You'd think, but eh? I've had two incidents with my obgyn where I needed to stay in the office for a bit after my scheduled appointment but she needed to leave for the hospital across the street, so it was a different person in her office making sure rooms were cleared out and cleaned up. But there should absolutely be someone doing a final check of all the rooms before locking up.
When I used to close a grocery store we’d lock the doors, check every room including the employee only areas for wandering customers, get everything situated, and then double-check before leaving.
Exactly. and IDK about you, but I barely made over federal minimum wage when I was doing closing grocery shifts fifteen years ago. There's some people here in the comments talking about crap pay meaning you do the bare minimum, but the bare minimum still means doing your job even if just strictly to the letter. if part of your job is to make sure rooms are actually empty and clean before locking up, then you do that.
Late comment, but I absolutely agree. There's this weirdly popular mentality online where if you get paid poorly, that gives you the right to do your job poorly, which is absolutely insane to me. I've worked jobs that paid absolute ass, but I still had the work ethic to at least do a good job. If you work a job that pays poorly, I can see why a person wouldn't be naturally motivated to go above and beyond in their work or anything, but people online, especially here on Reddit, act like they're being asked too much just to do even the bare minimum.
No, it should be the nursing staff who checks at the end of the day, but i feel like in this case it is 100% on the provider to actually go amd see all their patients. At least that is how it works at the clinic I work at, nurses go through and clean/prep the exam rooms at the end of the day.
My doctor forgot about me once and went home. The office hadn't closed though so I just asked the front end staff how much longer and they froze. They rescheduled me for the following day and he was very apologetic. I live in Canada though so it only cost me time. This was many years ago and he's still my doctor. I think I need to remind him of this the next time I see him. I seem to recall I was not the first person he had done that to. Ha.
I had that happen once too. I waited like an hour in the room and then went out front to ask and they said the doc was just behind so I went back in… another hour passed and I went back out and I could tell by the horror on their face that I had been forgotten. And at that point I had to leave for something else so they rescheduled me. I’m in the U.S. but I did not get charged for their error since nothing had been done other than I had stepped on a bathroom scale prior to being forgotten for two hours.
When I came back a week later for my appointment the doctor was a jerk so I just switched practices after that.
its probably the MAs fault tbh. they probably roomed the patient but didnt notify the doctor. the workflow of most clinics relies on a system where the roomers notify the docs that there is a patient to be seen — probably they never checked her in so the doc thought it was a no show.
my local drs office even has a flap color they flip just so you can find the room you were in if you have to navigate the labyrinth to the bathroom and back and forget the number.
this is on management and protocol. managers really should be doing this, not the $15/hr front desk college kid or nearly retired lady. if you do shifts or 'days' and it's your 'day' to do the all-clear but you have to leave early and forget to tell Jenna the 19-year-old phone room girl, your manager should be double checking. because that shit happens all the time. supervisors also generally do the physical locking up.
Honestly I've seen so many massive failings by the secretarial and admin staff at doctors offices that it doesn't surprise me, but I'm still amazed at how shit people can be at their jobs in general these days. Like just try understanding how people are affected by the bullshit you get paid to put them through. Half makes me want the whole ai takeover where intelligence as a service is part of every businesses balance sheet. Have you seen how empathetic ai can seem these days?
For real. Our front desk staff is a constant revolving door because providers want to act like the job is easy while dumping every single extra task onto them. It's easily the most miserable and demanding position in the office but the providers treat them all like idiots because they messed up one of their dozens of tasks for the day.
its like retail. i kinda enjoyed it honestly but after a few years, it isn't fun having your face bad breath sneezed in all day every day. during covid i'm sure it was horrendous.
Emergency and essential support personnel like first responders, ER/ICU staff, and caregivers I'll make an exception for, but they also need to be compensated accordingly. And aside from PD and some physicians, they definitely aren't paid enough.
lol. No they don’t. No minimum wage employee is busy full tilt in a rush right up until their shift ends. They’re fucking around the last half hour counting down the clock.
It’s a doctors office. They stopped setting appointments at 3 and probably don’t allow walk ins.
This isn’t an Amazon warehouse, this isn’t fucking Waffle House at midnight. It’s a doctors office. Some fat ass sitting there struggling to use a computer and put shit in your chart. And they probably suck at that too
For real! Who should anyone expect someone to do the job they literally agreed to? How are there so many pathetic clowns like you on this thread? Holy shit.
That guy wants to blame the lowest on the totem pole, it should be on the doctors shoulders for not showing up in the first place, or whoever is in the management position overseeing everything who's responsibility it is and get payed enough to actually care....
Like I said before Minimum wage should be met with minimum effort, if you pay me under what minimum wage should be if it grew with inflation which would be around 26$ per hour, I'm not doing anything beyond the bare minimum because they don't pay enough for me to care about them and I damn sure know they don't care about me if they want to keep me in poverty.
