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I do understand the reasoning behind not having clocks in the waiting rooms, more because they are always wrong and if they are off by 2 minutes patients start getting angry about being seen late…..but we could really use more clocks around the clinic in the hallways and open areas people mill around in waiting between appointments. Not everyone has a cellphone, and the clinic really drains your battery life so half of their phones are probably dead by midafternoon anyway.

This doesn't answer the question, which asks about how often the equipment is serviced, not cleaned. How often is the equipment in the lactation rooms serviced/changed out? I wonder if the pumps are being overused and are therefore not as effective for expressing breast milk. Environmental Services is responsible for daily cleaning of breast pumps in lactation rooms at all sites. Cleaning in-between uses is the responsibility of individual users. Learn more about lactation rooms, resources and policies.

Please don't start questioning the PTO awards we have in Rochester as unfair… the last times this questioning occurred we lost out STD benefit of 16 hours, and then lost our ability to wear jeans on second shift in the labs…

A few yrs back Mayo EC employees lost our straight night bonus because they said Rochester did not have it. I wonder why its ok for you to keep valued benefits we don't have the opportunity to enjoy but ours was taken away due to your facility not having it? Honest question.

Life isn't fair. RST may have some benefits that other sites don't have; we invite other to tell us about their parking privileges… I appreciate the effort to synchronize things across the institution – but I really do agree with the answer: There is something to be said for each locations culture and heritage.

Many years ago I was waiting Waiting Waiting….before cell phones gang. Ended up calling a friend while waiting in the doctors office….I had been waiting 2 hours for a scheduled apt!!! Came to find out my doctor was on a plane returning from Hawaii!!! This was a RTW after surgery appt. or I would have walked out….Ha I might understand but…

I understand your logic in not having clocks, but many elderly people perceive time as passing much faster than it is…therefore if there are no clocks to tell them they are only 5 minutes past their appointment times to them it feels like hours and this is ourwardly how they communicate it to others.

The band Rush had a song called "The Trees" that illustrates standardization perfectly: "So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights 'The oaks are just too greedy We will make them give us light' Now there's no more oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, Axe, And saw"

Here in Menomonie we have lost a lot because other sites didn't have the same little perks. But if we are to be aligned then it should be all or none. We have had our being on call time cut in half because other sites are being paid differently. Aren't all employees valued the same no matter where they work.

The problem is that, recently, "all or nothing" has meant "nothing." Rather than take things away to make sites equal, it would be nice if they would provide benefits to everyone instead.

Actually, since the elderly perceive time passing more quickly, a 5 minute wait to them shouldn't be anywhere near as big of a deal as it is to, say, a two year old.

As stated in the answer, you're never going to have perfect alignment across all the various Mayo sites. However, the chances of benefits being added to any site are basically zero. So when you complain that another site, or department has something and you don't, its never going to help you in any way. The "best" case scenario is that you drag the people at that site down. Chances are, you enjoy something that they don't and don't even realize it.

Agreed

My comment is in response to the question on Mayo’s emphasis on a four-year degree. In the second paragraph it says “…the experience one gains by working at Mayo Clinic is immensely valued by the organization” is only valued if you meet the minimum educational requirements. HR never reviews the experience portion if you do not meet the minimum educational requirement. This is a disservice to the more “mature” employees who began their employment at Mayo meeting the minimum educational requirements at that time and now have the immensely valued experience. I once applied for a job submitting grants thinking my 25+ years of submitting program project grants, RO1s, training grants, etc., as well as 10+ years of teaching grant classes would substitute for my lack of a bachelor’s degree. When my application was rejected my inquiry revealed my experience would have been relevant if I had a degree – even if the degree was in acrylic painting (still have the email containing that response). So for those hoping for a transfer, get a degree – any degree.

This happened to me also. I was roomed to see the doctor. I sat there for two hours. I finally got up and went to find out what was going on, and where was the doctor. They could not find her. Needless to say, I walked out and never went back. Never had a follow up from surgery to this day.