much. (My dad regretted not spending the night at the hospital with me but he's too old to be sleeping in a chair so I insisted he go home.)
i mean, the employee in the last story might have inconvenienced you but i rather have that then have them hand out my stuff to whoever
I want to know what asthma mom was trying to pull because I've had chronic asthma since I was 9 months old. I've been to the ER for it, I've needed a double dose of emergency nebulizer treatment from a life threatening attack. Shes right that it "presents different in kids" because kids are more subceptable to panic which aggravates the symptoms and causes them to gasp like a big mouth bass on land. You hear the wheezing sound, like a broken squeaky toy clear as day, see their lips turning purple and the skin paling as their blood oxygen plummets. You literally can't speak, you can barely move, you're fighting for every breathe so you don't pass out.
Its so obvious this girl was not having an attack so what was this mom doing? Just being a paranoid hypochondriac because the puff ran out? Trying to use the kid to get out of something and fishing fpr a doctor's note?
A walk in clinic is not the emergency room. If you are having an emergency, go to the EMERGENCY ROOM where you'll be triaged and prioritized accordingly.
I’m glad someone said it before me, but the reason they were so mad about the neck brace is that you could remove it without knowing there’s a spine injury then paralyze yourself. OP in the 1st story should probably just trust the people in the, what sounds like a, modern world class health system.
20 years as a firefighter / EMT. Arrived at a auto collision. One guy was walking around. I found out he'd be in the collision before I got to him he turned his head.... and dropped like a sack of potatoes. He had a severe neck injury, When he turned his the cervical bones slip sideways and severely damage his spinal cord.
You sure showed that postal worker who would have probably lost their job if they didn't follow policy.
While the 2nd story may have took place in Canada, I can tell you that ambulance ride may have ended costing the Karen money. I know for a fact that in the province of Manitoba, an ambulance can set back an uninsured person $250. It used to be $500, but that got knocked down about a decade ago (by a Conservative government, no less).
Story 3: I remember this post. I believe that the customer was just having a bad day and the inconvenience sent them over the edge, otherwise, why else would the customer be apologizing so profusely?
maybe the customer just never thought of the workers as people with lives and family thats dependent on them? a lot of entitled assholes have trouble seeing people they think inferior to them, such as retail workers, as actual human beings with thoughts and emotions and a life outside of serving them.
Story 2: What was that karen hoping to get besides a bill?
I wouldn't WANT a doctor doing a nurse's job. They almost never do them, so they will inevitably be bad at it. Like taking blood - I want the one doing this procedure multiple times a day not the one with a fancier title.
I also know, that nurses are understaffed, overworked, underappreciated and can make your life hell or heaven. So of course I'll be nice.
My brother was 9 years old, when his appendix blew up during a vacation in another country and almost died. Yes, this was the worst vacation of our life, how could you tell?
When he could finally eat again, the kitchen staff came and asked what he wanted to eat for his first meal. Chicken. Anything else? Chicken? Okay, anything else? Chicken. My mom added in 'Some rice.' So what is on his plate that lunch? 3 chicken legs... And some rice. My brother looked at my mom and said: "That lady REALLY likes me." He barely finished one.
We still remember that kindness to this day. It was a very scary time for my parents. They could barely remember the correct numbers to call. My mom was in hysterics. My brother was freaking dying. They didn't have enough time for a helicopter flight from Austria to Munich. That's 1 hour at most, I think. My brother couldn't stand up for his x-rays. The doctor wasn't sure, what had broken, but some gastrointestinal organ had.
Then there was a pre-EU money problem. It was a Sunday, so good luck reaching anyone. So my dad told them to seize our car as insurance, that we would pay. He finally somehow remembered the insurance companies number (that he didn't know before or afterwards) and they confirmed, that we were insured. So they didn't take our car.
The operation went really well and the scar is barely visible despite being very large. The closing guy did a fantastic job.
But the best part was going home. My dad had to take my sister and me home, because school/kindergarden was starting up again. So my mom was stranded in Austria with my brother.
