r/Glasgow Tools

Bank staff are being told that we can't get access to staff only areas until we have our manager sign off on it - we then have to bring that form to a specific office between the hours of 9am and 1pm. However we are also being told we don't HAVE a specific manager cos we're not assigned to a specific ward. So no one considers themselves able to do the form. So we don't get access.

'quirk of design' does just seem like a nice way of saying 'design flaw'. Which seems to affect a lot more rooms than you think. I was trying to figure out if it was because of which side the rooms were all on but the place is so disorientating it's hard to tell.

I ask where clocks are and am told 'no idea'. They're not something that anyone's keeping behind the nurse's station or hidden in a store. More likely they've broken or been taken down for replacement batteries or something at various points and never been replaced. And then no one notices cos these things aren't checked?

Repairs on TVs etc do seem to be reported but they don't seem to be anyone's priority. Especially as some of the problems seem to be expected - like how channels are in the wrong order.

I can guarantee not every ward has a water cooler. Unless they're invisible. I have definitely not missed seeing them as I have been in the kitchens and I have looked at the empty space where I was sure they should be and asked 'where's the water cooler gone?'. There are a few wards I've seen that do have them but I'm also seeing wards that don't.

And the ground floor rooms without TVs - well it's just wildly optimistic to say these are short stay rooms - I've been in there and met patients who've been there for days. With no tv, no radio, no visitors, no books or magazines.

The rooms are so bleak already - and when I say they're bleak I'm not suggesting we fill them with nickknacks and furniture that will be difficult to clean and get in the way - I'm just surprised that there's nowhere to put photos painted the walls a nice colour or SOMETHING.