History NightmareFuel / NotAlwaysWorking

* [[https://notalwaysworking.com/youve-left-trail/46402 This dentist]] is so out of it that she begins to ask the OP if they're allergic to a particular type of anaesthetic, before trailing off and ''jabbing them with it anyway''.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/a-negative-reaction-to-a-negative-reaction/31907 This nurse]] dismisses a woman's serious allergic reaction as "just a heat rash" and makes her wait nearly an hour for treatment. If a doctor hadn't noticed and intervened, she easily could have died.

* [[https://notalwaysworking.com/a-negative-reaction-to-a-negative-reaction/31907 This nurse]] allowed a woman to have a severe allergic reaction for nearly an hour because she dismissed her hives as just being heat rash. When the doctor finally does get to treating her, he ends up slapping her to make sure she doesn't fall asleep, and he flat out tells her that if she had been waiting much longer, they might not have been able to save her.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death/35075 This entire dentist]]'[[http://notalwaysworking.com/snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death/35075 s office]] doesn't think this woman is their top priority even though her jaw is severely infected to the point where she would have ''died'' from it. [[LaserGuidedKarma There is one good thing about this story: she immediately drops them after she gets better]].

** [[http://notalwaysworking.com/present-management-stress-disorder/38257 This restaurant worker]] with post-traumatic stress disorder (from being caught in a hostage situation) is forced to relive the nightmare when the assistant manager, deciding the worker is just being lazy (rather than taking a much-needed stress break during a lull in the workday), decides to block him from leaving by barricading the room. The worker suffers a panic attack as a result. Thankfully, the other workers see what's being done, and quickly help him out--by unbarricading the door, retrieving the necessary medication, and calling the (much more understanding) boss, who [[LaserGuidedKarma fires the assistant manager for not only disregarding the worker's PTSD, but also for violating the fire code in blocking the exit.]]
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/a-fevered-response/39280 This doctor]] has some rather terrifyingly SkewedPriorities. The submitter, as a six-month-old baby, suddenly starts running a bad fever, and the doctor ''completely ignores it'' to argue about a birthmark that hasn't disappeared yet because she's, get this, still only six months old. The parents eventually take her to their regular doctor, learning that five other babies were running the same unexplained fever - and the submitter was the only one of the six to survive the night.

* Then there's the over-arching FridgeHorror that many of the offenders in the above stories have committed punishable crimes or actionable offences[[labelnote:* ]](gross negligence, wrongful/unfair dismissal, infliction of emotional distress, sexual harassment, threatening behavior, endangerment, willful violation, workplace harassment/violence/bullying, the list goes on)[[/labelnote]], but [[KarmaHoudini have not been punished at all]], usually because the victim didn't take any action against them. In many cases, the victim simply quit the job (if they were an employee) or withdrew their patronage (if they were a customer) and left it at that, leaving the offender to go about their own merry life, still in their position of power, probably still treating people that way, possibly ruining lives or even putting them in danger[[labelnote:* ]](we can only hope no actual deaths result, but the numbers are against us)[[/labelnote]]. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing", ''indeed''.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/present-management-stress-disorder/38257 This restaurant worker]] with post-traumatic stress disorder (from being caught in a hostage situation) is forced to relive the nightmare when the assistant manager, deciding the worker is just being lazy (rather than taking a much-needed stress break during a lull in the workday), decides to block him from leaving by barricading the room. The worker suffers a panic attack as a result. Thankfully, the other workers see what's being done, and quickly help him out--by unbarricading the door, retrieving the necessary medication, and calling the (much more understanding) boss, who [[LaserGuidedKarma fires the assistant manager for not only disregarding the worker]]'[[LaserGuidedKarma s PTSD, but also for violating the fire code in blocking the exit]].

