To give you a bit of background first. I have a degree in general biology, and one year of internship in a Medical Technology program. I have passed the test and I am a Certified Medical Technologist with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. I have the right to add after my name MT(ASCP).
In the Lab where I work, there are a number of lab assistants - no certification and some MLT (Medical Lab Technicians) and some are in a strange category called Non Registered Technicians. By Federal law via CLIA - the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act - Only MTs like me are allowed to perform high complexity tests, like reading and interpreting bacterial cultures.
This is all preface to the latest fiasco. We now have two supervisors running the lab, one for days and one for evenings. They are both MLTs and have no clue about how to read plates or how that part of the lab is run. But in spite of that, they are running it.
Madness.
This has come about because most Medical Technologists like me know what happens in the supervisor's office and wouldn't work in there. I might do it for enough money, but I have had it confirmed that my pay is higher than what they are getting as supervisors. And the thing is that the supervisors are so busy pushing around corporate papers they never come out into the lab to see and learn what is going on. And when something goes wrong they don't have a clue what to do about it. It is as if they are supervising some fantasy of a lab that they have in their heads and are not connected to the real world.
Sigh. The insanity continues.
Its the same everywhere; you don't necessarily get promoted due to your qualifications. And really? Qualified people are far too intelligent to work in management. Management takes a whole different type of stupid.
ReplyDeleteIt's called the Peter Principle, and it happens in government too:)
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