The insurance company seriously expected a less than 10 year old child take a train from another country ALONE! After a massive operation! They refused to pay for a taxi from the hospital to the train station, my mother's ticket and a taxi from the other train station home... Nowadays you would have an internet shitstorm coming your way, but I guess it was different back then.
After all this was over my dad became a member of ADAC, because they cover transportation home and are just easy to reach. We haven't needed them since thankfully. I was too young to really understand, but it was terrifying.
The family, whose awesome house (10 chickens, 2 ducks, a mouse and a turtle) we were sitting obviously heard the news and they invited us back the next year for a MUCH better vacation.
Story 2: Wow, 5 hours? That's gotta be one of the quickest walk in clinics in all of Canada!
The Karen being demeaning to the nurse pissed me off.
Nurses have more medical knowledge in their left foot than any layman. Never underestimate them.
That last story reminded me of my days working at a convenience store at the airport. We would get both normal and expedited passport deliveries, and usually people would come pick them up as they’re on their way to check in, sometimes running late. I lost count how many times customers came up to me and presented the wrong kind of ID that we didn’t accept when handling mail. The customers would start to get riled up because they have a flight to catch yadda yadda yaa. Without batting an eye I would cut them short and tell them that they’re at the airport, they can ask anyone (except the store employees) with a valid passport to pick theirs up with the form they have in their hands (the back of the pick-up paper). Surprised Pikachu faces all around. Some even asked if I’m pulling a prank on them. As long as they knew their pick-up code and had someone else present with a valid ID, that was all that was needed. Sold a few “thank you” coffees that way too 😉
the second story just reminds me that nurses are integral to good care and some places actually have a nursing shortage because of long work hours and short pay or bad working environments, much like the entitled parents you hear about, so be patient with your local nurses, they may not be perfect but they are human and mean well
I feel like the 1st story is more of a TIFU than a malicious compliance.
Regarding that last story:
My mom works in a german post office.
If they hand out a package to someone eithout having the ID, they can straight up lose their jobs. That's why they rarely (If ever) make exceptions.
OP in the first story is the pinnacle of terrible patients in a hospital. If a C-collar is applied in the field, it will NOT be removed until an examination is conducted by a doctor. So sorry it's causing you pain, but it's a very big liability and for God's sake, it's for YOUR OWN SAFETY.
Sometimes I feel like the only way I can get a moment of peace is pretending to be dead. It never works for me, but I am envious of OP who managed to actually fool someone.
Glad the doctor took the side of the nurse in story 2. But they tied up an ambulance for some bs they should have dismissed from their triage. Hopefully, the citizen having a heart attack thinks having an ambulance tied up to teach a karen a lesson finds it just as funny as the nurse did.
Comment regarding the post office lady in Germany:
She was not being malicious at all when she refused to make an exception!!!
I live in Germany and worked for a post office while still in school. So, I know, she just followed our laws.
In case she would make that exception she would break the LAW, be liable for any possible damages (wrong person picking up the package, etc.; People actually do steal other people's mail!) and her action would be grounds for an immediate dismissal.
I know it does not make sense that it is completely fine to fill out the card and let the person next in line pick up your package but it is.
I had to deal with a lot of irate customers out of the same reason. It can get quite scary when you are a teenage girl and an adult man is shouting/screaming at you while slaming his fists on the counter because you aren't allowed the give him his package without seeing his valid ID.
So peole, please just be nice to the service workers!
Ok maybe it's because I'm an Asthmatic but I know exactly what was going on , and I can somewhat understand , if the woman had just asked she could have saved a lot of bother .
She had run out of her inhaler and wanted a refill but her Gp was probably closed and I've been in this situation.
However when I've been in this situation stress does set off my asthma and if you have an asthma attack at home with no inhaler its literally life or death.
