I work at a large trauma hospital in a city of about 1 million people. I worked nights until 1 month ago and always parked in the hospital garage adjacent to the hospital. They take money out of my check every month to pay for the parking garage and my badge gets me in and out. The only way your badge will work to get you out is if you badged in. This makes it so that staff won't let other people out of the garage without paying.
Skip to day shift...The parking garage installed a second set of gates on the 6th level so that only employees can park on level 6 and above. These gates were installed about two months before I went to day shiftl. For the past month I have been parking in the employee section during my day shift with no problems...UNTIL TODAY!!!
As I tried to leave my badge would not let me out of the employee level. I got on my cell phone and called the parking office to let me out. After an HOUR of sitting in the garage I got out of my car and walked down to the parking office. There I was informed that I could no longer park in the garage unless I had been an employee for 15 years or I worked in the housekeeping department. COULD THEY NOT HAVE TOLD ME THIS BEFORE I BADGED INTO THE GARAGE AND WORKED 9 HOURS.
Needless to say I was informed that I must now start parking at an offsite parking lot for employees and take a shuttle to the hospital. I probably wouldn't have a problem with this, but the parking lot is in one of the worst areas in the city. There is no security for the employees walking to and from their cars and no one there with the cars during the day. My hubby is a police officer who works that area and is EXTREMELY upset about this. I pulled the crime stats from that area and there have been numerous armed robberies, sexual assaults, burglary of vehicles and even two HOMICIDES. All within ONE block of our parking lot. I get to work at 5:00 am and there is very little light in the parking area. What do you think? My clinical manager says that no one has had any trouble....YET.
