[FixitGuy]

Whaddaya bet the door safety switch had been malfunctioning for some time and nobody said anything about it.

Amazing the tragedies caused by simple lack of attention to maintenance.

("Ya know...somebody oughta fix that"!)

[FITZ]

Sometimes maintenance is a cost area the hospital cuts first --- things the patient and visitor don't see. If they go for the cheapest worker, they might get someone who doesn't read or even speak English.

[neb52]

I know what you mean. when I go up on the floors to look at computer problems for the Tech Support Group at night. A lot of the problems had been occuring for weeks, but nobody felt like calling the problem in. But then our help desk is pretty bad, so its kind of like a deterrent, the nurses would rather live with the problem than call the help desk.

Problem is when you get low morale and poor training, then little mistakes occur and then they turn into big mistakes. Which only increases lawsuits and greater distrust between employee and management. The only reason we don't have anymore problems then we do know. Is strictly due to the lowly grunts(nurses and other administrative staff)taking some pride in their work. But you have those bad days, maybe you got some scathing email from some manager you have never meet, about something you have no earthly idea what they're talking about. It just ruins your day. We get a lot of these emails from executive or manager about everyday. We call them the unilateral premptive a$$ chewings. Its like the managers know somebody is going to screw up, so they send out an email to help keep it from happening.