It's something you don't want to mess around with. I'm sure if this lady had just said her child has been needing to use their inhaler a lot and has ran out and I'm worried that if they have an asthma attack at home it would be too late, could I get one replacement
Now granted if this is America I don't exactly know how your health care works , because I know you don't have universal health care and have to pay marked up prices for prescription where as we have no over the counter cost
But here in Northern Ireland (UK) they can give you one, alternatively you can get a prescription from the Drs out of hours team if there is a pharmacy open . One thing I do envy is the US has a 24 hour pharmacy to collect a prescription. But here where I live the latest we have pharmacy open is 9pm weekdays 7pm Saturday and 6pm Sunday. Sometimes the only option is hospital.
So I don't blame her for panicking, she should have explained it better.
For those on here who also have asthma. If you can't get an inhaler or you've ran out I have Found in the past 2 years Vic nasal stick which is used for stuff noses or Vic vapour rub in water can ease symptoms a bit.
But Asthma is nothing to mess around with. There have been so many stories where a teacher's , a parent or uncle have ignored a child with asthma during an attack and that child has died because they had no inhaler
Oh man, I would have LOVED to be part of that post office malicious compliance!
Imagine if, in the "angry customer" story, the OP would also notify, that it was later discovered 'steve' was secretly keeping delivery details of all the complaining customers on his workstation, including home address of the angry complainer. Unfortunately he was not found at his place and doesn't answer the phone.
The doctor who called the ambulance not only wasted her entire night at the hospital for no reason, but also at least $500 ambulance fee (assuming she has decent insurance). The price of being an entitled, stupid person.
That one where OP gets hired by the game shop's manager just to be fired is gold. Wish there would have been more to describe the karen's face when that happened.
Confused how the last story is a considered a petty revenge story or malicious compliance story either. OP knowing the rules but forgetting to bring his ID (who doesn't automatically bring their ID with them to go to government places anyways?) is just carelessness on OP's side. Thinking that he could try and "sweet talk" his way to getting his package shows how OP is clearly not thinking straight. Giving packages to anybody without IDs and relying on their word that they are the person is just asking that worker to get fired and possibly fined depending on the value of the item they gave away to a random stranger.
Another reason why I'm unsure why it's considered petty revenge or malicious compliance is that...the post office worker most likely doesn't care. If you wanna ask a re random stranger to sign out your package, trusting that they won't just walk off with it afterwards, then go ahead. I'm not seeing any revenge there. I'm not seeing any malicious compliance either, just someone finding a loophole cause I doubt the post office worker felt embarrassed or thought anything about it after handing over the package.
Maybe I'm missing something...
I was a customer service sales rep for a well known high end women's clothing store/catalog. The call center where I worked was in the same building as the warehouse for the whole company. I get a call from a woman who had already placed an order and received it in 2 days but we sent her the wrong size. We guarantee 7-10 day delivery, this is important. I told her that not only would I send her a return envelope to put the item in and just drop it in the mail to return it, but I'd expedite the correct size to her immediately and how sorry I was for the mistake and would put in that she get 20% off her next order. I'll never forget her next words because it shocked me. "That's not enough, you're a big company and can afford to do more for me over this." I passed her off to a supervisor.
Know who else doesnt feel pain in their neck after an accident? People who take off their C-Collar and end up paralyzing (or worse) themselves due to an unstabilized injury that they couldnt feel in the first place, or thought a collar was "overkill"
When my sister was little she had a situation similar to the toddler in the story where she was having trouble breathing and my dad took her to the hospital where they waited for a long time. After seeing my sister running around the Christmas tree without any sign of distress he decided she was fine and brought her home.
I wouldn't really put that first story into malicious compliance. More like stories from a hospital or something? 😅 "I was mistaken for a dead body at a hospital" Hearing it gave me a good laugh 😂
I remember confusing the EMTs and the Nurses with a neck brace. I have an issue where my body paralyzes itself for 24-28 hours. Still don’t know why. The EMTs were loading me into the ambulance and I requested a neck brace. When asked why, I told them I can’t hold my head still and got whiplash from the last ambulance ride. Got to the hospital and had to explain it again. At least they understood why.