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/an-alarming-way-to-get-fired/26678 This teacher]] forced her class to continue to work on their exam when the fire alarms went off. She didn\'t even care about the fact that one of the classrooms was actually on fire, and the students were only allowed to leave once the class rep came back with the school\'s director. Imagine what would have happened if the fire was allowed to spread...
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/much-a-gluten-about-nothing/27794 These two girls]] don\'t understand that celiacs are \'\'really\'\' intolerant to gluten, and were sloppy about their work. What if someone had an allergic reaction? The scariest part is the implications of the last few lines - it\'s likely the submitter, and probably others, \'\'did\'\' have an allergic reaction.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/when-healthcare-gets-careless/28694 This story]]. For a place where workers are supposed to be saving (or at least prolonging) people\'s lives, apparently not a single one of its nurses has even the slightest bit of competence in their field - they refuse to believe that an empty catheter can clot, flat-out tell someone who knows better it hasn\'t clotted when it clearly has, and then take their precious time responding to a patient who is \'\'having an allergic reaction to an antibiotic\'\'.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/these-arent-aches-you-can-fake/29028 This doctor]] nearly caused a photographer to lose their sight, simply because they didn\'t think it was anything more serious than a headache.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/the-hippocratic-loaf/28338 In this story]], a woman\'s husband is suffering from a stroke. Even though she was able to get him into their car and to the hospital parking lot, it had gotten so bad that she couldn\'t move him. When she asks a nurse for a wheelchair, she is flat out refused. The nurse\'s reason? \'\'[[InsaneTrollLogic He has to actually be in the hospital to get a wheelchair]]\'\'. The woman keeps desperately pleading the nurse to help her but to no avail. Luckily, the woman was able to get an off duty paramedic to help her husband.

** The boss was probably very DrunkWithPower, and wanted his orders followed \'\'to the letter\'\', personal safety be damned!
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/immaculate-misconception-part-3/29617 These nurses and doctors]] nearly caused a 19-year-old girl to die of appendicitis because they believed she was pregnant (she was a virgin), refusing to even consider the possibility until a nurse realized the problem because of an \'\'ultrasound\'\'. Even then, the doctor refused to believe it was appendicitis and did not want to come in.
* Classic PointyHairedBoss right [[http://notalwaysworking.com/sub-par-managers-dont-rise-to-the-occasion/30126 here]]. When asked why on earth he didn\'t use the emergency key to bring a broken elevator to the ground floor to let out the person trapped inside, his reply was \"Oh, yeah, I guess I could have done that...\" and seems to assume that the emergency call function in an elevator is simply there to be there, not because it\'s supposed to be used in, you know, an \'\'emergency\'\'.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency/29819 This library guard]] refused to help a man having seizures on the grounds that they could be sued. Worse of all, when a person does help the man, he threatened with suing \'\'them\'\', and when emergency services arrive, the guard tried to deny them access! It was already bad that the rest of the patrons suffered BystanderSyndrome, this guard was actually going out of his way to deny something was even happening and to deny help. Fortunately the seizure patient was fine and [[LaserGuidedKarma the guard was arrested for attempting to obstruct emergency services, and subsequently lost his job due to gaining a criminal record.]]
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/less-heretical-more-theoretical/30842 This nurse]], due to her incompetence, prudishness, and idiocy. She gave a patient a medication that the patient is allergic to. Even when the patient said she was allergic to that, the nurse \'\'injected most of it\'\' into her anyway, believing that the patient was wrong because it was an anti-allergen. Worse yet, the patient naturally reacted badly to it, and the doctor who came in said that \'\'there was nothing they could do\'\' after the fact. If the patient had been any more allergic, it\'s very likely that the nurse could have \'\'killed her\'\', all over a damn curse word.

