Evicted, locks changed, no notice...

BLT_2

If I get ill and need an operation please don't let the OP be the only doctor available. He will probably forget where the surgery is and not be able to find where he left his surgical instruments.

She probably kicked him out because he kept losing his keys or forgetting where he lived

shellsuit

BLT wrote: »

If I get ill and need an operation please don't let the OP be the only doctor available. He will probably forget where the surgery is and not be able to find where he left his surgical instruments.

She probably kicked him out because he kept losing his keys or forgetting where he lived

I'd hope that if you needed an operation, it would be done by a surgeon, in a hospital, not a junior doctor, in a doctor's surgery. :cool:

bitsandpieces

BLT wrote: »

If I get ill and need an operation please don't let the OP be the only doctor available. He will probably forget where the surgery is and not be able to find where he left his surgical instruments.

She probably kicked him out because he kept losing his keys or forgetting where he lived

Surprisingly common for doctors to have disorganised their personal lives :rotfl: If I need an operation, I don't care whether the doctor's life outside work is in a state of permanent chaos - I just want them to be able to do their job well!

Shocking how LL dealt with this. Personally, I'd look to get belongings back first (if she trashes computer etc., data may be lost even if you sue ) and then throw the book at her.

lynzpower

bitsandpieces wrote: »

Surprisingly common for doctors to have disorganised their personal lives :rotfl: If I need an operation, I don't care whether the doctor's life outside work is in a state of permanent chaos - I just want them to be able to do their job well!

Shocking how LL dealt with this. Personally, I'd look to get belongings back first (if she trashes computer etc., data may be lost even if you sue ) and then throw the book at her.

If the data is lost and your Phd ( or whatever the course is) ends up being up in smoke, I expect that too would be covered with consequential losses you have incurred

I truly hope this doesn't happen, I used to know a girl who had her car stolen with her laptop in the boot that had her masters dissertation on

Fire_Fox

Touche wrote: »

No landline.

Yes! A note would have been nice! As I said, I'm certain she was there on the Wednesday as the locks were done differently and my post moved to the kitchen table. She could have left a note easily...

Yes! She could have got me at the hospital. She has my work details and even a contact in staffing (who she actually spoke to before I moved in).

Maybe I have done something I shouldn't have. I can't think of anything. I really don't know. I haven't had the chance to actually talk to her about it.

Creditors are not allowed to contact you at work; in no way am I excusing an illegal eviction by saying that BTW. :mad: You need to get hold of your landlord's address and start with a 'letter before action'. It is no use dealing with this by telephone as you need written evidence if this ends up in court.

I am concerned you have irreplaceable research data on a laptop that could have got stolen or simply broken down at any time. Please either purchase an external hard drive or join one of the many free online file storage services. Dropbox even have an iPhone app. If you have a TomTom I am guessing you have an iPhone? You can sync all your handset contacts with Google contacts simply by plugging into your lappy. That means you would have been able to access your contacts from any PC with net access.

RX-78

Milliewilly wrote: »

On Monday I will start calling all the Senior Registrars junior doctors and see what response I get .

You may consider as a term senior registrar should not exist but it still does and the pay scales are defined accordingly as per your BMA link from April 2009. I apologise if you were offended :beer: but there are lots of walter mitty characters on this board who spout out large salaries and often their posts do not indicate someone on those sorts of earnings.

You have to admit a Speciality Registrar on £50K being evicted after an apparent simple mix up over changing a direct debit that your Landlady has a copy of so she must be party to the security problem causing a minor 6 day delay in payment suddenly leading to locks being changed and an eviction, a lost phone so uncontactable (why not just buy a £20 paygo whilst yours was repaired?) being unable to remember where your landlady's house was (does your Tom Tom not store a list of destinations visited in the memory?) does sound a little strange.......

Gosh I do hope people stop passing judgement on matters they know very little about.

As already pointed out the term "senior registrar" has been out of use for best part of last 10 years. Some older consultants may use the term but they also fully know the term is obsolete but chooses to be old fashioned. Also any clinical staff should know doctors in training (which includes registrar) are technically called "junior doctor", regardless of how near they are to qualifyng as a consultant.

It isn't uncommon for hospital doctors to have little knowledge of finance and have disorganized personal life. I know it doesn't hapen today but it wasn't too long ago junior doctors were working over 70 hours/week on average - thats almost x2 as much as British average. Even now, they may work almost 80 hours on some week.

p.s. What the OP's job got to do with what LL's done anyway? It'll be nice for some people to explain why they feel so strongly about discreditting the OP's job.

cceg

RX-78 wrote: »

Gosh I do hope people stop passing judgement on matters they know very little about.

