I could write a book on it Mr Roofline. IN FACT I’m currently seriously contemplating blowing the whistle. I’ve nothing to lose; I have a job offer back in America. The B.S. in the NHS is suffocating! I know it’s bad for us all in these austere times, some more than others. But if it’s true that you can judge a country by the way it treats the elderly and poorly – we are in big trouble!
Our staffing levels have halved! It’s like a ghost department. I half expect to come in one day and see tumbleweed rolling down the corridor. ‘They’ tell you the funding has been ring-fenced. ‘They’ tell you it’s just more streamlined, (LEAN), and care is the same as ever. But ‘they’ are telling the public lies!
My sister works at a Job Centre. She used to get praised for her hard work, for successfully getting people into jobs. But now she is constantly being chastised for not simply getting people off claiming and f*&k whether there’s any work for them.
This may polarise some folk here, about how it’s good to get scroungers off the system, but it’s
so much more than that I can tell you. She’s on happy pills, like others in her dept. Luckily, she may retire soon I hope – before it kills her.
Maybe some here who are sadly unemployed can relate to this? As someone said earlier, being unemployed is just as depressing for those who earnestly and honestly want work. I was unemployed once, a long time ago, for nearly a year IIRC. I remember it well. The first few weeks were quite good, like a holiday, I’ve escaped the rat race an’ all that. Trouble is, even if you win you’re still just a rat, so after a while I was going up the wall!!!
Unable to afford anything, feeling like I’m not a part of normal society, unable to see and treat my young daughter like I used to. It was a very dark period in my life
and sometimes I have to remind myself, and others, just how lucky we are to be in
any work.
But that’s not to say one should have to put up with seven shades of $h1t for the privilege!
Rant over...
