Stupid Bitch
When I was a lowly Radiographer I never knew who this woman was. The Chief Information Officer. Who was that and what did she do? Then I got promoted, double the salary, and a load of responsibility.
Being a person in a 'caring' profession, I have no choice but to care, and whether its a patient in front of me, or the system I am responsible for, I will do my best to do my best.

Systems get old and need replacing. We were looking at possibilities when by accident one of this woman's underlings dropped into my lap a tender for a regional solution of such monumental shitness it would have rendered the Radiologists job impossible and directly compromised patient safety.

Being green and enthusiastic I wrote an e mail pointing out the shortcomings of the proposed system to a lot of important clinical people and to the Chief Executive. This is when I met her. The CIO.

I saw in front of me a woman in her late 40's. Dressed smartly, small and quite attractive. As we spoke I realized that she was flirting with the Clinical Director of Radiology, happily for me, he is a happily married gentlemen who wouldn't dream of playing on the side. She them tried the charm with me, whilst simultaneously trying the 'this is bigger than you' line. I told her where my loyalty lay, and that her scheme was doomed to failure. She tried to then get me on the committee to implement it! I declined siting a conflict of interest (I was in the process of buying 2 million dollars worth of gear from a tenderer for this project) so escaped.

Over the next year we went through the tender process, my IT/IS colleges would quake in fear at this woman's name. She had them terrified, to the point where everything that came out of their mouths would be '** wouldn't agree" or'** wants us to" I would say do the right thing, bollocks to **.

It came to a head when we picked a system that she didn't want. I was at a meeting where I had to unsubtly argue that she was both ignorant of the system, and ignorant of the clinical needs and that she should have no part of the decision. She did things like tell a vendor he should sue us in an open meeting (remember she was the CIO for the company) that our tendering process was wrong and that the team that choose the system were swayed by accommodation on the site visits!!!

She was poison.

It all ended happily when her mate left the Chief Exec job and was replaced by an outsider. After a report from the procurement team, the Chief Finacial Offocer and the Chief Operating Officer she left us..

And got promoted to a national position!!

Happily more pay, but less influence.

Later on I was told that she got her job because she was fucking the old Chief Exec, that the reason that she stopped interfering was that in that teleconference someone traced her telephone line to the same one being used by the unsuccessful tenderer, and she was later seen entering his hotel room on another tender visit.

Nice.
(micmac is happy as a pig in shite, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 23:26, 11 replies)

It truly is terrifying but sadly unsurprising that people such as this get themselves into positions of power
We all have the capacity to congratulate ourselves for being oh so clever, and usually we turn to our tried and tested formula(s) for success the minute we hit a stumbling block. So she had wormed her way up with flattery, flaunting and full on fucking. The only way to combat people like that is to pull something that they would think nothing about doing, i.e. effectively blackmail them. Unfortunately though, this in turn will likely mean that you will start to take it upon yourself to "collect" information on those you may need to sway to your way of thinking - only one day you will try your tried and tested formula and someone will have collected something bigger on you. Well, probably.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sat 1 May 2010, 10:26, closed)

That has to be, outside of The Goat's old postings...
The most obtuse thing I have ever read on here.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sat 1 May 2010, 15:53, closed)

Obtuse?
Yeah, medical IT has that effect on most people.
(micmac is happy as a pig in shite, Sat 1 May 2010, 21:45, closed)

No you are just shit at writing.

( OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*, Sat 1 May 2010, 22:01, closed)

You Sir, are a Cunt
It is rich to be accused of being 'shit at writing' from someone who has no idea how to use a comma.

Go back to stacking shelves, and consider yourself ignored.
(micmac is happy as a pig in shite, Sun 2 May 2010, 20:13, closed)

haha!
He, really doesn't, know, how to use. Commas,
( scoshi pretending to diet since, Mon 3 May 2010, 1:26, closed)

I wasn't on about the OP
Having worked in medical IT I understand what he is on about.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 4 May 2010, 22:54, closed)

OK JB,
But then you seem to feel as though everything in the world (outside of your want-to-be-high-brow battling want-to-be-understood/loved) personal sphere is slightly obtuse, judging by your QOTW answers.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 3 May 2010, 0:23, closed)

I thought about biting, and then thought "fuck it".
Life is obtuse... or so I see it. But your statement in brackets reflects the basic human need, or so I see it. But getting personal in a QOTW reply? You have stooped to new lows.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 4 May 2010, 22:56, closed)

"The basic human need"? I'm sure there's more pressing ones
However. I could go on picking, but you're right that would be dickish. You think life's obtuse, of course it can be. I'd just suggest that simply because you've not been in a situation (or plummeted to to such lows yourself), does not mean that everything in life is. To get more Goat-ish... the more you believe that life's obtuse, the more obtuse life will be to you.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 5 May 2010, 0:20, closed)

Ah, the old GIGO approach.
I see what you mean.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 5 May 2010, 15:23, closed)