1:40 I was in a couple of car accidents horrible back pain horrible neck pain and was left in hallways and the only people that took any interest in how I was feeling for the goddamn custodians. I was in so much pain at one point that I was just crying I didn't even realize that the tears were just running down my face and nurses walked baby doctors walked by me and the only person that actually took an interest in cut me a tissue and wiped my face for me was one of the housekeeper's
The first thing that came to mind during the neck brace story is a story i heard about a guy who got into a horrific car accident only to escape completely unscathed. He thought he felt fine and then he stood up and turned his head to the left very quickly and broke his neck and killed himself. Turns out he had an issue with his neck but didn't know and wasn't in any pain. This is why you should not take off the neck brace until doctors clear you.
14:25 - Post office employees pretending you're not home. There was a scandal about this a few years back in Britain. A certain lady was working in her front garden, when a post office van pulled up. The driver handed her a card saying "We tried to deliver .. but you were out."
Confused, the lady says she's not out, but is standing right in front of the guy, and could she have her parcel, please? "Oh no, we never put them in the van. You'll have to come and collect it."
The annoyed lady writes to a newspaper. Her letter is published, and within forty-eight hours the paper is deluged with letters saying "That happened to me, too."
This led to pointed questions being asked at government level - and deputy heads had to roll.
Last story: If I got to take part on that situation in a post office I'd be giving off the biggest grinch smile
The postal story reminded me of an incident I experienced years ago.. and I’m pretty sure it was at a US Post office.
Clerk: I can’t take this credit card, it’s not signed.
Me: I have a photo ID to prove it’s my card.
Clerk: rules say I can’t take a card that isn’t signed..
Me: OK, can I borrow a pen to sign it?
Clerk: no, you can’t sign it in front of me..
Me: so.. you would take this card if I signed it outside, without an ID.. but not if I sign it here and provide you with additional evidence that it’s my card??
Clerk: yes.. I have to follow the rules.
I left without my stamps.
The E-mail back firing the employee before christmas.... its so genious, i just can't...
Last story: the beginning explanation of delivery drivers not ringing doorbells and just writing packages off as "no one home" isnt just Germany. Thats like the number one mail delivery meme around the world it feels.
I understand the sentiment of the nurse in the second story. My OLD managers at a grocery store would give into customers after I followed the rules and said no. That pissed me off so much. Like dont they understand that it makes me look incompetent.
That last story is cool and all, but highlights an enormous flaw in the post office’s system. It would be ridiculously easy for someone to steal a parcel card out of your mailbox, write their own name on the alternative pickup line, present ID and card and take your package with you none the wiser until you decided to enquire why it hadn’t arrived.
2nd story, even worse is that the moment they arrive at the er and gets a triage, thats at least 3 bills she will be expecting, Ambulance, Facility and ER Phys fee. and if asthma is the complaint, its likely possible there will also be the radiology bill for the chest X-ray and also quite possibly a seperate phys fee also for the pedia for the kid..... whooops. lets just hope they have a pretty good insurance coverage and lets hope the insurance wont deny the claim as a "not a medical necessity" . lol.
Karen: What's the diagnosis on my daughter, you fake? Are you even a doctor? I want to see a real doctor!
Nurse: Well, I've come to the perfect conclusion. Your daughter is in amazing shape. But there's one condition.
Karen: What's that?!
Nurse: She needs a better mother.
I do not agree with what that 2nd doctor did. Using up emergency resources to teach a karen a lesson puts even more strain on the system. That IS negligence. Another patient could die or have severe health impacts because of an ambulance being made unavailable.
I feel like I'm listening to an unedited script for a bad drama instead of an actual recount of what actually happened in the second story.
I have friends who live backing onto a beach, they got fed up strangers walking right past their kitchen window to cut through to the beach and back . They put a lock on their gate, they actually had the strangers complain and demand they unlock it so they could trespass with impunity! The kicker is the official pathway is only a few minutes walk away. LOL
I've heard the Steve story before; the previous stores of heard long long ago, but they're still funny.
