u/Flaky-Basket

Why are lab assistants always being the first to be blamed by lab supervisors and management...? I've been an MLS for 13 years and the current company I've worked at for 5 has such a high turn over rate of lab assistants. In the time I've been here, they've gone through probably 30-40 assistants. One incident I remember happening was a send out person losing a urine cup. The protocol at the time was the lab assistants didn't deal with send out stuff and handed it directly to the appropriate people. Well, since there were no extras, that cup was gone. The boss lady called the lab assistant who gave the cup to the send out person into the conference room and grilled the poor girl for 20 minutes. Well, they later found the cup and instead of management saying sorry, they just enacted a policy that even send out stuff needs extras taken if there is enough. The fun ier part of this story is the lab supervisors was called into the meeting too and yelled at the assistant. The supervisor apologized and then later admitted she had no idea what she was yelling at the assistant about....how crazy is that