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This is is crazy. Does LCA really base cytotech's salary increases only on their semi-annual stats of how often the pathologist or QC review disagrees with the tech's findings? Those old stats are bull crap anyway, because were edited. Sk has deleted all of the discrepant cases that SHE did not agree with the pathologist on.No tissue correlation, or anything to back her up. She just overruled the pathologists. Now if you happen to belong to her crew, a missed low grade on QC, a major upgrade or downgrade would conveniently disappear from your stats.

It is so obvious that any fool can see that she had an agenda. You can make someone believe anything you want using statistics simply by including some and excluding others.
Why? You are probably asking yourself. Because she is crazy. Because she wants to put you in your place and keep you there.

Now to reasonably intelligent persons, isn't it obvious that you show stats to support the technical supervisor's daily workload limit for that tech. Why would you undermine it with negative, unnecessary, unrelated information. After all, this is a legal document. A document that can be used in a court of law. A document that was never intended for used as an annual employee evaluation by HR to determine raises. WTF is going on here?

Is this the way LCA does things? Or is ineptitude rearing its ugly head again?
 
























Anonymous said:
Who cares about SK or SC or BC or whatever at Monrovia. Your lab will be a ghost town by the end of the year when LabCorp does not renew the lease, everyone is laid off, and the work goes to Van Nuys and San Diego. It will all become a mute point.
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Screw this angry, bloated sales rep as far as his attitude goes - but it may be sad to say that most likely is the plan.
If SK is exposed for the fraud she is, and there is evidence that she is compromising the quality of the lab by making her own rules, then it is beneficial to every Cytot to NOT keep her around. Good people are still needed even if the MOnrovia lab closes, but a manager that has everyone conned will be put in a spot of higher authority than a hard-working cytot that actually does work.

If labcrap gets a hint that SK will give them a/another black eye, they will get rid of her pronto and not wait until there is someone around to replace her. REally how hard is it to bring someone in to handle a cyto managers position? Its not like they do any real work, most cytot are professionals and function unsupervised anyway.
 












Anonymous said:
I heard about a cytology manager in San Diego that got canned a while back. I cannot remember her name though. Is this the M.........a you are talking about?
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Yes, big time. She treated her employees like sweat shop workers too. Thought everyone was trying to get away with something and it was her job to be the ruler. Also talked on the phone a lot while threatening others who tried to take calls from family members. Sound vaguely familiar???

People finally got sick of it and complained about her. Upper management saw the problem and got rid of the problem because there were so many complaints about her. They know that TAT and quality does suffer if techs are constantly harassed and miserable. as money-hungry as they are they dont want problems with either one, it hurts them in the long-run.
 






Anonymous said:
U have 2 be able to c past the charade. Keeping drama going is just a tactic 2 mask incompetency. Can u say distraction? The more I read about this situation the tireder I get.
Scroll up and re-read the posts. The solution is there. I heard from a reliable source that there is a gag order on the cytots.Whats up with that?
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What IS up with the gag order? We need more details.
From labcorp, or the Imager manufacturer, or are they coming up with this together?
Fascinating! This is the stuff we need to talk about. Way better than listening to salesman spew their vile opinions about something they know nothing about.
 






Anonymous said:
Yes, big time. She treated her employees like sweat shop workers too. Thought everyone was trying to get away with something and it was her job to be the ruler. Also talked on the phone a lot while threatening others who tried to take calls from family members. Sound vaguely familiar???

People finally got sick of it and complained about her. Upper management saw the problem and got rid of the problem because there were so many complaints about her. They know that TAT and quality does suffer if techs are constantly harassed and miserable. as money-hungry as they are they dont want problems with either one, it hurts them in the long-run.
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Familiar? Sounds just like, I mean it is identical to the Monrovia situation. Most people know that cytots are pros and need little or no supervision. They know what to do and work best in a stress free zone. The work is tedious and requires a lot of concentration. We are having to put up with baseless accusations, overt and veiled threats and a hostile attitude for something as simple as getting a call from a family member while her cell phone rings so loud, you can hear it throughout the lab.
 






Anonymous said:
What IS up with the gag order? We need more details.
From labcorp, or the Imager manufacturer, or are they coming up with this together?
Fascinating! This is the stuff we need to talk about. Way better than listening to salesman spew their vile opinions about something they know nothing about.
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There are a lot of changes going on in Santa Ana but there is no formal communication about it. The only information available to the Monrovia lab is via the lab grapevine. Likewise, there is a lot of unfairness going on. sk is a petty little opportunist on a serious power trip. She is downright wicked.

They want to project this image of having it all together. So they do not want the techs to compare notes. Who knows what the impact might be...someone with the power to make changes might actually make changes.

No one is to discuss anything that took place during their employee evaluations. Techs are not allowed to visit with each other, especially at each others cubical because this leads to gossip, and there is to be no gossiping or discussions of what is going on. Cytots are only to come into the lab, work and go home. No interpersonal contact.

Oh yes, cytots may now show each other their slides in order to get a second opinion. That is the the only communication allowed.

Break any of these rules and you can be replaced , no matter how excellent an employee you are. That was the warning. In other words, you will be labeled a trouble maker and you will be history. They are malicious and completely without ethics. Those are the only words from them that I would take seriously.
 






