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……………………behind the backs of your pets do your own dirty work, carry your own weight, you have called us gutless and cowards but where are your balls to do your own dirty work but instead you let your pets to do all the dirty work and harass staff. (Cheers to NPT)
And here is why we are forced to make the above nasty comment. Because an NPT staff went to some staff’s Facebook account and harass them, he also told them that if people do not like NPT to piss off and let this poor company alone. What makes us angry is that, some staff (we call them pets) are allowed to go on other staff’s social accounts and harass them but if it happens the other way around then NPT straight away is going to discipline the staff that attacked their pet. That proves NPT cares only for the welfare of their pets.
NPT………… before you start sending intimidating emails to staff about posting comments about their rights, you should first fix your dirty laundry and discipline all your pets that have been using the net to harass, humiliate, belittle and bully staff and also take legal action against the staff that made threats of physical harm to other staff instead of looking after them (everything is been screen captioned for raining days; as back as 2009), as we already said you should first try to fix the problem with your pet staff because some other staff might also think if one of your pet staff can call his work college “tards” then other staff might think it is ok to call the CEO Jeff Wilson a “Tard” too.
Below are some of the comments Brett Potter left in some staff’s facebook wall. (7/2/2014)
1. Brett Potter: And vital we don’t jeopardize patients health and needs for transport!!
Is Brett Potter accusing staff that because they are fighting for their rights they are jeopardizing the patients’ health? Is that an official legal accusation against the staff that wish to take part in the industrial action next Tuesday? Or does Brett Potter has evidence against specific staff that purposely will jeopardise patients health?
2. Brett Potter: Haven’t taken any1’s side just know I have to get my job done somehow.
You have to do your Job? Then why do not shut your mouth and go and do your job as your job has nothing to do with the rights and entitlements of the road crew (why you do not tell us first your hourly pay before you tell us what is right or not) if you are not part of the road crew if your rights are totally different as a dispatcher and you are not an executive manager then why you open your mouth and harass staff? There is not even an inch of what we do or what you do between our positions but you tell us “somehow the job has to be done” Do your job and we do our job.
3. Brett Potter: I understand that but there are other ways surely to go about it without compromising pt care and refusing to do sooo many things.
OK we agree with this, after all he said something right. Here some ideas while on dispute with EBA: do not step in to the branch a minute before starting time of your shift; Do not pick your phone while off work, if NPT calls you on private number, and you answer tell them off; if NPT has something very important they can sms us; Do not pick any extra shifts; if a job takes you over your finishing time more than 15minutes refuse the job; always try to have your meal break half way refuse to take your meal too early or too late and if you end up taking your break too late call the union to call to get your magic number as we are not going to be getting harass from management; about double loads have to involve worksafe, union and any other organization to stop something that is not fair and safe to the crew and to most of the patients; and the causal staff if they are not here to get a quick buck then they should refuse to do shifts if NPT does not give them at least 24 hrs notice and this is something that has to go to EBA that NPT cannot target a casual staff for refusing to do a shift with not enough notice. We believe these types of actions might be better than not doing the paper work for example if because the paperwork is missing NPT does not get paid for that job why should we then get paid if this is the case and if there is no paper work what about the records of what happened when we transport the patient? The above ideas are some of our basic rights that we can refuse to do while there is a dispute. (the above ideas are our own opinions and we only mention them and we are not telling other staff to follow)
4. Brett Potter: With refusal to double load u r making them wait extra long and possibly missing important appt’s.
This practice has to stop (that is why we said, we need to involve worksafe and other organisations even the media), here some stories of double load and we bet we can collect hundred stories like that….”double load St Vincent hospital to St George Hospital, one male, one female with daughter escort, driving to St George Hospital in a peek traffic, male patient wants to urinate, male claims he wants to piss straight away, ambulance has to stop in clearway, in the traffic, patient wants to stand up to urinate, patient stands up facing old women and starts pissing in bottle on top of old lady on the next stretcher, daughter not very happy, daughter gets angry for the double load, crew had to deal with this while Brett Potter receives bonus for dispatching double load. What about the times that we were forced to do double load on two monitored patients?
