Uplifting Post-It Notes Removed From Workers’ Cars at RI Hospital, Says “Kindness Crew” Leader
Thursday, May 28, 2020
An organizer of a group of students who have been placing post-it notes of support on essential workers’ cars for weeks says security at Rhode Island Hospital removed them on Wednesday at the direction of the hospital.
“The Kindness Crew and I have been carrying out community kindness waves at the hospitals and local essential workers job places for the last 8 weeks placing over 3,000 kindness post-its on essential workers cars with great feedback from the essential workers as to how it lifted them up at the end of their workdays,” said Rose Molina.
Molina, who is a school social worker, leads the “crew” from Juanita Sanchez High School in Providence, who have an Instagram page with over 400 posts and 900 followers.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“Today security at Rhode Island Hospital stopped us from continuing our mission at lot C1 as we placed post-its noting ‘it must be approved by marketing.’ Shortly after, we watched the security guards taking them off all the cars we just placed the post-its on. Thanks. I’m not sure why they felt the need to do that as well,” said Molina.
"Kindness isn’t something that needs to be 'approved by marketing' and maybe the mere problem our universe faces everyday. See a kind human, be a kind human, do a kind act. @rhodeislandhospital We will continue this, perhaps you could talk to your security. Thanks,” she added.
Hospital Responds
Representatives from Rhode Island Hospital said they were unaware of alleged incident.
“I’ve checked and we don’t have any report for RIH security that matches up to what’s in the social media post,” said Christina Spaight O’Reilly, Senior Public Relations Officer for Lifespan.
Molina responded in turn.
“They called their higher-ups while I was standing in the lot,” said Molina of what she said was the security response.
