Furloughs?

[anonymous]

Yes. Where have you been living? Under a rock? Under new management, preferably replaced with a man or at least a mature mind, the place could be an ideal workplace. But We don’t hold out any hope for that.

Hope left years ago with Dr. P. He was not only a great pathologist, he was a good person. He was a real human with compassion and ethics. But he was born here and of this culture. I have noted that some people, who are from cultures that are permitted to abuse employees, have a real authoritarian management style. An extremely controlling person in an environment with professionals who need very little supervision is ridiculous. . That energy would be moist effective managing supervisors and allowing the supervisors to supervise their own departments. Instead it’s arrested development time on a middle school campus.
Now it’s her Vs Dr. Y. , the lab director. It would be nice if Dr Y was really in charge while she handled purchasing supplies and maintenance agreements and did some primary screening of Paps to help out with the rapidly growing backlog.
But instead there is always some drama. Some kind of low frequency bull crap.

 

[anonymous]

Where in the hell did that "27 percent of reactive cases have high grade lesions" statistic come from? That sure isn't the case in any lab I have ever worked at.

Cytotechs better be prepared for big time layoffs. The volumes are going to be down indefinitely. Just what the field needed, another death knell. If you aren't retraining, you better be doing so.

That shows how much you know. On the west coast, specifically, So. Cali, the workload is back to normal and the backlog is on the rise. What do you have to say yo that?

 

[anonymous]

27 percent of reactive cases have high grade? Where did that stat come from? Not at any lab I have worked at.

The volume of pap tests is going to plummet indefinitely so cytotechs better be retraining immediately. Many of you wont be coming back from furlough. This is another death knell for the field, as if it needed anymore. Dead field for sure.

The volume is back to normal and the backlog is quickly rising here is S. California. What do you have to say now?

 

[anonymous]

They are telling us to prepare for a future of less volume (about 20 percent less), after the surge. Our cytotechs that have been furloughed won't all be back they said. Our market is already saturated with out of work techs so I guess they will be heading back to school.

 

[anonymous]

The only reason for seeing reactive changes with a high grade lesion would be a coexisting trich, BV or other STI infection. It has nothing to do with the dysplasia.

 

[anonymous]

The only reason for seeing reactive changes with a high grade lesion would be a coexisting trich, BV or other STI infection. It has nothing to do with the dysplasia.[/QUOTE

That’s a ridiculous statement. You are an idiot, doing your magic trick again. Trying to distract from subject at hand: Incompetent management, from a closet racist who has a habit of lying on and slandering employees who have the goods on her and know where the bodies are buried. Soon all will be revealed and karma is the real bitch.

 

[anonymous]

The only reason for seeing reactive changes with a high grade lesion would be a coexisting trich, BV or other STI infection. It has nothing to do with the dysplasia.

That’s a ridiculous statement. You are an idiot, doing your magic trick again. Trying to distract from subject at hand: Incompetent management, from a closet racist who has a habit of lying on and slandering employees who have the goods on her and know where the bodies are buried. Soon all will be revealed and karma is the real bitch.

 

[anonymous]

The only reason for seeing reactive changes with a high grade lesion would be a coexisting trich, BV or other STI infection. It has nothing to do with the dysplasia.

You are a cytotech and don’t know that reactive changes can mimic dysplasia as in chronic cervicitis? Do you ever see parakeratosis? What about a severe atrophic vaginitis? In some women, reactive changes is their normal state. There are nonspecific reactive changes. There are reactive changes due to IUD reaction. In all of these cases, the patient might have a dysplasia , or an early stage of HPV, but diagnostic cells are not present on the slide. For whatever reason, when these cases were followed, 27% were later diagnosed as high grade. The study has become obsolete since we now have DNA co-testing.

I am sure each of us have known techs who would send the pathologist half their daily workload out of fear of missing a dysplasia that’s may be hiding beneath a severe inflammatory reaction , etc.. The point is that cytology is an art and screening tool ....not a perfect science.

 

[anonymous]

They are telling us to prepare for a future of less volume (about 20 percent less), after the surge. Our cytotechs that have been furloughed won't all be back they said. Our market is already saturated with out of work techs so I guess they will be heading back to school.

Where is your lab located? What part of the country?

 

[anonymous]

That’s a ridiculous statement. You are an idiot, doing your magic trick again. Trying to distract from subject at hand: Incompetent management, from a closet racist who has a habit of lying on and slandering employees who have the goods on her and know where the bodies are buried. Soon all will be revealed and karma is the real bitch.

