Friday - December 12, 2008

SOMEONE IS TO BLAME AND IT’S EVERYONE’S FAULT BUT THE PERSON WHO MADE THE ERROR!

THE BLAME GAME

This is personal and as stated once before, what else is a blog site for? 
I’m not upset, really I’m not.  In fact, this would be quite funny in a Loral and Hardy film. 
In fact, it’s somewhat funny anyway. 

Lets see if I can explain this coherently.  It is not a big deal and it isn’t even bothersome.
But it’s an indication of a particular mind set and incompetence.  A way of thinking and doing one’s job, making a mistake and saying, “BUT IT’S NOT MY FAULT.” And pointing the fickle finger at someone else.

As in the past, those who read BMEWS will know I have posted before on the nuttiness of some things medical here.  From the lunacy of how to get a prescription filled, trouble with the agency that provides in home care for the wife’s mother, and of course my own adventures recently with making an appointment to see a doctor (needed a password ), and more recently my Colonoscopy adventure.

Well, here’s more and it isn’t just the idea that it involves the same agency mentioned. And it does.  It’s the idea that has taken root globally that mistakes and boners are NEVER the fault of the person who originates the error.  Oh no.  It’s always somebody else’s fault.

So here at last is the latest installment of pass the buck. 

Every week we get something called a client rota.  In our language (USA) a schedule.  It is a weekly schedule that tells us what time the care givers come to change the diaper and clean the old lady in the next room. It gives the times both morning and afternoon and who will be coming at those times.

Schedules we’ve been told, are made up two weeks in advance. And so every week we receive a schedule in the mail for the coming week.  This would be snail mail btw.  That’s important to note because 200 schedules went out this week at a cost to the agency of approx. $160.00 in postage.
With the wrong date and times. They thought they were mailing out a schedule for the Christmas week.  But no, what arrived in the post were four sheets of paper.  Two of those sheets are for next week, Monday through Sunday, 21 December. .  The other two sheets are for …… the very same thing.  In other words, duplicates.

When the care givers, as they are called, arrived to make the afternoon diaper change, one of the team was someone who normally works in their office and fills in on house calls when they are short handed.  Since she was office personnel my wife pointed out that we had a duplicate schedule and asked if it shouldn’t have been the Christmas one instead.

She immediately said yes and went on to defend herself saying, “It wasn’t my fault.  I made the copies and handed them to someone else to put in the envelopes for mailing.  IF I HAD DONE THE STUFFING AND MAILING, I WOULD HAVE CHECKED THEM FIRST.”

She actually said that. 

Now why on earth would the person being handed stuff to mail, think to check her co-workers work?  So if it isn’t her fault, whose?

More likely I suppose it was my fault for opening this morning’s mail and even the postman who delivered it. 

Hey that’s right.  The postman.  Like I said. “IT WASN’T MY FAULT.”

Oh boy.
Stay Tuned. 

Posted by peiper     on 12/12/2008 at 10:27 AM   
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