** Same for [[http://notalwaysworking.com/should-have-been-childs-play/36264 this daycare]], where an employee started locking up before the submitter came to pick up her months-old daughter, and just to make it worse starts arguing with her about it rather than just \'\'unlocking everything and double-checking\'\'. It takes the submitter threatening to call the police before she\'s allowed in - surprise again, her daughter was still in there, and she never left her there again after this incident.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/an-acute-lack-of-care/30666 This thirteen-year-old boy]] was misdiagnosed with gas by a rather flippant doctor who blew off any other concerns. Luckily the father went to another doctor for a second opinion, where the child was diagnosed with acute appendicitis...and his appendix actually ruptured \'\'mid-surgery.\'\' If they\'d been just a little later, or had gone with the first diagnosis, the kid would be dead.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/a-negative-reaction-to-a-negative-reaction/31907 This nurse]] dismisses a woman\'s serious allergic reaction as \"just a heat rash\" and makes her wait nearly an hour for treatment. If a doctor hadn\'t noticed and intervened, she easily could have died.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/soft-drink-hard-taste/31910 This movie theater worker]] uses a packet of bleach concentrate, use for bathroom drains, to clean the soda machine nozzles much to his co-worker\'s horror! What\'s worse was the revelation the worker has been using it all the time! Just how many customers got sick from drinking from that machine?
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/women-of-the-night-shift/32272 This boss]] writes up his employee for not giving a customer a prostitute when \'\'prostitution is illegal\'\', saying that \"what the police don\'t know won\'t hurt them\". Given that a customer can just walk into his hotel, request a prostitute, and expect to be serviced, how many times has he done this? And how many other illegal activities does he condone in his hotel?
* Let\'s hope [[http://notalwaysworking.com/not-taking-his-job-deathly-seriously/32520 this funeral home director]] was kidding when they said they don\'t check to see if a person is really dead before cremation.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/scripted-unencrypted/33442 This story]] starts out with backstory that fits perfectly - a woman minding her own business suddenly receives a phone call from someone she\'s never met before, who makes threats of sexual assault after proving he somehow knows her name and address.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/sleeping-on-the-job/33673 In this story]], a young woman (age unknown but her brother is seven) goes in for eye surgery - and as soon as the surgery is finished she is simply thrown out of the office, heavily medicated to the point that she\'s barely conscious, without anyone bothering to make sure that she had a ride home or that someone would be coming to pick her up. Her mother, there to pick her up after her surgery, ends up waiting until the office starts to \'\'close for the day\'\' without anyone having any clue (or seeming to care) where her daughter is; it\'s only because she flatly refuses to leave the office that the nurses bother to go looking and find her daughter half-asleep on a couch in the building\'s lobby, six floors down, still so doped that she can barely walk. We also get this line:
--> \'\'\'Doctor\'\'\': \"[[SomebodyElsesProblem ...I\'m not responsible for what happens to her after surgery. Get out so we can go home.]]\"
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/some-coworkers-are-just-suffocating/34465 These cooks]] decide to lock an autistic, claustrophobic co-worker in the freezer simply to be jerks. Even worse, the manager hears about this \'\'[[BadBoss and does not care]]\'\'.

** Even worse, said asshole \'\'laughs\'\' at the now-freezing woman, claiming that \'\'\"the look on [her] face was hilarious!\"\'\' Even \'\'even\'\' worse, said boss dumps the blame all on her, saying that she shouldn\'t have been near the freezer in the first place, like it was \'\'her\'\' fault she got locked in.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/got-their-flatlines-crossed/35999 These nurses]] take their sweet time reacting to a flatline on a fetal heart monitor. It stabilizes on its own before they arrive, so they glibly chalk it up to a glitch. Five minutes later it happens again, the doctor arrives immediately...\'\'and he starts asking \'\'\'the patient\'s husband\'\'\' what he should do\'\'.
-->\'\'\'Husband:\'\'\' I think one of us went to medical school, and I sure as [[PrecisionFStrike h***]] hope it was you!
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death/35075 This entire dentist\'s office]] doesn\'t think this woman is their top priority even though her jaw is severely infected to the point where she would have \'\'died\'\' from it. [[LaserGuidedKarma There is one good thing about this story: she immediately drops them after she gets better]].
* Then there\'s the over-arching FridgeHorror that many of the offenders in the above stories have committed punishable crimes or actionable offences[[labelnote:*]](gross negligence, wrongful/unfair dismissal, infliction of emotional distress, sexual harassment, threatening behavior, endangerment, willful violation, workplace harassment/violence/bullying, the list goes on)[[/labelnote]], but [[KarmaHoudini have not been punished at all]], usually because the victim didn\'t take any action against them. In many cases, the victim simply quit the job (if they were an employee) or withdrew their patronage (if they were a customer) and left it at that, leaving the offender to go about their own merry life, still in their position of power, probably still treating people that way, possibly ruining lives or even putting them in danger[[labelnote:*]](we can only hope no actual deaths result, but the numbers are against us)[[/labelnote]]. \"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing\", \'\'indeed\'\'.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/not-so-closely-guarded/37507 This security guard]] literally watches the submitter fight off an attacker, losing her car keys and phone in the process, rather than stepping in and helping because he\'s decided that, as a security guard, \'\'protecting people\'\' is not his job.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/present-management-stress-disorder/38257 This restaurant worker]] with post-traumatic stress disorder (from being caught in a hostage situation) is forced to relive the nightmare when the assistant manager, deciding the worker is just being lazy (rather than taking a much-needed stress break during a lull in the workday), decides to block him from leaving by barricading the room. The worker suffers a panic attack as a result. Thankfully, the other workers see what\'s being done, and quickly help him out--by unbarricading the door, retrieving the necessary medication, and calling the (much more understanding) boss, who [[LaserGuidedKarma fires the assistant manager for not only disregarding the worker\'s PTSD, but also for violating the fire code in blocking the exit]].
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/a-fevered-response/39280 This doctor]] has some rather terrifyingly SkewedPriorities. The submitter, as a six-month-old baby, suddenly starts running a bad fever, and the doctor \'\'completely ignores it\'\' to argue about a birthmark that hasn\'t disappeared yet because she\'s, get this, still only six months old. The parents eventually take her to their regular doctor, learning that five other babies were running the same unexplained fever - and the submitter was the only one of the six to survive the night.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/an-alarming-way-to-get-fired/26678 This teacher]] forced her class to continue to work on their exam when the fire alarms went off. She didn't even care about the fact that one of the classrooms was actually on fire, and the students were only allowed to leave once the class rep came back with the school's director. Imagine what would have happened if the fire was allowed to spread...
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/much-a-gluten-about-nothing/27794 These two girls]] don't understand that celiacs are ''really'' intolerant to gluten, and were sloppy about their work. What if someone had an allergic reaction? The scariest part is the implications of the last few lines - it's likely the submitter, and probably others, ''did'' have an allergic reaction.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/when-healthcare-gets-careless/28694 This story]]. For a place where workers are supposed to be saving (or at least prolonging) people's lives, apparently not a single one of its nurses has even the slightest bit of competence in their field - they refuse to believe that an empty catheter can clot, flat-out tell someone who knows better it hasn't clotted when it clearly has, and then take their precious time responding to a patient who is ''having an allergic reaction to an antibiotic''.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/these-arent-aches-you-can-fake/29028 This doctor]] nearly caused a photographer to lose their sight, simply because they didn't think it was anything more serious than a headache.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/the-hippocratic-loaf/28338 In this story]], a woman's husband is suffering from a stroke. Even though she was able to get him into their car and to the hospital parking lot, it had gotten so bad that she couldn't move him. When she asks a nurse for a wheelchair, she is flat out refused. The nurse's reason? ''[[InsaneTrollLogic He has to actually be in the hospital to get a wheelchair]]''. The woman keeps desperately pleading the nurse to help her but to no avail. Luckily, the woman was able to get an off duty paramedic to help her husband.

