Pennock is still up to it's eyebrows in trouble

It appears Pennock Hospital is still operating as it always has. Slightly different players (with a few old line operators) but same game. As per a writer in today’s Banner, the head of environmental services, Mike Strimback, is still steering sweet deals to his family like the hospital is his rich uncle. It seems mike has eliminated a position involved with maintenance in the Pennock Village plus the overtime incurred maintaining the snow removal of the hospital and replaced it with contracted operators. This might be OK if it saved money (but I would bet it doesn't) but it should have been advertised instead of being handed out to his own family.

Yes, that’s right, his own family. You see, Mike’s second child is managing the company that was given the contract. In fact, as per an inside source, Mikes youngest son also works for this company.

Pennock has tried to contract maintenances services out in the past with no success. This was attempted by past management employees who are no longer in the employment of the hospital. It ended up costing the hospital much more money than if they had maintained their own maintenance department.

This family employment racket in the hospital's maintenance department is nothing new. Mike has had his 2 youngest boys working the department on many occasions; EVEN WHEN THERE WAS NO WORK AVAILABLE! The regular employees were ordered to "hide" the youngest even. Mike's wife was even employed in the same department for several years as HIS secretary. When a regular employee notified higher ups, he was let go. Those “higher ups” were let go themselves later, lol. My bet is that this current writer made the same mistake and tried to alert higher management of improper management practices occurring in his department.

I would think Pennock would have to march a much more “straight” path due to their recent troubles. This “family” employment in their maintenance department goes against any good management practices that I have ever known. It not only destroys moral in the department but it drops employee efficiency drastically as work that would normally be done by regular employees properly employed and trained for the job now is performed by untrained, unmotivated, and demoralized workers.

Pennock Hospital would have been much better off keeping Harry Doele and letting go untrained and uneducated maintenance employees. In fact, I wonder just what Management education or experience Mike himself might have. Doesn’t appear to be much if anything.

Wow, Pennock just can’t seem to get it right yet. Time to clean house some more.