"I had this one call..."

[mikie]

Do people ever get on your nerves (colleagues, mostly) for always starting or interrupting conversation with, "I had this one call..." and "I was like to the medic..." ?

Partially ask because I have a colleague that does and after a while, it gets in the way of work (EMT-B instructor/adjuncts). How can I gently tell him to STFU!

[sorry if you're one of those peolpe, no offense. It's nothing personal.]

 

[Wyoming Medic]

Do the same thing in response. Do it until they say something. Become so obnoxious that YOU WIN,

That is the way of EMS grasshopper. B)

Wy medic

 

[mycrofft]

Hey, you guys, I'm right here! I can hear you! Guys!...

Being a garrulous old coot, let me tell you that it can be that the informant is trying to be important because of self-doubt, or trying to be the Jedi Master, or maybe forgot he even told you the story before.
Work out a code. If it's a rerun, do somerthing like ask how his dog is or something!
If the informant is young, check the veracity. Might be a Munchausen.

 

[jochi1543]

Even worse when you work with a compulsive liar who starts telling you about the calls YOU had together just a few weeks ago and claiming they did them with someone else/at another service/couple of years ago/whatever and/or adding gory details that were absent. Every MVC seems to have had more and more passengers every single time...

 

[silver]

I feel like this happens in almost every field. When i was doing billing, we always are like this one time with an insurance company or with a patient...

Its part of the whole environment of the job if the supervisors let it be that way.

 

[EMTWintz]

this one time at band camp........