This is for the LabCorp location at 1450 Treat Blvd. in Walnut Creek.
I've been coming here for blood work for more than 10 years, but this morning was one of the WORST because I witnessed what happened, spoke up and NOTHING WAS DONE. It showed LabCorp employees did NOT adhere to professionalism nor following protocols -- PERIOD.
I was first in line to check in at the kiosk to the left of the LabCorp receiving desk as I'd been waiting outside since 7:37am (Saturdays and Sundays they open at 8am). Upon checking in and sitting waiting for my name to be called, more people filtered in and checked in. Many said they could NOT get an appointment as numerous locations were booked out, at least a week or more -- keep this in mind for later in this review. After 15-minutes had passed in waiting, two women walked in and didn't check in at the kiosk, but instead, walked right up to the front desk and immediately started getting service. In overhearing them, they stated they had a 9:30am APPOINTMENT but wanted to come early.
Sure enough, the woman working for LabCorp began processing their paperwork -- basically allowing them TO CUT IN FRONT OF THOSE OF US who could NOT get an appointment but had checked in and had been SITTING while these two women (GIVEN THEY HAD A 9:30am appointment) just strolled in and got served BEFORE any of us.
Upon my name being called, as I was first to check in this Sunday morning, I asked this other woman processing my paperwork, why the two women were taken first when they had a 9:30am appointment. She proceeded to tell me she didn't know as she didn't handle their paperwork. I told her they had not checked in and I'd like to know how they were being served before me.
Finally, now by 8:20am, I was taken back to get the blood work done. As I sat waiting, here is the phlebotomist casually making conversation with this pair of women who had CUT IN FRONT OF US -- this phlebotomist was the SAME WOMAN who processed their paperwork and allowed them TO CUT! NO JOKE. So by the time this same phlebotomist came to do to my blood work, given she was the EXACT SAME WOMAN who did the paperwork up front AND ALLOWED THESE TWO WOMEN TO CUT AHEAD OF US (WHEN THEY HAD A 9:30AM APPOINTMENT), I asked her why they were being served before us -- at least eight (8) people --, when their appointment wasn't until 9:30am. A FACTUAL STATEMENT THAT FOCUSED ON THE PRINCIPAL OF THE MATTER, CIVEN LABCORP STAFF HAD NOT FOLLOWED PROTOCOL. I even told her that I'd seen her as the one who had done their paperwork and knew they had a 9:30am appointment and yet she allowed them to get service before ANY OF US.
The Phlebotomist kept DODGING IN ANSWERING the question, until she said she was going to get someone else to do my bloodwork. She didn't like that I was calling her out on a TRUTH that she and I BOTH KNEW SHE HAD DONE AND IT WAS WRONG. So, then another woman -- the same one that had done my paperwork -- came in to draw my blood. Therefore, I point-blank asked her why this had happened?
She, too, DODGED THE QUESTION by telling me it already happened and to move on. I told her she nor her coworker were being professional in the FACT THAT NEITHER OF THEM ADMITTED FAULT AND THAT WHAT HAD HAPPENED DID NOT FOLLOW PROTOCOL. I told both that I was NOT wrong for calling this to their attention because what I CLEARLY witnessed was two women cutting in front of many of us -- unable to get appointments, but that had arrived and checked-in (followed directions for checking-in) at 8am -- and yet these two women who HAD A 9:30am APPOINTMENT were served first.
So, the fact that I spoke up, called out a FACTUAL OCCURRENCE I WITNESSED, these two LabCorp employees didn't like that they were being called out for a TRUTH that they BOTH KNEW WAS WRONG and yet wouldn't apologize nor make it right. They BOTH KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED and INSTEAD of being professional, allowed it to happen HOPING NO ONE WOULD SEE IT OR THAT OTHERS WOULD SIMPLY LOOK THE OTHER WAY.
I DID SEE IT AND SPOKE UP AND INSTEAD OF PROFESSIONALISM TO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR WRONGDOING, THEY BOTH TRIED TO DOWNPLAY IT AND SKIRT IT UNDER THE RUG.
In this current environment, it's NOT surprising this is happening -- it happens everywhere as so many lack professionalism and ethics, let alone adhering to protocol. IBOTTOM LINE: I do NOT feel badly for speaking up about a TRUTH because all it showed was an INABILITY for two LabCorp employees to step up and correctly handle the situation that they played a huge role in allowing to take place. They LACKED: ETHICS, FOLLOWING PROTOCOL and SIMPLE PROFESSIONALISM. read more