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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Milled_Oats on 2025-04-27 22:37:15+00:00.
Years ago I was a union delegate for a hospital that underwent expansion. More services , more beds, an extra operating theatre etc. before the expansion opened the usual fight between the unions and management started over staffing.
We went in really well prepared and management took it well offering staffing we wanted. We had a final meeting with about 40 people In the room, HR , department heads and the various unions. We get to a department I will call ABC and the department head say we don’t need any extra staff except for nurses. I argued you have more space and more beds and you need more cleaners , wardsmen admin staff etc.
He fires back “ I stake my reputation on it that we don’t need any extra staff”. I ask the minutes record this specifically. A meeting is set down for four weeks after the hospital expansion opening. We let him have his way knowing he wouldn’t be successful.
Guess whose department turned into a complete farce? Nothing terrible just lots of little issue. At the next union meeting again with all people Previously present I read out the list of issues department ABC has. I then read out the last minutes with him stating they didn’t need any extra staffing and that the department head had staked his reputation on it. I then asked the head of ABC to justify all of this. He couldn’t.
I asked him as he staked his reputation on this and the outcomes have been poor , what does that mean? He gave no answer. I look towards the CEO and said you were here last time and buck stops with you. He agreed to review the situation urgently.
The union placed the hospital into formal industrial dispute at the meeting over the lack of staffing in department ABC.
The next day the CEO sends out an email stating after a brief conversation with the head of department ABC, he has chosen to seek different career opportunities.