Similar to the Steve's Fired email, I got to write an interesting email as petty revenge.
I'd find a roommate that turned out less than for which I'd hoped. Turned out he was a gay Christian skinhead white supremacist. This oddness was but one of his contradictory aspects. I didn't notice right off as I tend to keep to myself.
He didn't have an issue with my having a cat, but eventually he realized not only was I was straight, but I happened not to be His Version of "christian." He was always eerily calm when speaking. At one point he and I had a "serious" discussion when it became clear the roommate he wanted at _least_ should be gay (he denied, rather lamely, that he was hoping for someone with whom to get into a Significant Other type relationship). I grew up in theater, so I had no issue with his orientation, but it was during this talk I realized he was a white supremacist. I literally asked if he felt 1940s You Know Who was right in exterminating Jews. He deflected and wouldn't answer that one.
Okay, I thought. Time to find a new place to live.
At that time I had a graveyard shift at a call center, 10pm to 6am. It wasn't going to gig, I was lucky to only have to take maybe two calls per shift, during which I was able to do anything online with a high-speed connection, except obviously Adult Stuff.
I have managed to find a new roommate, at a better location, for about the same amount of money.
Steelhead guy had had a tendency of going into my room when I wasn't home. One time I literally walked in on him going through the boxes I had in my room, to which he current time and he was considering having my room painted, as though he had ever discussed that with me.
No escape plan was simple. I'd put aside money to pay for the August rent.
When he was out, I moved out my stuff to the new place. On the late day of July I would give him the August rent, and tell him it was my 30-day notice, and head out. The guy would still be up 1 month's rent, and we have that amount of time to find a new roommate.
I thought it would work out perfectly well.
This was long enough so smartphones weren't yet a thing; I had a pager, which is set to be Off from 10pm to 7am. Someone calling me would get voicemail, and I'd get paged, and call my voice mail.
At one point checking my email there was one from him, furious. Puzzled, I checked my voice mail, and there he was, calmly expressing his fury that on entering my closed room (ignoring the fact he'd _again_ entered my closed room), he'd seen All my stuff gone. This was still July. Sure is not yet told him of my leaving, but I had no obligation to do so until August first.
His voice mail conveyed my no longer being welcome, falsely claiming neighbours were instructed to call the police if I returned.
Technically I had about ten days left for which I'd paid, but all my stuff and cat were already out of there. So I replied to his email; along these lines:
"Dear [roommate],
"I was surprised at your voice mail and email. I'm paid though July, and had set aside rent for August, when I would _then_ give you my 30-day notice, and you'd have payment for August, myself gone, and your having a month to find a new roommate who'll appreciate your insinuating yourself into their life and privacy.
"Thankfully your Christian generosity is appreciated: by unlawfully kicking me out without notice, and prior to my current month's payment ending, you lawfully negate any and all obligations between us, such as my giving you August rent as I'd planned.
"I'll return the key to the apartment manager, so avoid any confrontation.
"Thanks again for your generously saving me paying you for August; clearly you have enough money on your own to handle your two-bedroom apartment rent for August yourself.
"Any further voicemail will be deleted; I'll save as evidence Just In Case your current one, with your unlawfully kicking me out without notice despite my having paid for July."
Yes I was repetitive, but I wanted to make sure he understood that he had no leg on which to stand, legally.
I was aware apartment manager was a Russian Jew, so I mailed to him the key, indicating in my cover letter how I'd been kicked out without notice, and that it was more uncomfortable for me as it was to live with somebody who was as anti-semitic as was my skinhead roommate.
A few days later I got a page. I checked my voice mail and there was my former roommate. To my regret, I hit Delete. To this day I wish I'd listened to hear what sort of inanity he had said...
love the r/idontworkherelady cameo in the 2nd to last story lol
Last story: The CSR was only doing their job. Management probably made it super clear that this rule needs to be followed in order to avoid package theft. OP would have been even more mad if someone had just claimed to be them to get the package and walked off with it on their word that they were the rightful recipient. People steal door tags from porches too, not just packages. OP knows it is their package, the CSR does not. Had that story been told from the perspective of the CSR, I'm sure this would be considered an entitled customer story. Let's please stop crapping on CSRs for simply doing their jobs; we put up with enough abuse.