** The boss was probably very DrunkWithPower, and wanted his orders followed ''to the letter'', personal safety be damned!
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/immaculate-misconception-part-3/29617 These nurses and doctors]] nearly caused a 19-year-old girl to die of appendicitis because they believed she was pregnant (she was a virgin), refusing to even consider the possibility until a nurse realized the problem because of an ''ultrasound''. Even then, the doctor refused to believe it was appendicitis and did not want to come in.
* Classic PointyHairedBoss right [[http://notalwaysworking.com/sub-par-managers-dont-rise-to-the-occasion/30126 here]]. When asked why on earth he didn't use the emergency key to bring a broken elevator to the ground floor to let out the person trapped inside, his reply was "Oh, yeah, I guess I could have done that..." and seems to assume that the emergency call function in an elevator is simply there to be there, not because it's supposed to be used in, you know, an ''emergency''.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency/29819 This library guard]] refused to help a man having seizures on the grounds that they could be sued. Worse of all, when a person does help the man, he threatened with suing ''them'', and when emergency services arrive, the guard tried to deny them access! It was already bad that the rest of the patrons suffered BystanderSyndrome, this guard was actually going out of his way to deny something was even happening and to deny help. Fortunately the seizure patient was fine and [[LaserGuidedKarma the guard was arrested for attempting to obstruct emergency services, and subsequently lost his job due to gaining a criminal record.]]
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/less-heretical-more-theoretical/30842 This nurse]], due to her incompetence, prudishness, and idiocy. She gave a patient a medication that the patient is allergic to. Even when the patient said she was allergic to that, the nurse ''injected most of it'' into her anyway, believing that the patient was wrong because it was an anti-allergen. Worse yet, the patient naturally reacted badly to it, and the doctor who came in said that ''there was nothing they could do'' after the fact. If the patient had been any more allergic, it's very likely that the nurse could have ''killed her'', all over a damn curse word.

