Had to get a CT yesterday. Went to a radiology building affiliated with a university hospital. It was in a quiet, well landscaped industrial park. Went inside, there were several desks. One desk had three or four people sitting behind it, each sitting at a computer. No one greeted me or acknowledged I was there. I went and stood in front of the desk where the first person sat at a computer, noticed a “Stand behind blue tape” sign, so I stood behind the blue tape. She did not acknowledge me. Waited another few minutes before a guy in the middle of the desk said “I’ll be with you in a minute!” as if he was bein* harassed. You could hear a pin drop in this place. I noticed 2 waiting areas. The largest waiting are a was empty. The smaller waiting area had about 4 people quietly sitting there.

I walk over to the blue line in front of the guy, pull out my insurance cards & driver’s license. He says to a woman sitting at the end of the desk, “You were smart! You didn’t come in yesterday!”

“Was it bad?” she asked.

“Horrible! Horrible! You were lucky you didn’t come in. Well, every day here is a good day to stay home from *this* place! Humph!”

There was literally nothing happening in this place. They didn’t even have an annoying tv like some waiting areas have. He snatches my cards and loudly says “Go sit in *that* waiting area. That’s where they’ll come and get you!” And tosses his head toward the large waiting area.

He continues bitching about his job and how crazy it is, rolling his eyes.

A guy came and got me, I changed, had the scan, changed again and left. Place was as aquiet as a grave.

WTF do these assholes expect from work? I worked so hard at my hospital job I never peed in the building. Never had a cup of coffee. Never got a cent for all the overtime I worked. We were barraged with admitting, discharging and caring for patients for 12 hours straight. People vomited, screamed in pain, people yelled obscenities (ok, those were the doctors). We were sexually harassed all the time, We were commanded to “smile” and “relax.”

My husband had come with me and when we walked out he said, “I felt like punching that guy in the face. Give him something to complain about. People are sitting there with cancer, heart disease, lung disease and he’s yapping about how hard he has it.”

What are they expecting work to be like? Free porn and gaming all day?