An ambulance cost about $500 where I live, so the mother is going to regret her behavior.
I cracked up laughing at the first story in which the person with the neckbrace gets mistaken for a dead body. LOL. That nurse seemed very annoyed/ing as well lol.
It's because the blanket over the head is done for dead bodies
Was in a clinic.
It was ❄️🥶❄️
I did the same as OP.
About half a minute later, a recitation crew appeared -a doctor, 3 nurses, and two auxiliary persons... 😅
Rule #1 in any hospital. Never piss off the nurses.
It’s all fun and games until you think you know better than healthcare providers, take off your neck brace, and end up paralyzed or in chronic pain for the rest of your life. There is a REASON for the protocols!!
Yeah, that doesn’t happen.
Tbh when I went to the hospital last, there was a trauma 1 car wreck patient with two black eyes, a broken neck, and several other issues crying to God just laying in the hallway and nurses and doctors not caring. My nurse was bitching about how she had to be there at work. I finally was like: yeah me and that guy don’t wanna be here I’m sure!
Nurses are vital and skilled and most of them deserve more credit than they get! They really are the heroes most of the time. But when you get the ones that puts their own inconvience over the panic of any patient (or parent of patient) then they need to step the fuck down and remember their training. The way that story started sounded like it belongs in r/AITA, and yes that nurse was the asshole. That they got offended because the doctors would "give in" and do their jobs and got annoyed because it undermined them is disgusting. Any story that followed is became irrelevant because of that opening, there is no redeeming that. It is arrogance that could possibly cost someone their life and they should be ashamed.
There is no way they wasted emergency service's time like that.
Nurse should've explained it to him and not been an ass, some nurses need fo realize not everyone has medical knowledge. My bestfriend is 10yrs older than me and he comes to me for advice sue to being a daughter of someone in medicine and taking a couple college courses myself. You can not feel anything is wrong but if you take it off, youre fucked.
I had a trampoline accident where my niece came down feet first on my neck and while i was hurting, nothing like i couldve ir should've been and the ER doctor told my parents i had a hairline fracture and that if it wasn't for my niece being maybe 50-60 pounds and me still being young snd having rubbery bones, i would've had a break or internal decapitation. Just listen to the EMTS and nurses. Theyll take it off if they don't feel its necessary, well they wont put it on unless they feel its necessary.
0:12 paying attention to the age of the OP.
Because it seems that young people get into more accidents than older people because older people dont know how to drive responsibly around younger people and the blame is that they are dumber or more immature. So gotta see if this is another to add into the collection of situations or not
It's amazing how patients will pretend they have superior medical knowledge than nurses.
last story: Sadly in the states with my local ups drivers they don't knock or ring bell they just walk to door leave a note, saying no one was home and to pick up the package from their warehouse, these assholes tend to be paid $48 an hour to be a delivery driver but I still have to pickup my packages from the warehouse. yeah that hasn't been happening lately since they got caught doing it on a 4k door bell camera.
Story 4: Gotta say, im a bit baffled that actually worked
...what would OP have done if the angry customer had ended up happy this way?
Last Story: the person behind, who showed their ID is lucky there was nothing illegal in the package.
Isn't the major difference between nurse and doctor, is that the doctor is fully educated and certified to understand and prescribe treatments and medications (doses)?
Never take off a neck brace!
That nurse was a piece of work though. The least she could have done was try to make OP comfortable in the first place, not yell at them after, for all she knew, a traumatic physical event for trying to make themselves comfortable.
Sometimes people feel nothing wrong w their necks then turn slightly and it kills them.
People when we doctors pour our hearts and souls for 6+ years into rigorously studying medicine are actually right about their illness: 🤯