The idea that this person would slander an employee about work attitude is rich, indeed. What kind of real work does she do? Nothing client services could not do.Ask her why she was fired and told that she would not be welcome back to any job she previously held. Why? By doing the same thing she does at LC. Disrobing relationships, creating a hostile environment and division. Fortunately those organizations were intelligent enough to recognize it.

Please pay close attention: if you are really interested in an employee, check the performance reviews and talk to immediate supervisors. B/c the only thing you probably know is what she told you. She will consider the person a threat if she perceives that the person is competition for her, is not a boot licker, or is a truth teller and not afraid to speak up or confront her on her lies. There is always unnecessary drama surrounding her.

 

[anonymous]

The’ll give them a raise or a bonus and the band plays on.

 

[anonymous]

My question is, what does LCA plan to do if these supervisors threaten to resign? Looks like they have LC over a barrel.

Do you mean that they may be unhappy because they are being required to clock in and out now? I thought that was a simple solution. Appropriate. After all they did not object when the rest of the “salaried” cytotechs were required to use the time clock. Most excellent!

 

[anonymous]

Another little tidbit: LCH, be careful with this person. When she lost her last job, her bad reputation kept her from being hired anywhere else. And she had the audacity to disparage an employee’s work attitude? Why? Because she caused so much dessention in the workplace. Anyway, she made a deal with her new job, HL. In exchange for hiring her, she gave them the clients from her former employers. How on earth would you protect yourself from that?

You are probably asking why are we doing this? Because she needs to be checked. Her behavior needs to be exposed and stopped. She isn’t even a good cytotech. Bet she has you fooled about that too. Why do you think she is afraid to do any primary screening of Paps? The strange thing about it is that she got promoted right after she failed an annual Proficiency Test. That year, we knew of 2 techs who were supervisors that failed the PT also. Both lost their jobs. She gets promoted. Go figure.

 

[anonymous]

Another little tidbit: LCH, be careful with this person. When she lost her last job, her bad reputation kept her from being hired anywhere else. And she had the audacity to disparage an employee’s work attitude? Why? Because she caused so much dessention in the workplace. Anyway, she made a deal with her new job, HL. In exchange for hiring her, she gave them the clients from her former employers. How on earth would you protect yourself from that?

You are probably asking why are we doing this? Because she needs to be checked. Her behavior needs to be exposed and stopped. She isn’t even a good cytotech. Bet she has you fooled about that too. Why do you think she is afraid to do any primary screening of Paps? The strange thing about it is that she got promoted right after she failed an annual Proficiency Test. That year, we knew of 2 techs who were supervisors that failed the PT also. Both lost their jobs. She gets promoted. Go figure.

Witchcraft. Can’t say you weren’t told.

 

[anonymous]

We have another incident of immature behavior.it gapped a while back. As mentioned earlier, she has this strange obsession with the African American lady cytotech. She told us that the black woman liked white guys, and she knew this because the black lady and she had worked at another lab. At the time, the black lady was in an interracial marriage, and talked about things like that. So she got a blond haired white male LabCorp employee to stand at the large copier in client services and just gawk at the black lady. He stood there staring at her until she noticed him. The black lady got up to pick up her work from the shelf and returned to her cubicle. She asked us what the black lady did. We told her that she didn’t do anything but turn around and take quick look at him staring at her and then she went back to work.The more we thought about it, the more we realized that she was trying to get us to hate the black lady along with her.
The person that you made the lab manager did this. And that was one incident of many.

 

[anonymous]

We have another incident of immature behavior.it gapped a while back. As mentioned earlier, she has this strange obsession with the African American lady cytotech. She told us that the black woman liked white guys, and she knew this because the black lady and she had worked at another lab. At the time, the black lady was in an interracial marriage, and talked about things like that. So she got a blond haired white male LabCorp employee to stand at the large copier in client services and just gawk at the black lady. He stood there staring at her until she noticed him. The black lady got up to pick up her work from the shelf and returned to her cubicle. She asked us what the black lady did. We told her that she didn’t do anything but turn around and take quick look at him staring at her and then she went back to work.The more we thought about it, the more we realized that she was trying to get us to hate the black lady along with her.
The person that you made the lab manager did this. And that was one incident of many.

Oh, I remember that. I know the ones who were involved. She should have known that the black woman, who is happily married, would ignore dude. That black woman is a very spiritual person and her husband is a well known Lutheran Pastor and Chaplain. She is very intelligent, very kind, and no fool with a mindset that is so different from theirs. That should be obvious. The white guy looked young and probably not much older than her son. He stood there glaring at her with this silly grin, looking stupid. I don’t know if the black woman realized what was going on.

