Another hospital visitor told me today of something he witnessed recently.
He works in the building trade himself. He was visiting an older relative and stayed 4 hours. He said there was an NHS maintenance man looking at a small hole in an interior wall. He had all his gear with him including a tub of filler. He put a barricade around his work area, put a sign up, did a lot of looking at it. Went off for a break. Had a chat to everybody who passed by. After 4 hrs he finally put some filler in the hole!
The visitor had a few words with him and they talked about various sites they had worked on. The NHS guy said “This job is a doddle. Best one ever. Nobody on your case, take as long as you like.” The visitor said that was a 15 minute job maximum!
There is an out of order toilet on my husband’s bay. The loo was leaking and they had to remove it and take up all the flooring. 10 days so far and it’s still not useable because “someone ordered the wrong loo.”
This is just one hospital. 😥
