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Posted by: pebbles
Date: 8/18/2008 1:22:21 AM

I work at a county health department.

Our administrator NEVER leaves her office. Once she comes in, she's in her chair until she leaves. To quote her, "I work from the minute I get in the door, I don't take time to eat or go to the bathroom, I work work work". She has NEVER used the bathroom at work, EVER. (Depends?)

We never know when she's coming in. She'll send an email out on Friday saying she'll be in Monday, then Monday morning you get an email saying she'll be in Tuesday, or she'll be in, in the afternoon. No idea from one day to the next when/if she is coming in. This coming week,she MAY be in, it all depends on the price of tomatoes, if she can get a good price, she's making salsa. Some of her excuses for not coming to work are outrageous. "I cleaned the snow off my car and my hair go wet so I'm waiting for it to dry"; "I was picking what I thought was skin off my toe and it turned out to be more than just skin"!!????

Our client load has dropped drastically over the years, because she is the most antisocial person ever and she MUST be in control. We don't work with other organizations, because if we work WITH someone, that means she's not in control. Everything we suggest as a service we could provide, she nixes or as we say "throws monkey wrenches" into the works, making it too complicated to even think about. And we then get a lecture about the fact that we apparently do not understand public health.

Rules change every day. One staff's father was ill and in the hospital, she was allowed to take sick leave, another staffs mother was ill and in the hospital and she had to take annual leave. Both same situation, parents living down south, both with a spouse,both parents having similar surgery, both took a week off. One staff had to have surgery and would be off 6 weeks, she had to write a letter to our board and request this. Another staff had to have surgery and would be off 3 months, she didn't have to write a letter. One day your told ok, the next she's grilling you asking WHY you are doing that.

She hasn't participated in ANY activity or service we provide for over 10 years yet dictates how all activities and services are done. She keeps saying she KNOWS how things go, she USE to do them. Things change, people change, the clients today arent the clients of the 80's. She likes to change the entire routine of everything, confusing staff and clients. She then doesnt understand WHY it didnt work, she had it all planned out, so it MUST work. She forgets that people are involved.

We have a FOUR hour long staff meeting every month, where she discusses the movies she's watched. These use to be catered but we chose to end that when every month she complained and argued with what we ordered and ended up every month we ate what she wanted. We have learned to just sit there and say nothing. If you ask a question or remotely suggest you disagree with her, she yells at you and then the lecture about not understanding public health comes again.

She purchases our supplies according to the free gift offered. These free gifts are passed out as Christmas gifts to staff.

We have filed a grievance. The board has talked with her and she was given things to do. One was show up to work, which she has been coming every day, but we never know what time. She was suppose to talk to us, which she did, kind of. She apologized, she said because the board told her to. She asked us to talk to her, as in "you HAVE to talk to me because I don't think I'm doing anything wrong". When one brave soul did speak, she was ignored and the administrator simply hollered "NEXT". We then got a 3 hour lecture on public health and our lack of understanding of it.

We're on our final step of the grievance because their solutions were useless and she's started retaliations. After the grievance was originally filed she made us all do "time studies". We have time sheets we fill out every month, with our hours broken down into categories. Her time study was where we had to break everything down into 5 minute increments. Needless to say this was just a tad bit annoying. Then she called a nurse into her office and said she had glanced at her study and felt she needed more to do, so .. she gets to organize the boss's files.

We hope the end result of all this is her leaving.

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