** Same for [[http://notalwaysworking.com/should-have-been-childs-play/36264 this daycare]], where an employee started locking up before the submitter came to pick up her months-old daughter, and just to make it worse starts arguing with her about it rather than just ''unlocking everything and double-checking''. It takes the submitter threatening to call the police before she's allowed in - surprise again, her daughter was still in there, and she never left her there again after this incident.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/an-acute-lack-of-care/30666 This thirteen-year-old boy]] was misdiagnosed with gas by a rather flippant doctor who blew off any other concerns. Luckily the father went to another doctor for a second opinion, where the child was diagnosed with acute appendicitis...and his appendix actually ruptured ''mid-surgery.'' If they'd been just a little later, or had gone with the first diagnosis, the kid would be dead.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/a-negative-reaction-to-a-negative-reaction/31907 This nurse]] dismisses a woman's serious allergic reaction as "just a heat rash" and makes her wait nearly an hour for treatment. If a doctor hadn't noticed and intervened, she easily could have died.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/soft-drink-hard-taste/31910 This movie theater worker]] uses a packet of bleach concentrate, use for bathroom drains, to clean the soda machine nozzles much to his co-worker's horror! What's worse was the revelation the worker has been using it all the time! Just how many customers got sick from drinking from that machine?
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/women-of-the-night-shift/32272 This boss]] writes up his employee for not giving a customer a prostitute when ''prostitution is illegal'', saying that "what the police don't know won't hurt them". Given that a customer can just walk into his hotel, request a prostitute, and expect to be serviced, how many times has he done this? And how many other illegal activities does he condone in his hotel?
* Let's hope [[http://notalwaysworking.com/not-taking-his-job-deathly-seriously/32520 this funeral home director]] was kidding when they said they don't check to see if a person is really dead before cremation.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/scripted-unencrypted/33442 This story]] starts out with backstory that fits perfectly - a woman minding her own business suddenly receives a phone call from someone she's never met before, who makes threats of sexual assault after proving he somehow knows her name and address.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/sleeping-on-the-job/33673 In this story]], a young woman (age unknown but her brother is seven) goes in for eye surgery - and as soon as the surgery is finished she is simply thrown out of the office, heavily medicated to the point that she's barely conscious, without anyone bothering to make sure that she had a ride home or that someone would be coming to pick her up. Her mother, there to pick her up after her surgery, ends up waiting until the office starts to ''close for the day'' without anyone having any clue (or seeming to care) where her daughter is; it's only because she flatly refuses to leave the office that the nurses bother to go looking and find her daughter half-asleep on a couch in the building's lobby, six floors down, still so doped that she can barely walk. We also get this line:
--> '''Doctor''': "[[SomebodyElsesProblem ...I'm not responsible for what happens to her after surgery. Get out so we can go home.]]"
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/some-coworkers-are-just-suffocating/34465 These cooks]] decide to lock an autistic, claustrophobic co-worker in the freezer simply to be jerks. Even worse, the manager hears about this ''[[BadBoss and does not care]]''.

** Even worse, said asshole ''laughs'' at the now-freezing woman, claiming that ''"the look on [her] face was hilarious!"'' Even ''even'' worse, said boss dumps the blame all on her, saying that she shouldn't have been near the freezer in the first place, like it was ''her'' fault she got locked in.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/got-their-flatlines-crossed/35999 These nurses]] take their sweet time reacting to a flatline on a fetal heart monitor. It stabilizes on its own before they arrive, so they glibly chalk it up to a glitch. Five minutes later it happens again, the doctor arrives immediately...''and he starts asking '''the patient's husband''' what he should do''.
-->'''Husband:''' I think one of us went to medical school, and I sure as [[PrecisionFStrike h***]] hope it was you!
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death/35075 This entire dentist's office]] doesn't think this woman is their top priority even though her jaw is severely infected to the point where she would have ''died'' from it. [[LaserGuidedKarma There is one good thing about this story: she immediately drops them after she gets better]].
* Then there's the over-arching FridgeHorror that many of the offenders in the above stories have committed punishable crimes or actionable offences[[labelnote:*]](gross negligence, wrongful/unfair dismissal, infliction of emotional distress, sexual harassment, threatening behavior, endangerment, willful violation, workplace harassment/violence/bullying, the list goes on)[[/labelnote]], but [[KarmaHoudini have not been punished at all]], usually because the victim didn't take any action against them. In many cases, the victim simply quit the job (if they were an employee) or withdrew their patronage (if they were a customer) and left it at that, leaving the offender to go about their own merry life, still in their position of power, probably still treating people that way, possibly ruining lives or even putting them in danger[[labelnote:*]](we can only hope no actual deaths result, but the numbers are against us)[[/labelnote]]. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing", ''indeed''.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/not-so-closely-guarded/37507 This security guard]] literally watches the submitter fight off an attacker, losing her car keys and phone in the process, rather than stepping in and helping because he's decided that, as a security guard, ''protecting people'' is not his job.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/present-management-stress-disorder/38257 This restaurant worker]] with post-traumatic stress disorder (from being caught in a hostage situation) is forced to relive the nightmare when the assistant manager, deciding the worker is just being lazy (rather than taking a much-needed stress break during a lull in the workday), decides to block him from leaving by barricading the room. The worker suffers a panic attack as a result. Thankfully, the other workers see what's being done, and quickly help him out--by unbarricading the door, retrieving the necessary medication, and calling the (much more understanding) boss, who [[LaserGuidedKarma fires the assistant manager for not only disregarding the worker's PTSD, but also for violating the fire code in blocking the exit]].

