A Florida medical assistant’s workplace argument with a receptionist has gone viral after the two clashed over a scheduling mix-up. The creator said she’d already messaged about the appointment. The receptionist argued she should have gotten up and told her in person.
Posted to TikTok by @redheadtay3, the video captures the two women going back and forth over an appointment added to the schedule. The receptionist says she wasn’t told about it. The creator insists she was.
The disagreement escalates when the receptionist tells the creator she could have simply gotten up and walked over to her.”Who get up?” the creator asks. “Girl, I’m not getting up for nothing.”
The receptionist holds her ground. Communicating means telling her directly. The creator says she did that already. She’d messaged her the day before that the appointment was tentative. The receptionist claims she wasn’t in that day, which only leads the creator to ask whether she checks the schedule at all.
“I just need you to do it better,” the receptionist says. The creator fires back that she’s the one who needs to communicate better. She’s the one who never responded to the message.
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The receptionist’s insistence that the Florida medical assistant should have gotten up and communicated the change in person had commenters stunned by the audacity. “get up??!!! GIRL ‘I ain’t yo slave,’” one commenter wrote.
Another argued that checking messages and the schedule was the receptionist’s responsibility. “No one is her personal assistant it’s her responsibility to check her messages,” they wrote.
Others focused on what they considered the simplest definition of communication. “Communicating is i sent a message,” one person wrote. Another took it a step further, arguing that the receptionist was the one misunderstanding the word: “Communication would responding to someone’s message or taking accountability for missing it.”
But the creator didn’t get unanimous support. One commenter argued that she should have followed up after receiving no response.
Another offered a more neutral interpretation, suggesting the creator could have mentioned the message when she saw the receptionist in person. “Nobody’s wrong it’s a misunderstanding,” they wrote.
The video also drew criticism for a different reason. One commenter questioned why the creator had posted the footage with the workplace schedule visible.
Work gets frustrating when responsibilities overlap and coworkers start having different ideas about who should be doing what. And there’s nothing like having someone you work with start telling you how to do your job.