Bottom line; there is no way we should be doing double loads because of the safety and privacy of all parties involved. Safety; we pick two patients to take them to two different hospitals. Part of our work instructions…. we are not allowed and we should never leave a patient alone in ambulance bay while taking first patient to the fist destination and we should never leave one of the crews in the ambulance while the other crew takes the other patient upstairs due to worksafe requirements. So what do we do? Take both stretchers up stairs? But we thought that two staff should always be there to operate one stretcher through the corridors of the hospital and what about the privacy of the other staff going through a hospital that they are not supposed to be?
If Brett Potter or any other person can say, they are happy (then we are happy too)if their mother was sick at her worse time of her life and while on the ambulance have some old dude pissing on top of her head inside a urinal bottle while stopped at the side of the street and then when the crew gets at the first destination have the old lady pushed from the ambulance bay to the fourth floor of the hospital and then back to the ambulance bay to go to her destination then we can say we are happy too but does it matter if it is an old grandmother or is it? nobody likes it while they are feeling sick to been seen by strangers but we (NPT staff) keep shoving them inside an ambulance with other sick patients and take them through a tour inside hospitals and what about the times when we picked one patient then we went to pick the second patient and we were told the second patient was not ready and we had to wait 10-30 minutes? Or what about when we go to drop first patient but some times we are delayed up to half an hour to unload the first patient while second patient is stack in a hospital that they should have never been there in the first place? Did NPT ever ask how the other patient felt while some events did not go as were planned? Did NPT ever ask us what we had to put up with? We always are the ones that receive all the abuse because patient or family are not happy with the double loads but still we have to keep are smiles up while Brett and NPT get their bonuses for pushing us to do the double loads.
Said that does not mean all double loads are not suitable, you should never refuse to assess the suitability of double loads but once you go to the ward and talk to a nurse and say “I can’t take your patient because I can’t double load” you should forget what NPT is going to say because the abuse you might get from the nurse is worse than what you might get from the dispatcher or your manager. (Do we get paid enough to go through all these?)
Some of the double loads we should never refuse if they are suitable even while we are on industrial action are patients that are going to dialysis, back home or other important medical appointments . Not matter what are our issues with NPT some things we have to always try to do the right thing.
5. Brett Potter: I Would love to write an essay Pam and Nicole. Pam double loads to different destinations I understand but from same place to the same place is the thing to do unlike some stupid crew who actually refused for some ungodly reason?!?!
Brett, are you claiming that you never dispatched or forced/pushed/ staff to do double loads with different locations? Or do you deny through your years with NPT that you never reported staff to management for refusing to do a double load with different destinations? Or do you claim you never abused (the way you talked to the crew staff or making unfair reports against them) for refusing to do a double load with different destination? and yes there might be some stupid crew out there as you claim but whose fault is that? Can it be the fault of the CEO, CFO, HRM for letting one of their managers target staff based on his personal motives while turning a blind eye to staff that are doing the wrong thing?
6. Brett Potter: Oh and I have seen plenty of management staff go out in desperate means on the road unlike the lazy fuckers who left and went to that other company and said oh no I’m busy yet are now seen on the road lots of times.
Honestly Brett? You are calling the crew that left NPT “lazy fuckers”? Did you forget who Peter Cormick was to you? Do you remember the conflict of interest between you and Peter Cormick and because of that, many people were too scared to complain against you? If you want to talk about any “lazy fuckers” talk about the managers that left NPT to go to St. John Ambulance before you talk about staff’s personal decisions. If an executive manager, his only loyalty is how to get paid better and ready to sell himself to the competitor then why are you calling crew that left NPT “lazy fuckers”? Like Jeff Wilson? He could sent intimidating emails to staff trying to spread fear so staff not leave NPT and go and work for a competitor at a time that he was unable to stop one of his managers going to St John Ambulance.
