He says, "Yeah we know, it was called in yesterday--"
"YESTERDAY?!" - I generally make an effort to not interrupt people, but seriously?
"--Yes, yesterday" he continued, "but with the cutbacks in cleaning apparently there's no one who can clean that until Monday morning."
So if you're going through the Hollywood TC & need to take the elevator tomorrow, enjoy riding it with 2-day old vomit. Sure, that sounds safe.
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My lord!
How much more can this place fuck over the public?
See if the DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, or HARRY SAPPORTA, will go on down there and clean up the mess.
We could have had FOUR cleaners for the price of these OVERPAID pencil neck geeks!
Well I'm glad I didn't just take the elevator, then.
;-)
What about people with disabilities who are unable to use the stairs? What is their recourse?
So here I am, a person with a disability, and there is vomit in the elevator. Say I am using a wheelchair, can I use the stairs to do my MAX-bus transfer? No. I have to use the elevator. But because there is vomit in the elevator and it hasn't been cleaned up (despite being reported with ample time for a cleaner to come to the scene) -- I'm to be exposed to someone else's biohazard previous stomach contents? What about if I am a manual wheelchair user; now that biohazard is on my hands, exposing me, with no universal precautions (gloves). So if the vomit has "bloodborne pathogens," I've got them too.
Same goes for anyone else, no matter how you're connected to the ground. If someone doesn't see it and steps in it, now it's on our shoes being tracked everywhere, forbid a small child leans down and says, "What's this, mommy or daddy?" -- the possibilities are endless.
For me, I happen to be a service dog handler (this goes for guide dog handlers too), and depending on how fast I'm moving that day, I may or may not see the hazard on the ground (a guide dog handler likely wouldn't see the hazard at all). Myself or my dog may walk right in it. Do you know how unpleasant it is to have a contaminated dog in public? Would you like it if I brought my service dog into a business and it had laid down (or even stood in) someone's vomit? That's enough to ask me to be removed by federal law. How am I supposed to get home or get anywhere to clean my dog? Who is going to pay for it and assist me in the washing process? Many groomers will not even let a dog into their shops for a bath (even if I was to use their equipment at a self-service dog wash) without a complete vaccination record, vet contacts, etc. on file -- which can take a few days. What am I to do when faced with an immediate need to bathe my dog? Also, bathing a large dog like mine is a minimum of $50. That's right, fifty dollars. That's not an amount of money most people, especially people who are on fixed income and work service dogs or guide dogs, have available to them on a regular basis.
The decision to not clean up a documented biohazard contaminant is a very poor one, with potentially serious consequences. People with disabilities are being unfairly exposed to a hazardous environment (for a biohazard concern!) that has been adequetely reported by customers and not followed through for timely cleanup by management.
I'd be tempted to say that lack of cleaning an accessible feature of a documented biohazard threat, and/or immediately taking it out of order until it can be properly cleaned in the appropriate manner, should be a violation of the ADA and other applicable disability rights laws.
Additionally, the lack of immediate cleanup and/or adequete actions to contain the problem to the smallest possible scale (i.e. taking the elevator out of order) is contributing to cross-contamination of the environment on a *huge* scale.
I am appalled.
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