On a Friday evening the staff at the Niklagården care home in Älmhult in southern Sweden found that lunch and dinner were missing for both Saturday and Sunday. Care assistant Erdina Glavas looked for the food on the other wards without finding it. It was a quarter to six. She rang the municipal production kitchen and nobody answered; the manager on call could not help either. Together with her own manager she then worked out a plan.
She drove her own car to the Ica Maxi, bought food for the whole weekend with her own money and fried chicken in the ward’s small kitchen while colleagues peeled potatoes. Staff had to keep watch at the same time, because residents with dementia followed the smells into a kitchen that now held hot plates, an oven and sharp knives. Afterwards colleagues and managers alike thanked her. The municipality is looking into why the food never arrived, and the staff have filed a lex Sarah report, the Swedish duty to report failings in care.
So…:
What at your workplace only works because someone quietly pays for it?
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