7. Brett Potter: I took the time to read it (bcos I care) just no time to go into every point I have a life outside work. If you people want to see the BEST NEPT company that has ever existed leave the industry then move on to greener pastures. Weren’t u a G4S employee ask urslf why did u leave them like many have b4 u??
There is no winning with you Brett one minute you call the crew that left NPT “lazy fuckers” and the next minute you tell people if you do not like NPT “move on to greener pastures”. It is so funny, the staff that keep benefit, tell the rest of us to piss off, and Brett you might have life outside NPT because your pay is better than ours and you have better things to do with the money you earn while most of us fighting for a fair pay and better working conditions “a workplace with no conflicts of interest and managers that are not bias due to family connections or because of private motives” and if the company want us out (they can do their own dirty work and not let their pets do their dirty work of telling us to piss off and then if we do leave the company we get called names for leaving)all NPT has to do is to tell the stuff if conflict of interest is acceptable or not with the company and if not why NPT failed in their duty of care to protect us from all these conflicts that existed for years and if conflict of interest is acceptable in NPT why is NPT so scared to admit it?
Brett Potter, if you have a bit of dignity in you, you should apologise for your comments to all the NPT staff and to the crew you called “lazy fuckers” but if your job description is similar to the high up management that no matter what, you always have to push the interest of the company then you are excused. Our understanding…….. your position, your pay and work conditions have nothing to do with our EBA conditions and our road working conditions but why you unleashed these personal attacks on all the crews that try to fight for their rights? It is not your fight, Why you caused that personal attack on the road crew? Our demands for better working conditions are causing a conflict of interest with your employment? or you hope by attacking staff the company will still keep you in the good books even after Peter C. left?
People can say very hurtful comments against other people but do not start personal fights with matters that do not involve you.
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I wonder if NPT is going to call DHS on me for this comment. For years I have been living in fear (and I know many other staff have too) for speaking up about things, that I believe NPT have only acted on because they are only interested in the profits and not for their patients or staff wellbeing.
Below is a case I did one day on a stretcher car that I strongly believe was an abuse to the patient’s liberty. His dignity, privacy and wellbeing were all overlooked in the hunt of more profit.
A few years ago on a private shift we were given a return job, picking up from Sunbury too Monash Medical Centre Clayton for a follow up appointment (patient used to live on that side but recently was moved to Sunbury) once the patient finished their appointment and was ready for the return trip we were told to double load with a patient that was coming out of the hospital and going around the corner. We double loaded and once we cleared the first destination and before we were allowed to proceed to Sunbury with our original patient, we were told again that there was one more job around in the area that was going to St Kilda and from there we can continue with our original job. But once again as we cleared the job at St Kilda we were told that NPT just received a job that was also going back to Sunbury, coming out of John Fawkner Private Hospital, by this state NPT still did not care about the patient or us for been placed in a difficult position having to unload and load the patient several times. NPT’s only excuse was if we do not double load then some poor patient is going to wait extra-long to be picked by another ambulance.
As we had no other choice we continued with the third double load but in an unfortunate event the ambulance broke down not far from John Fawkner. A logic person would think NPT would try to send another ambulance to pick the patient up while we were waiting for another ambulance to continue with our shift but what does NPT do? They make us wait in the middle of the road with the patient for another ambulance to come all the way from Mt Waverley so we can continue our trip to John Fawkner and pick the other patient up and then drive to Sunbury.
That day in our eyes it was a case of patient abuse because the patient spent around six hours on the road with us all because of the double load greed. What about us? We were forced to unload and load the patient at every destination and also we were placed in a difficult position , making up lies to the carers as why the patient was with us all that time (I do not think anybody is going to like something like this happening to them or their family). In my opinion, if you work for NPT or you are a patient and your path crosses between their profits then you are a ZERO priority to them as a single dollar is more important.
In life, fighting against unreasonable greed is one of the hardest things you will ever experience.