Sleeping at Work - Why not just use the sofa...
Here is another experience that I had with someone that may have been sleeping at work...
I was touring the hospital with a Nurse Manager late one afternoon - and what we found was surely someone sleeping at work… The Nurse Manager and I were touring to see what improvements we could make to the various areas. As we entered a patient waiting room and began to look around - the Nurse Manager sort screams - Oh My God - there is someone lying behind the sofa… About that time - up comes one of my employees - slowly lifting his head up from behind the sofa. I almost fell over with surprise - what an embarrassment! The Nurse Manager gave me one of those looks - like - wow you got some good employees.
Sleeping at Work - You wait right here until I return…
I told him to wait right there until I returned. The Nurse Manager and I left the room and I excused myself so that I could go back and speak with him. I returned to the room - to find him there very nervous and worried - as to what my reaction was going to be. I must say that I was upset… Since the employees belonged to a Union - I told him please find a union rep and meet me in my office in one hour.
Sleeping at Work - You just can’t make this stuff up…
Well in an hour he was there with his union rep. I asked him - what was going on - why were you behind the sofa - and he responded - I trying to play a practical joke on my co-worker. What kind of practical joke could you possibly be trying to play on them - I asked - and he responded that he had paged the co-worker that there was a spill in the room - and he was going to jump out and scare him when he came in. I thought to myself - you just can’t make this kind of stuff up - he is the most creative story teller in the world - or he is telling me the truth.
Sleeping at Work - Verifying the story…
While he was sitting there I called the co-worker he was speaking about - and asked them - have you received any pages - and they responded yes. I asked them from who - and he mentioned two - and one of them was from the employee to report to the patient waiting room for a spill. I explained that this had the potential to harm a patient - since what if a patient had entered the room instead of us or the other employee and you had scared them. Now maybe they had met and worked out the story - I don’t know - but I believed them. I made a decision to issue an employee counseling to them for poor judgment. As I look back on this situation - it always gives me a little smile - knowing that the employee was just trying to have a little fun at work.
Thank you!
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