Carol Mulhern - Case 10-5411 Veterans Administration

About the Author

I, Carol Mulhern was a single mother of 2 girls when I started working at the Coatesville VAMC June1990. I come from a family of six, born in Philadelphia, later moved to other suburban communities at a young age of 10. I married pre-maturely at the age of 19, separated and divorced after 7 years. My ex-husband was into drugs, alcohol and whatever he could get his hands on to get high. He was abusive to me as well as to my 2 daughters Amy and Kim. My married name was Carol Talley and I kept this name until later years when my 2 daughters, Kim and Amy became adults. My name was Carol Talley for a good part of my career at the Coatesville VA medical center. I went back to my maiden name Carol Mulhern, several years ago. I am a high school graduate with additional vocational data entry training as well as receiving VA government and other literary training at various libraries.

This biography demonstrates myself working at the Veterans Administration trying get ahead in my career while FHAS managers are untruthful, harassing, discriminatory and in violation of the law.

I have always maintained a professional, honest and friendly manner to all veterans, VA staff and public. I am appreciative to have the opportunity to work at the VA medical center and always want to have great job performances and opportunities. Veterans do come first but for some VA managers their pay check comes first, not the veterans.

While this biography indicates less than detailed information of me working from June1990 as a file clerk to medical support assistant supervisor in 2005, relationships with Financial Health Administrative Management Service became embroiled with harassment, deceit and malicious actions in 2003 to 2005.

Most businesses and government agencies like to believe they are immune from deceptive practices, but they are not. People are very clever accomplishing fraud and deceptive practices for various reasons. We as honest diplomatic trustworthy people develop great relationships and do not want to believe someone we initially like and trust may have a selfish discriminatory ulterior motive towards us at work. These deceptive people are more than likely only interested in whats good for them and not what is good for business or government work. As the book illustrates there are more deceitful people at the work place then we choose to believe. I found some VA officials are good at holding the illusion of being loyal good managers without their malicious behaviors ever questioned.

This story speaks and shows my experience working with VA managers that want to get ahead in their careers at their co-workers, clients and agencys expense. Unfortunately, some of these people do get away with it. Throwing other colleagues under the bus can be a regular sport for some.

Additionally this book shows how some management officials deprive veterans of their benefits.

ISBN 978-1-63575-670-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63575-671-5 (Digital)

Copyright 2017 by Carol Mulhern

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Preface

This story is a true case at the Philadelphia Eastern District Court. Some of the names have been changed.

I currently work at the VA under a more peaceful environment. This memoir demonstrates myself working at the Veterans Administration trying to get ahead in my career, while FHAS managers were untruthful, harassing, discriminatory, and in violation of the law.

I have always maintained a professional, honest, and friendly manner to all veterans, VA staff, and public. I am appreciative to have the opportunity to work at the VA medical center and always want to have great job performances and opportunities. Veterans do come first, but for some VA managers, their paycheck comes first, not the veterans.

While this biography indicates less than detailed information of me working from June 1990 as a file clerk to medical support assistant supervisor in 2005, relationships with Financial Health Administrative Management Service became embroiled with harassment, deceit, and malicious actions in 2003 to 2005.

Most businesses and government agencies like to believe they are immune from deceptive practices, but they are not. People are very clever accomplishing fraud and deceptive practices for various reasons. We as honest, diplomatic, trustworthy people develop great relationships and do not want to believe someone we initially like and trust may have a selfish discriminatory ulterior motive toward us at work. These deceptive people are more than likely only interested in whats good for them and not what is good for business or government work. As the book illustrates, there are more deceitful people at the workplace than we choose to believe. I found some VA officials are good at holding the illusion of being loyal, good managers without their malicious behaviors ever questioned.

This story speaks and shows my experience working with VA managers that want to get ahead in their careers at veterans, coworkers, clients, and agencys expense. Unfortunately, some of these people get away with it. Throwing other colleagues under the bus can be a regular sport for some.

June1990, I was a single mother of two young girls when I became employed at the Coatesville VAMC. Amy Talley is my oldest daughter, and Kimberly Talley is my youngest daughter. My ex-husband was into alcohol, drugs, anything he could get his hands on to get a buzz or high.

He was also very abusive. He didnt really spend time as a familyhe was too busy running around at night, doing drugs, picking up whores, drinking, and God knows other bad things. He behaved with little or no manners. He was always excessively cursing and yelling. I admit, when I married him, I was a young age of nineteen and did not know him too well. He also did well keeping his drug abuse and excessive cursing under wraps until after we were married. I dont want to go in further details of how that very sad story went, but I will end by saying I divorced him in 1988. My current name at this time was Carol Talley. I kept my married name until my children became adults, then I went back to by maiden name Carol Mulhern.

My girls and I lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Coatesville, Pennsylvania , which was very nice. I was then thirty-two years old. My ambition was to work hard, build better self-esteem so I could be a better person and provider for my daughters.

The Coatesville Veterans Medical Center is centered on top of a hill located off of Blackhorse Hill Road, Coatesville, Pennsylvania. I was employed as a file clerk in the medical records department, working with three other employees, two men and one younger female. This job kept me very busy filing, answering phones pulling outpatient records for veteran clinic appointments, and making copies of veterans records per their release of information request. During this time you were able to smoke in the buildings and the supervisor at the time was Joe who chained smoked. His office was adjacent to where we the file clerks worked. Every now and then, he would come in to see what we were all doing and give us additional work requested from other department areas. Most the time you would see him doing paperwork and smoking.