thank god for new kids

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

the new kid got a call on the radio today. the guy who normally covers this zone in the hospital had already left, they needed a keyboard in the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit, basically where you go after you have surgery or whatever and you're coming out of general anesthetic).

the new kid didn't know where it was, so i walked him over there.

they have small carts with computer setups near each bed. they pointed to one and said that was the one giving them the problems. keyboard wasn't working. NORMALLY i'd find some sort of small fix that the users didn't think to check. like, it not being plugged in or something. not this time.

the nurse said "yeah, we had a patient throw up on the keyboard."

....

"go to it new kid!"

the keyboard was wiretied down, as well as the rest of the cables, just about to hell and back. i wasn't going to TOUCH anything, but i was going to cut the new kid some slack. literally. i procured some scissors from the nearest nurse, and SNIP'd the keyboard cable. that let him remove it, unplug the old (now just a wire) from the comp and plug the new one in.

:)

Valis

Comments

[dkphoenix.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a call I took once where the guy couldn't get me the serial numbers off his assorted hubs because the rack was located in the basement, underneath the main sewer line, which took the whole thing out when it broke. When the rack came in, it was wrapped in plastic sheeting and had little wads of paper and visible "solids" on it. (Or so I was told, fortunately, I didn't get to see it.)

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

i was just happy it wasn't a LAPTOP

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I just love when the opportunity comes to just cut cables.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

*thinking... un-wire tie... re-wire tie... hmmm... *snip**

[vortex.livejournal.com]

Hey!

I get to visit the PACU (well, not your PACU) next tuesday!...

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

DAMN! there are a few things i could think of to do to you under anesthesia...

this suddenly reminds me of southpark...

[vortex.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't cut anything off, you can do whatever you want, Snuggle Bunny!...

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

"Go to it new kid!"

Bwahahahaha. Win.

[canray.livejournal.com]

"Go get her, Ray!"

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

BWWWWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

swish!

[genjutsu-01.livejournal.com]

when I was the new guy I normally got sent to find stupid things such as a VGA to ethernet converter.........like an asshole I went looking for it.

Hard drive fault in room SC203........was a storage cupboard.....which I was locked in for my stupidity.

Also whenever I filled out hardware requests the products guys liked to give me reference numbers such as 654-1L0V3M3N

needless to say im not working there anymore

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

sounds like a fun place! if you aren't the new kid...

[forge.livejournal.com]

we constantly did stuff like that when I was enlisted. Like getting 100 yards of flightline (flightline is where the planes are), going to weather to find Major Storm (that one never got old), etc

We simply called it FNG (fuckin new guy) syndrome.

[jecook]

yeah my boss at [isp] had me call up a vendor looking for a ladder rack bender... they both had a good laugh at my expense.

[forge.livejournal.com]

bwahahahaha

*takes notes*

[forge.livejournal.com]

I always love making my newbies hunt for ID10T forms...

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

ooohhhh... i think i might suddenly need some of those...

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

I had to replace one of my rep's keyboards because he had live ants crawling in and out of it.


No where near as bad a vomit, but still.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

but question is... just what was he doing that caused ants to become enamored with his keyboard?

*shudders*

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

didn't ask, and really didn't want to know.