 

[anonymous]

Me too. We heard her phone someone who was presumed to be in LCA administration, and complained about her sitting idly at her desk or texting. Cytotechs are not bots. It might takes 20 minutes to screen a difficult case and it may take less than two minutes to screen a clean hysterectomy slide. It’s the luck of the draw in terms of what your workload is like. But that’s not the main point. It happened soon after Covid19 regulations. The workload had declined severely for everyone. Everyone was doing the same thing by finding something to occupy their spare time l. However, she does not care what anyone else does. Her focus is the on what the African American woman is doing. How sick is that? That’s just a sample. What a petty bitch.

Lately, she has been acting super coo-coo. She actually thinks she has a supernatural app on her phone that allows her to intercept text messages. Serious business. How scary is that?

Want the back story on this? When she saw the stats showing the lab was loosing money, she needed a scapegoat. “The black woman is siting at her desk texting”(and doing what everyone else was doing). Why the black woman? Again, this is how she tries to veil her racism. After all, they believed all of her lies heretofore.
Like pretending she was getting threatening phone calls, but when it was suggested that law enforcement get involved, she responded that the calls stopped. Please. If she legitimately had calls that she had are still accessible. And she should be more than willing to accept the help of professional. Why? How else could she get attention and and sooth her filthy conscience. Oops, did she get caught lying AGAIN?

 

[anonymous]

Another little tidbit: LCH, be careful with this person. When she lost her last job, her bad reputation kept her from being hired anywhere else. And she had the audacity to disparage an employee’s work attitude? Why? Because she caused so much dessention in the workplace. Anyway, she made a deal with her new job, HL. In exchange for hiring her, she gave them the clients from her former employers. How on earth would you protect yourself from that?

You are probably asking why are we doing this? Because she needs to be checked. Her behavior needs to be exposed and stopped. She isn’t even a good cytotech. Bet she has you fooled about that too. Why do you think she is afraid to do any primary screening of Paps? The strange thing about it is that she got promoted right after she failed an annual Proficiency Test. That year, we knew of 2 techs who were supervisors that failed the PT also. Both lost their jobs. She gets promoted. Go figure.

To clarify, it was not the employee that she complained about who has a reputation of causing dissension in the workplace. It is she. We do not know how she could keep a straight face, while complaining about work attitude, when for years, she only came in early for corporate conference calls and 4 hour days. Oh, that’s right. She was working from home.You could always call her at home or transfer calls to her. That is, unless it was in the middle of the night. You didn’t dare call her then, unless you wanted to be cursed out.

 

[anonymous]

Another little tidbit: LCH, be careful with this person. When she lost her last job, her bad reputation kept her from being hired anywhere else. And she had the audacity to disparage an employee’s work attitude? Why? Because she caused so much dessention in the workplace. Anyway, she made a deal with her new job, HL. In exchange for hiring her, she gave them the clients from her former employers. How on earth would you protect yourself from that?

You are probably asking why are we doing this? Because she needs to be checked. Her behavior needs to be exposed and stopped. She isn’t even a good cytotech. Bet she has you fooled about that too. Why do you think she is afraid to do any primary screening of Paps? The strange thing about it is that she got promoted right after she failed an annual Proficiency Test. That year, we knew of 2 techs who were supervisors that failed the PT also. Both lost their jobs. She gets promoted. Go figure.

Check this out. She had the nerve to lie to the pathologists about the black cytotech abilities. The black tech can screen circles around her. Here is where the magic comes into play again. She tells the pathologist that the black woman had problems with ascus r/o had ever since working at HL when the black tech was in charge of reading QC. That was a dirty lie. The fact is, the black tech was and is far superior to her and that it was she who failed the annual CAP Proficiency Test b/c she missed a Small Cell Carcinoma InSitu. She called the case negative, thinking the cells were lower uterine segment. Ask her about that.

 

[anonymous]

Check this out. She had the nerve to lie to the pathologists about the black cytotech abilities. The black tech can screen circles around her. Here is where the magic comes into play again. She tells the pathologist that the black woman had problems with ascus r/o had ever since working at HL when the black tech was in charge of reading QC. That was a dirty lie. The fact is, the black tech was and is far superior to her and that it was she who failed the annual CAP Proficiency Test b/c she missed a Small Cell Carcinoma InSitu. She called the case negative, thinking the cells were lower uterine segment. Ask her about that.

You meant ascus r/o high grade, didn’t you? But we get the picture.