Incorrect results, poor hygiene: Erdinger test station operator has to close
Created: 04/14/2022, 06:00
By: Thomas Zimmerly
Drinks instead of tests soon?
The test station in the former Bel Air in Erding is now closed.
© Raffael Scherer
Irregularities in corona tests: The district office withdraws the operating license from Erdinger company with branches in several districts.
Erding – Incorrect tests, untrained staff, poor hygiene conditions.
Hair-raising conditions are said to have prevailed in corona test stations operated by a company from Erding in several districts.
The district office in Erding has now withdrawn permission from MBC Gastronomie GmbH – for the second time.
Managing director is Mario Criepok.
In the spring of 2021 he will convert his Club Bel Air into a test station and will soon be operating others in the districts of Freising, Dachau and Ebersberg.
A lot is supposed to go wrong in its test sites, mostly containers.
Some of his 78 employees report unsustainable conditions.
Over the past few weeks, the 33-year-old has closed almost all of his stations.
Most recently, only the stations in the former Bel Air and in Dachau were open.
He has already fired many of his employees.
The district office in Erding had known about inconsistencies for a long time and had already withdrawn the “commission” from Criepok in June 2021, according to press spokeswoman Claudia Fiebrandt-Kirmeyer.
The authority is now explicitly ordering the closure of the test station in Bel Air.
On Wednesday, test customers were still standing in front of the club on Münchener Strasse, so the notification sent by the district office on Tuesday must still have been in the mail.
“You could book appointments up to 4 p.m. with us.
We did the tests of the last customers and entered their data into the program.
Then I left without checking the test.
The test persons later received a result by e-mail.
The results were automatically negative,” reports an MBC employee.
When asked why she didn't stay longer, she says: "I acted on specific instructions.
We employees were told to close on time.
Overtime would not be paid.”
The thing with the automatic results is confirmed by several company employees.
One employee goes even further and says that "people got test results who weren't even there with us".
Another employee says that she often stayed until the result was available - but not always.
"It's the first time I've heard that testing was so lax," says Managing Director Criepok when asked.
"I can't imagine working with such gross negligence." The MBC boss is considering going to the police.
Criepok suspects an intrigue against his person and speaks of a "clear dissatisfaction on the part of individual employees who want to damage my reputation".
But the dissatisfied employees go even further.
Again, several state that they should always have tested alone in the container.
On their first day at work, "someone gave them a short briefing, that's it," said one voice.
Further training for testing: none.
One employee even claims that she "got a certificate out of nowhere" even though she never took part in any training.
Criepok, on the other hand, states that a briefing was sufficient, training was not necessary.
Regarding the accusation that only one employee is available in the container at a time, he says that he doesn't need three people for jobs "that only do 20 tests a day".
There were also deficiencies in hygiene in the containers.
As the MBC employees surveyed reported in unison, there were no gloves, gowns or disinfectants.
In many cases, employees would have bought the items on their own account.
The boss then only reluctantly reimbursed the amounts – in one case not at all.
Criepok denies that vehemently.
Many MBC employees who have employment contracts on a 450-euro basis or on a part-time basis complain that sometimes they have not received their wages for a month, sometimes they have received it late or sometimes not in full.
That only applied to cases where the employees "didn't fill out their timesheets properly," Criepok admits.