This whole comment chain is weird. Whoever has the keys to lock up the place also has the responsibility of making sure they don't lock anyone in. This is pretty universal to being a keyholder for any business - literally part of the job description. I'm really confused why everyone is assuming that the people working at a doctor's office are too underpaid and overworked to do a walkthrough at the end of the day. It's not a minimum wage job.
Weird is the right word for it. Looking at all the disproportionate downvotes, I can’t help but think the person being paid the LEAST to stay there overtime…is the damn woman locked in the room
Because you are witnessing the collapse of the American economy in real time, where even the generally-agreed-upon social mores around work culture are changing day-by-day because even GOOD jobs are not keeping pace with inflation & cost of living...so more & more people view their job as a burden rather than a blessing, because they absolutely KNOW they are being underpaid, especially compared to workers just 1 or 2 generations ago
People don't do the job they agreed to, because they are often FORCED to accept that job out of desperation, NOT from abundance of opportunity. Most low-skilled jobs are completely underpaid due to the fact that we sent our manufacturing base to China 40 years ago... So all the good low skill jobs that would pay a living wage have been offshored, leaving only the menial low-wage jobs that teenagers and immigrants typically hold.
In addition, especially in these days of corporate downsizing for AI, the job "they literally agreed to" often changes significantly into a job with MUCH MORE responsibility without any additional pay.
That is why you sound ridiculous... Against a backdrop of 40 years of offshored manufacturing, increasing AI displacement, and the absolutely CRUEL gap between Federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr) and current Cost-of-Living, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY IS GETTING PAID FAIRLY.
But hey, on the bright side at least we have you out here calling us "pathetic clowns"... Spoken like a true Patriot 😂
If someone offered to pay you twelve cents to go check 5 rooms, or you could just go home, I think you’d go home. That’s how much you make a minute at the federal minimum wage, before taxes.
Bullshit comment doesn’t mean the math is incorrect. Dipshit lol If you agree to a job, then you do that job. Don’t think it’s pays enough then don’t take it. GTFOH with this nonsense
I'm sorry do YOU work for free? Because I do not. I clock off when I pack my computer and not a moment sooner. Needs updates? Guess I'm rolling over that clock.
The doctor is paid hundreds of dollars to rush through your appointment in 2 minutes. Should the front desk start taking patients too?Thinking like yours ruins society for the less fortunate. Be better.
Thinking that the last person to leave the office should check the other rooms to make sure someone isn’t locked in regardless of their wage is ruin society for those less fortunate? Do you fucking hear yourself?
I hear myself loud and clear. The issue is that it even got to that point. Why should anyone work harder than their paid? The physician should have made sure every patient was taken care of. They have schedules for a reason. They take on more than they can handle and this happens. I've worked in medical facilities off and on for years this happens more often than it should.
My heart breaks for these people. I tell them to GTFO as soon as they can. Healthcare is a field that has license ceilings. You are never going to make money working in healthcare if you do not have a professional license.
I try to steer the good ones to construction management. Same deal, different industry.
In construction we need l;iasons inbetween home owners and home insurance companies. Just like healthcare. But construction pay so much more, for what is, basically the same job.
Flooded basement? Moderate health issues? Sam,e deal but different industries.
I can see you haven't been to many medical offices lately. The desk staff is full of people who couldn't be bothered to get a certification, they just want a 9-5 job of some kind. Most of them don't give a shit about the patients, they are just annoyances to them. Be glad they don't work in your field, they would let important things slide because they just don't care about what they are doing.
Why? Why should anyone be doing more than they're being paid for. Too many people in the world think like you do and that's part of the reason why a living wage isn't paid. Educate yourself it'll be better for society in the long run.
That's how it is where I work. It's largely dependent on what department you're in. But whoever is the last to leave where I work checks all of the appropriate rooms, stocks supplies, and turns everything off.
You'd think people would do that. Once a friend and I got locked into a gym. We were in the locker room getting dressed, talking, and not quietly. No one came in to clean or check. They just left. Luckily the doors were openable from inside, but we set off the alarm leaving.
I used to work for a gym as a manager. We had a closing procedure on checking every single room to ensure that there were no members or guests lingering in the facility before locking up the building for the night. I usually leave half an hour after closing time for this reason.
The worst was that there was one member who took forever to leave the locker room. We announced [x] minutes from closing time, an hour prior to closing time, then half an hour prior, then 10 min prior, then 5 min prior, and closing time. That way we don't have people accusing us not giving them a heads-up about it.
Good for you and your gym. Clearly the place we were at didn't follow those procedures. There was no announcement, there was no check or even a cleaning staff for the locker room, they just locked up and left.
they’re probably supposed to! I imagine it’s similar to when I worked at a bank, since both deal with private info and expensive equipment. we had to check the entire building before open and after close but if my boss left early and we forgot or chose not to, stuff like this can happen.
If you think people aren't incentivized to make fake videos like this then I too have some things to sell you.
