- One evening in residential, another assistant counselor said that detox had been radioing for me. I called detox, and was asked to go over to the D.D. unit. The counselor there said a client was not doing well. It was an older client with stroke symptoms.
- We decided the counselor would call 911 while I made sure the client was okay. After the client's immediate situation was taken care of, I looked for a radio to call Detox. (I was not familiar with the common hiding places for radios in that building).
- The supervisor who had asked me to check on the client said she had been made to look bad, because she had not checked on the client until the ambulance arrived. (The counselor's first call had been to Detox, where the supervisor was.)
- The counselor (rather than the supervisor) was blamed for the slow communication among staff that evening. It got to the point that she felt her job was being threatened.
- Most of the "wasted" time had been caused by me not having a radio. I had made weekly notes in the residential log about the need for radios, but the residential Director had ignored the entries.
Three reports were written by me, about that incident.
- The first report said nobody was to blame. The Director continued blaming the counselor.
- The second report said that the counselor specifically was not to blame. The Director continued blaming the counselor.
- The third report mentioned the many log entries supervisors had ignored. It said: "The lack of any response made it clear that radios are not a priority to supervisors".
- The entries, about a dozen over a three month period, were in the men's Residential log. The Residential Director had completely ignored them.
- After the last report the matter was quietly dropped by Directors.
Days later it rained brand new radios at Clitheroe.
The client never returned to treatment.
Within days of the incident, the Residential Director was telling other staff that I needed "guidance" with my log entries. He obviously was trying to cover up his own lack of diligence (with regard to the logs), by getting employees to find mistakes in my logging.