The Keith Olbermann suspension will end today. I guess he will be back on NBC tonight. I wonder what he will say.
I am sure he needs the job and needs the money … It would be hard for me not to tell NBC on the air to suck my dick.
I did a weekly radio program on WRUL (Radio New York Worldwide) back when I was a teenage. The program was recorded at KMBC radio/TV and sent by mail to WRUL and was on the air two or three times each week depending on the time of the year. I put in one broadcast a news story about the FCC investigating WINB (another shortwave broadcast station). Well when I heard my broadcast that week WRUL radio had cut that story out of my broadcast.
So the next week I put in my broadcast about WRUL radio cutting the story out and blasted WRUL for cutting it out. They never broadcast that show and I was off the air for good. I had a printed monthly publication that I put out each month so I put the entire story in that and it went out around the world and was picked up by shortwave listening clubs and publications around the world.
I was also, like Olbermann, suspended from work for three days without pay. That took place in the 90s. I worked for Research Medical Center as a security officer. We had about 25 security officers in our department. I was the only one in our department that was also an EMT. The director of security asked me to take on the duties of being a CPR instructor for the hospital. So for years I would teach and certify hospital employees in CRP. (I was a AHA instructor.)
When I certified employees at the little hospital I worked at – Research Belton Hospital I would punch my time card. When I went down to the big main hospital I did not even time in and so I was doing it for free at Research Medical Center.
Well I was working the weekend at RBH and one of our ER nurses, an RN, had been on vacation when we did CPR certification at RBH. She came to work to work her 12 hour shift on Saturday at 7 PM and was to work until 7 AM. There was a notice on the bulletin board that any nurse that did not have a current CPR certification after midnight could not work.
So I gave the nurse the written test and talked with her about test. I did not have a manikin at RBH at that time so I told her the next time we had a manikin we would have her do that part of the test. I gave her a CPR certification card.
Well one of the day shift nurses at the hospital did not like me because she had got into trouble and got written up and she was sure that I was the one that wrote her up. (I was not the one that wrote her up. In fact security had nothing to do with her write up and her problems.) She reported me to the director of security for not using a manikin.
The director of security had my supervisor do an investigation. My supervisor came and asked me did you give the nurse a CPR card without testing with the manikin. I said “yes.”
The director of security wrote me up for “falsification of hospital documents” and suspended me for three days without pay and he had the American Heart Association revoke my CPR instructor card.
That was the end of security having a CPR instructor and RBH had a hard time finding a nurse to become a CRP instructor. They were all pissed at the hospital.
They did get a nursing house supervisor to take on the job and she got certified as an instructor. She then attended a big AHA meeting in Kansas City and the head of the AHA at the meeting said “we all certify someone sometimes without having them do the testing” but we should not do that! The nurse came back and told me she could not believe he said that at the big meeting and that she was thinking of me when he said it.
I never got upset by the two things that happened to me.
I bet Keith Olbermann is going to be pissed big time.
Thanks for sharing this story with us. Kudos to you!
Posted by: Security Guard Card | Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 08:50