AnonymousBy an edhat reader
My spouse works for Cottage Hospital. I’m sure everyone has seen the little white stickers on bumpers around town that serve as parking permits – these allow you to park in the Cottage parking lots. Cottage has for years allowed these permits to be placed on the employee’s bumper, or otherwise be visible to security – many people who don’t want their employer broadcast on their vehicle day to day place their sticker on their dash or rear window to accomplish this. Either way, employees swipe into an employee only lot with an RF badge – so it is a relatively secure place.
Cottage security employees have begun booting vehicles that don’t have the permit permanently affixed to their vehicle, seemingly arbitrarily, with no change broadcasted to the standard operating procedure of the past. Nurses have left 12 hour shifts taking care of COVID patients to find their vehicle immobilized. If you walk through the lot, probably 10% of vehicles don’t have the stickers affixed, including some really nice vehicles driven by top level administrators.
Personally, I am very proud to display my Cottage Permit.
So I wrote this post. To clear one thing up, I did not write the title. I never wrote the word “tow” or “towing” in my submission and I can prove that.
Another thing, I never said my spouse had their vehicle booted. My spouse did not have their vehicle booted. Have vehicles been booted? Yes. And to be clear, I am talking about the employee lot not open to the public. RF badge needed to enter, and Cottage has each vehicle’s license plate registered to a particular employee. Also, I am not hating on Security staff, they are simply doing as instructed.
The whole point of my post seems clear to me from the second paragraph, but let me try again. Maybe you’re on your 3rd straight 12 hour shift on a floor where your ratio is 4 or 5-1 and you forgot to hang your permit at 6:45 AM on your way into work. Maybe this has happened 3 times in your 8 years of working at the hospital. Worth being booted? If you think “yes” then you weren’t the person I was writing to in the first place. My point was this – is booting a nurse’s vehicle in this horribly stress filled time for our heroic nurses something Cottage should feel proud about doing?
This is why Edhat is great. This is the point of community postings like this. Now 1500 people have read this, maybe it will save the next nurse who forgot to hang their permit from the experience of being booted for an honest mistake when all they want is to get home before their kids are in bed.
I don’t get the issue with displaying the Cottage sticker in the proper place. I was proud to have it affixed to my car when I worked there. What gives?
Because some people prefer privacy.