As already pointed out the term "senior registrar" has been out of use for best part of last 10 years. Some older consultants may use the term but they also fully know the term is obsolete but chooses to be old fashioned. Also any clinical staff should know doctors in training (which includes registrar) are technically called "junior doctor", regardless of how near they are to qualifyng as a consultant.

It isn't uncommon for hospital doctors to have little knowledge of finance and have disorganized personal life. I know it doesn't hapen today but it wasn't too long ago junior doctors were working over 70 hours/week on average - thats almost x2 as much as British average. Even now, they may work almost 80 hours on some week.

p.s. What the OP's job got to do with what LL's done anyway? It'll be nice for some people to explain why they feel so strongly about discreditting the OP's job.

Here Here, I am a nurse in A&E and i know full well what some of the Dr's are like

PasturesNew

Let's not forget, the OP was running their life just fine, with a broken phone, miles from home, paying their rent, dropping everything to go sign new forms, going off on holiday .... until the scr0te of a LL f3cked up their day!

Kaz2904

I've not read all of the replies (frankly because I'm tired and got bored ).
For the doubters, I would like to say that I'm a nurse. I'm awful for organisation outside the home when I'm on a long stretch.
If I had dropped my mobile phone and broken it (hmmmm like happened a couple of months ago when I went to the loo) then I would probably not have access to any phone numbers straight away. I don't save them to the sim (is that the right word?- you know the little card) since I have changed contracts a couple of times and been told I'd lose any numbers not kept on the phone itself.
With regards to money- cash, I have walked around with £50 in my purse for some time without realising as it was in a different section. Normally though I don't have any cash on me. How many of us do? If I suddenly need money I ask the kids to borrow their pocket money.

Absent mindedness, well from observation I don't think it's only health professionals. As a health professional I would say that my most fabulous piece of absentmindedness could well be (actually, just is!) when we had moved into a flat for a few weeks while we exchanged contracts on our house. As we were moving very quickly, we hadn't unpacked any boxes. DH went to his brothers house to help him fit his kitchen. As I was going to be stuck in an upstairs flat with 2 tinies, I decided to visit my sister 200 miles away.
Saw DH Friday morning and kissed him goodbye. Spent the day packing everything up. Packed the car after my Aunty & Uncle had closed the garage (which we lived above) for the weekend.
Got kids in car. Got drinks for them. Set off for weekend away.
Sunday evening: Get home around 9pm. DH there, just arrived but sitting in car outside. Why? Waiting for brother as he's got home and door is wide open. So they go and check it.
What happened, I went to slam door, it didn't so I've left the flat with the door wide open and all of our posessions boxed and ready to go for a whole weekend!

Not a one off sadly. I get door knocks cause I've left the keys in the car, in the door, the doors are open, or, the other day, kids friends knocked, I'd left the keys in the ignition of the unlocked car which had the radio on :eek:.

Sign of a busy life and a quiet road?

Ah, and a Doctor, you're mad! (and probably underpaid and massively overworked. I hope the ward nurses look after you and give you tea and chocolate!

Touche

In the end the landlady wanted to meet in a pub car park! She wouldn't reveal her address when I said I needed it.

I went to the police station and waited 3 hours for an officer to become available. The time came for the pub carpark meeting and the desk guy called me over and suggested I go and make contact myself (as no officer was available) to find out what was going on and try to regain some of my stuff.

So I went! I met her in a pub car park. She said I should know well enough what I'd done. When asked to explain she said she'd tried to chase me for rent and she couldn't contact me. I didn't mention the police or my contact with a solicitor earlier today. She tried to make me sign something about not wanting to live there anymore... I declined politely. She got angry. I declined again saying I'd read it properly when I had my stuff. She shouted "why can't you just co-operate?". I said I'm not signing anything without legal advice. Her mum was also there and suggested they should keep my stuff! But the landlady replied that she didn't want it.

I got some stuff. I know there's some stuff missing. Easy to track stuff so far like cooking utensils, my computer speaker subwoofer wasn't there (you can't miss it), I havent seen my laptop (but the backup hard drive was there). Not all of my books were there (I have a big collection... probably a couple of grands worth). I havent seen my girlfriend's military uniform (she'll kill me if it's gone! haha). But there is a BIG suitcase and 4 big bags I havent checked through (seem to be bedding and clothes so I'm not holding out much hope).

I went back to the police station and waited for an officer. Eventually one became available. I explained what'd happened. She looked baffled initially. When I mentioned that illegal eviction was a criminal offence under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she looked out of her depth, but she did really well in the end. She admitted she had no idea, left the room and came back with the legislation in hand. She asked how far I wanted to take it and whether I wanted the landlady arrested, fined and put in prison... I replied yes! She said she'd deal with the case herself and has given me contact details and an appointment to come see her later in the week.

Thanks for the support guys