Pucci
June 7th, 2008, 03:12 PM
I work in a hospital clinic doing medical transcription. When I came back from Maternity leave last year, my workload had doubled so that they decided to keep the girl who was covering my Mat leave.
This girl is very sweet and nice. The only thing is that she spends alot of time on the telephone chit chating to her husband and/or friends. This has been going on for months. She will do some work and then get a call(or she calls someone) and then chit chat for 20 , 30 sometimes even 40 minutes.
We used to have our own phones but recently we changed offices and now in our new office there is only one phone that we share between the two of us. Other people in the dept. have noticed her being on the phone alot.
It was making me crazy because she was doing it so blatantly, she didn't even try to hide it. At one point I couldn't take it and I went to tell the girls in the front office. They said they have noticed it too. They said that I should speak to her about it. I told them I am not good at this type of stuff.
They told me "tell her that other people have started noticing and saying that she spends alot of time on the phone and just to be more careful and that you don't want it to get to the manager --that's all.
So on Friday I decided to say something (because she was spending a lot of time on this particular day on the phone). I told her to be careful and that people are starting to say something about her being on the phone. She wanted to know specifically who is saying this. I told her I don't know, I just heard in passing. Then I told her to be careful and just be more descrete about it. I told her I was saying it for her benefit so that she won't hear it from the boss.
Well... after I told her she went to the bathroom and started crying. When she came back she said that people in the office were back stabbers. She said she has been so nice to everyone and why do they have to be like that to her. Then she started getting mad and then back to crying again. It was so uncomfortable. I wished I had kept my mouth shut and let someone else bring it up with her (like the boss). But she sits right next to me and hogs up the phone that is supposed to be shared by the both of us.
Oh yeah and another thing that irks me is that she goes about making everyone believe that she is soooo busy, and that her workload is more than mine.
This girl is very sweet and nice. The only thing is that she spends alot of time on the telephone chit chating to her husband and/or friends. This has been going on for months. She will do some work and then get a call(or she calls someone) and then chit chat for 20 , 30 sometimes even 40 minutes.
We used to have our own phones but recently we changed offices and now in our new office there is only one phone that we share between the two of us. Other people in the dept. have noticed her being on the phone alot.
It was making me crazy because she was doing it so blatantly, she didn't even try to hide it. At one point I couldn't take it and I went to tell the girls in the front office. They said they have noticed it too. They said that I should speak to her about it. I told them I am not good at this type of stuff.
They told me "tell her that other people have started noticing and saying that she spends alot of time on the phone and just to be more careful and that you don't want it to get to the manager --that's all.
So on Friday I decided to say something (because she was spending a lot of time on this particular day on the phone). I told her to be careful and that people are starting to say something about her being on the phone. She wanted to know specifically who is saying this. I told her I don't know, I just heard in passing. Then I told her to be careful and just be more descrete about it. I told her I was saying it for her benefit so that she won't hear it from the boss.
Well... after I told her she went to the bathroom and started crying. When she came back she said that people in the office were back stabbers. She said she has been so nice to everyone and why do they have to be like that to her. Then she started getting mad and then back to crying again. It was so uncomfortable. I wished I had kept my mouth shut and let someone else bring it up with her (like the boss). But she sits right next to me and hogs up the phone that is supposed to be shared by the both of us.
Oh yeah and another thing that irks me is that she goes about making everyone believe that she is soooo busy, and that her workload is more than mine.