Anonymous said:
There are a lot of changes going on in Santa Ana but there is no formal communication about it. The only information available to the Monrovia lab is via the lab grapevine. Likewise, there is a lot of unfairness going on. sk is a petty little opportunist on a serious power trip. She is downright wicked.

They want to project this image of having it all together. So they do not want the techs to compare notes. Who knows what the impact might be...someone with the power to make changes might actually make changes.

No one is to discuss anything that took place during their employee evaluations. Techs are not allowed to visit with each other, especially at each others cubical because this leads to gossip, and there is to be no gossiping or discussions of what is going on. Cytots are only to come into the lab, work and go home. No interpersonal contact.

Oh yes, cytots may now show each other their slides in order to get a second opinion. That is the the only communication allowed.

Break any of these rules and you can be replaced , no matter how excellent an employee you are. That was the warning. In other words, you will be labeled a trouble maker and you will be history. They are malicious and completely without ethics. Those are the only words from them that I would take seriously.
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What a bunch of crap! TYpical power-hungry little cyto manager - but cower to her and she wins. There is safety in numbers if you can get your fellow cytos to band together (and you and I know that is rare), but they won't fire the whole dept. if you stick together. Are these threats coming from sk directly, or from old Westcliff management, or new labcorp people...this is the "gag order" you speak of? Would be interesting to figure out where it originated.

What ever happened to peer/colleague review and discussion? What the hell are they so afraid of, you talking about the lame review review that everybody gets because everyone other than cytos think cytos get paid too much for doing too little? I'd like to see them do it, stare through two little holes in a machine all day long as you while you are constantly watched and made to calculate how much time you spent in the crapper that day? Lets see.... .05 minutes for #1, .1 for #2... Is your DCF correct to the second everyday?

Evaluations are a joke, and I think intended to make you feel like your job is in peril so you don't want to say anything (and get a raise), but they still need cytos to crank out the Paps so corporate can keep buying other little labs and run them into the ground.

So we all talk here...everything is anonymous so F- them! Venting always helps, and insight will enable you to be prepared for the BS that will still be coming. And keep your nose so clean that they don't have anything on you and you will be ok. Dont give sk any reason to find out you are doing anything wrong - her pathetic uselessness will come to a head as all zits do.
 












Yes, all of the above. All are involved. This is trash that we are dealing with. Power hungry trash.They have no honor, no compassion, and the only pleasure they feel is sadistic. They save their praises and flattery their bosses, district managers and corporate. They want to see you cower before them like they do before authority. Full of flattery, bowing and scraping every time anyone from corporate arrives. Brown nosing = Respect for them. Apparently that is the only respect that they understand. And it must must work because they are still there, and things are getting worse not better.

Cytots don't be afraid.They sense your fear like radar and that is how they control you because that is how they themselves are controlled.

SK is so malicious that she does not need a reason to single you out. She will just make one up. Then it is your word against hers. She is trash.
 






Anonymous said:
Cytots don't be afraid.They sense your fear like radar and that is how they control you because that is how they themselves are controlled.

SK is so malicious that she does not need a reason to single you out. She will just make one up. Then it is your word against hers. She is trash.
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dont be afraid, take control of your destiny. what do you fear if your job is uncertain anyway?

watch sk with eagle eyes, document with dates and times, photocopy. keep anything that will show what she is doing wrong, especially if she is manipulating test results, stats, evals, data to her liking. paps are still a medical test that you cant F- with. labcrap will not stand for someone that is a liability and could make them look bad. and if more than one person reports it even better. expose her for what she is and take the trash out, its starting to stink!
 






Anonymous said:
SK does much more than just threaten her employees
i hope she gets caught before the rest of us take the fall for her unethical, illegal behavior
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Can you give us some details or examples of what she does. Sunlight is the best sanitizer. I can tell you some stuff that is so low life that I would not blame anybody from having doubts But if I did, I would blow my anonymity. If you know sk, you know there are no depths to which she will not sink. Sleazy. She hunts for dirt on techs so that she can use it as leverage against them. It doesn't matter if it is a rumor, lie, or not if she can get some mileage out of it. It will be passed on to management as if it is the gospel. Sleazy trash.
 






Can you give us some details or examples of what she does. Sunlight is the best sanitizer. I can tell you some stuff that is so low life that I would not blame anybody from having doubts But if I did, I would blow my anonymity. If you know sk, you know there are no depths to which she will not sink. Sleazy. She hunts for dirt on techs so that she can use it as leverage against them. It doesn't matter if it is a rumor, lie, or not if she can get some mileage out of it. It will be passed on to management as if it is the gospel. Sleazy trash.
 






Can you give us some details or examples of what she does. Sunlight is the best sanitizer. I can tell you some stuff that is so low life that I would not blame anybody from having doubts But if I did, I would blow my anonymity. If you know sk, you know there are no depths to which she will not sink. Sleazy. She hunts for dirt on techs so that she can use it as leverage against them. It doesn't matter if it is a rumor, lie, or not if she can get some mileage out of it. It will be passed on to management as if it is the gospel. Trash
 






I agree that we have to document everything. Making her own rules and cutting corners only begins to describe what she does. Come on, others have to speak up here. You are anonymous. If we all stick together, we will win.
 












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