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/much-a-gluten-about-nothing/27794 These two girls]] don't understand that celiacs are ''really'' intolerant to gluten, and were sloppy about their work. What if someone had an allergic reaction? The scariest part is the implications of the last few lines - it's possible someone ''did'' have an allergic reaction.
* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/night-of-the-working-dead/28196 This story]] about a severely sleep-deprived restaurant worker is painful to read. Trying to pull two overly long shifts in two separate jobs, leaving only four hours a night for sleep can cause some serious mental and physical trauma. And her coworkers or managers didn't even notice in either place until a regular had to interfere when she fainted!

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/present-management-stress-disorder/38257 This restaurant worker]] with post-traumatic stress disorder (from being caught in a hostage situation) is forced to relive the nightmare when the assistant manager, deciding the worker is just being lazy (rather than taking a much-needed stress break during a lull in the workday), decides to block him from leaving by barricading the room. The worker suffers a panic attack as a result. Thankfully, the other workers see what's being done, and quickly help him out--by unbarricading the door, retrieving the necessary medication, and calling the (much more understanding) boss, who [[LaserGuidedKarma fires the assistant manager for not only disregarding the worker's PTSD, but for violating the fire code in blocking the exit]].

* --http://notalwaysworking.com/some-things-can-weight-to-be-said-part-3/27432 This employee]], who genuinely seems to believe that fat people are not human.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/less-heretical-more-theoretical/30842 This nurse]], due to her incompetence, prudishness, and idiocy. She gave a patient a medication that the patient is allergic to. Even when the patient said she was allergic to that, the nurse ''injected the most if the medication'' into her anyway, believing that the patient was wrong because it was an anti-allergen. Worse yet, the patient naturally reacted badly to it, and the doctor who came in said that ''there was nothing they could do'' after the fact. If the patient had been any more allergic, it's very likely that the nurse could have ''killed her'', all over a damn curse word.

--> '''Doctor''': "[[SomebodyElsesProblem ...I’m not responsible for what happens to her after surgery. Get out so we can go home.]]"

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/got-their-flatlines-crossed/35999 These nurses]] take their sweet time reacting to a flatline on a fetal heart monitor. It stabilizes on its own before they arrive, but then five minutes later it happens again, the doctor arrives immediately... ''and he starts asking '''the patient''' what he should do''.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/a-negative-reaction-to-a-negative-reaction/31907 this nurse]] dismisses a woman's serious allergic reaction as "just a heat rash" and makes her wait for an hour for treatment, if a doctor hadn't noticed and intervened she easily could have died.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/some-coworkers-are-just-suffocating/34465 These cooks]] decide to lock an autistic, claustrophobic co-worker in the freezer for absolutely no reason whatsoever. ''(They had a reason, even though that reason was basically'' ItAmusedMe.) Even worse, the manager hears about this ''[[BadBoss and does not care]]''.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/much-a-gluten-about-nothing/27794 These two guys]] don't understand that celiacs are ''really'' intolerant to gluten, and were sloppy about their work. What if someone had an allergic reaction? The scariest part is the implications of the last few lines - it's possible someone ''did'' have an allergic reaction.

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/some-coworkers-are-just-suffocating/34465 These cooks]] decide to lock an autistic, claustrophobic co-worker in the freezer for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Even worse, the manager hears about this ''[[BadBoss and does not care]]''.

--> '''Doctor''': "...I’m not responsible for what happens to her after surgery. Get out so we can go home.”

* [[http://notalwaysworking.com/some-coworkers-are-just-suffocating/34465 These cooks]] decide to lock an autistic, claustrophobic co-worker in the freezer for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Even worse, the manager hears about this ''[[BadBoss and does not care]]''.

--> '''Doctor''': "...I’m not responsible for what happens to her after surgery. Get out so we can go home.”