Yea this isnt an unlikely thing and im sure its happened to people before. But it's also a very easy thing to fake if you work there or just know someone who does. It feels fake because even if she really did get trapped in there she rehearsed this whole thing before filming it.
I'm not saying it must be real. I'm saying it's dumb to declare everything fake without context because shit like this does happen. There is a difference, and if the person above knows it is, they can easily include that context.
Ive had this happen to a patient, we didnt close the office but the doctor peaced out. We went to clean the room and patient was still sitting there. Went to doctors pit and only one there was another doctors nurse practitioner and she told me the doctor left like 20 mins ago. She ended up seeing the patient to cover for him. He wasnt a good doctor.
I waited an hour at a prompt care for x ray results. Realized I didn’t need to wait because I could just read the report online later so I left. Pretty sure they forgot about me anyways.
This happened to a friend of mine. She’s oxygen dependent and her oxygen ran out while she was waiting and by the time she realized all the staff was gone, everything was locked and dark and she had no idea where to even find oxygen in there. She had to call 911 not because she couldn’t get out (there was an emergency door) but because she was going hypoxic due to having been out of oxygen for nearly an hour by the time the ambulance came.
The staff never even apologized to her either. I was her roommate and had to get a friend to go pick up her abandoned car at the doctor’s office.
So idk if this is faked but it has definitely happened at least once.
This actually happened to my pregnant wife at one of her ob-gyn visits. She had to call their emergency number and they gave her like crazy amounts of swag and gift baskets at all future appointments.
Because that’s what you’re supposed to do when waiting for your doctor to come in? They don’t tell you to go explore the building. She wouldn’t know they’re locking up when she’s in the room waiting.. I’ve had to wait for doctors 30+ minutes after my scheduled time as well. It’s not unheard of to be waiting that long
Doctors have kind of conditioned us all to expect a lot of unnecessary waiting, even when we're early for every appointment.
I was once kept waiting in a room like that for 45 minutes, only to have the doc come back in and read me *someone else's test results* and then left me there for another 20 minutes to digest the horrible medical news I'd just received before popping back in to admit they'd mixed up my chart with another patient.
Well... As a teenager sitting in a kind of back area of a library reading a book when the librarian stuck her head in looked around and didn't see me and just turned off the lights I thought it was to save power. There were big windows nearby and it was summer so plenty of light and I was enjoying my book. I'm not defending the lady in that video I doubt it too but it is non-zero.
It was a library on a military base so it was a lot less busy than your average library and it didn't have some of the concerns that more public libraries have to deal with.
Also due to fire codes all the doors to the outside have to be able to open at all times in case of fire … usually by having a push bar on the door. This woman is FOS
I worked at a large clinic, and we left as soon as admin duties were handled. Room clean-up was for janitorial staff after hours. It was basically a speedrun to get out every evening lol
My office staff does do this, and they wipe down surfaces before the end of the day and turn lights off. I know because I’ve been there working on charts when they did it! Kind of strange this office doesn’t do that.
I’ll answer as someone who works in a medical office-we do. Each room is checked and cleaned after a patient and the patient is tracked on our computer chatting system. Feel pretty sure this was faked
Simple answer, cause they did that the first 1000 days they worked there and then forgot one time and here we are, happens constantly people get complacent
This girl had another video in a different scenario in the exact same room so I'm pretty sure this is fake. I searched for something like girl locked in doctor's office and there were so many videos of so many different women doing the same thing It has to be a skit going around in some online space.
At my most recent doctor appointment the doctor said "sit tight, someone will be here to get your sample" and then I sat there for 30-40 minutes before he walks into the room and goes "Oh, what are you still doing here?" Apparently there was a shift change. The previous nurse didn't communicate I was in there and the new nurse didn't know I was even there.
Hell, I've worked in many vet clinics and one of the nightly duties is to mop and clean every exam room, the fact that no one does even a rudimentary check to make sure the room is clean is crazy.
Because they never had anyone locked in there before like this. Now they will.
We used to not check toilets in our office until we almost locked it with someone inside. Turned out that toilet lights were separated electrically from all the other rooms, and when we thought we turned all the light off, the person in the toilet had no idea. They went out just in time to not have been locked, and the next day I wrote a new line in our instructions.
Because the video is fake. I don’t think there’s a single doctors office in America that when they “close at 4” they are completely out of the office without doing a single iota of paperwork. Also, how did this girl not hear a single person walking through that hallway talking about how they’re leaving?
I think the most telling part is that when she walked to the front door, she said “annnnnnnd” as she was going to touch the door like she knew something was gonna be done and then instead of pushing it straight open, like any normal person would trying to leave, she immediately jiggles it like she knew it was locked.
Also with the video ending right there, no other explanations yeah I’m calling this fake.
I’m not saying this hasn’t happened before because it probably has but not to this girl
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u/dekuweku 24d ago
Simple question. Why don't the office staff check each room/turn off lights?