I also had another horrible job.
I worked as an attendent at a health center that belonged to the brazilian universal health care system. The name may look fancy, but that only means that I was the responsible for ditching out the sick poor people for not having enought doctors to attend them all.
Literally, the queue reached kilometers. I used to start working by 7 AM, and by that time, there was already a huge fucking amount of people waiting. It was extremely uncomfortable to walk by all those people while going to work, because all of them knew that I worked there and all of them kept looking weird to me. I was, literally, a 'celebrety' in the neighborhood, because I was THE GUY from the health center.
At the end, I was kinda responsible for dealing with the angry mob who didn't get their consultation.
Everything had happened there, including:
- bribery
- death threads
- corporal fights between staff and patients (more than once)
- calling over the phone a patient about a specialist consultation that just had been scheduled to just find out that the patient has died (happened 2x).
This was a conversation that I had over the phone one time:
Me: "Oh, we just scheduled the "INSERT PATIENT NAME HERE" cardiologist consultation"
Person in the other side, crying: "The "INSERT PATIENT NAMER HERE" had an heart attack last week;
- rape accusations (including a doctor arrested)
And, of course, I had to see all kind of horrendous diseases in a daily basis. Vomit, blood and these kind of thing.
Really heavy stuff. It was pretty common to see coworkers crying at work.
I worked in that hell for 1,5 years. After that, dealing with businessman and lawyers turned out to be easy.
Last edited by Carnage; Nov 5, 2019 at 02:22 AM.