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Neither one really would stand up for our department. Weirdest thing to happen was a patients family bought a telephone and had a line installed. The line nor the phone was our responsibility. The family decided for some reason to take out the phone a day later and thought they threw away the box and receipt in the trash can in her room.

The son goes to the administrator. Rather than simply saying like a man that is your responsibility he brings the man and the issue down to our shop because maintenance for some insane reason was also the ones who took out garbage off the floors rather than housekeeping department. My co-worker and I stepped out of the shop and went outside figuring our boss could handle it.

We stood there a minute thinking what if they come out and want one of us to check the dumpsters?. The dumpsters were full of medical waste. We had decided we were going to simply flat out refuse to do it and take whatever happened. We weren't paid that great for our skills anyway.

After about 20 minutes our boss walks out madder than a hornet and the patients son leaves the building. Boss was mad at the administrator and son and told us there wasn't no pleasing him. he then said I offered to go outside and look in the dumpsters. Boss was a USMCR Gunny. You'd think he wouldn't take no stuff but he was too programed to follow and not question orders. That caused us a lot of grief as we got shafted many times with other departments jobs they didn't want. We were Boiler Operators, HVAC mechanics, electricians, plumbers, jack of all trades, all rolled into one. You just don't find that kind of worker anywhere.