Strikes, strikes and more strikes

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[Easy-X]

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[chickenstrip]

It is said that enough money is being wasted on "diversity and inclusion" shite to pay 12,000 nurses.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[Nobby the Bastard]

And quite frankly people.are talking shit.

More money is wasted by tory governments insisting on having headcount limits so contractors are brought in at a higher cost instead.
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[chickenstrip]

Whatever the figures, "diversity and inclusion" shite IS a waste of money.
All public services waste huge amounts of money on bureaucracy and procurement, as you are well placed to know. I don't doubt that the current government isn't helping matters, but what are Labour's plans to solve this? What is the infallible socialist solution?
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[Ste]

That's a good example of the culture of inefficiency in the NHS and other parts of the public sector.

[hellkat]

The amount of money spent on EDI would be better spent on communications that simply accepted the diversity of the population. After all these years of political correctness, it does not really take much to be intuitive about the whole goddam issue

My gears get ground by many of these EDI people seeming to be all about the staffing diversity, with very little lip-service about the same diversity of patients...

Digital inequality and practical clinical innovation are really the main areas they should be concentrating on with all that EDI money. Get your patients into the 21st century and keep them alive longer.
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[grr666]

Sodding Royal Mail. Waiting on the last of my Christmas gifts for other people and a Jizz Machine sticker from
Baron Von Grumble to turn up. Both sent out at the start of the month. Back in the day when they were the only
way to send things, they could throw their toys out of their pram on the regular and all would be forgotten afterwards
until the next inevitable Crimbo strop. They are playing with fire now. They need their parcels business as well as
their letters/junk mail business and I can imagine a lot of suppliers who send parcels and packages out regularly will
be reconsidering their carrier of choice after this stunt. It is probably mainly because I am hugely unpopular but none
the less I haven't had a single Christmas card yet either. I at least get one from my parents and sister by now if nobody else.
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[hellkat]

I gave up giving Christmas Cards for Lent.

... or was that a New Years Resolution
Nah, can't be that: I made a resolution to never make any more resolutions. Been sticking to that one for years now.

I don't really miss getting them, although I always have a pack of my hospital's charity ones to hand in case I feel the need to dish one out.

I'm dreading next week, when people go round leaving them on your desk when you're out of the office, cos I'm new(ish) in the department, and they don't yet know what a grinch I am about Christmas cards

Although I have got a piece of mistletoe in my pocket in case the Director of Operations hoves into view


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[Ribenapigeon]

I was speaking to a colleague the other day who left nursing a few years ago. They left not because of the pay they could fatten their wage substantially every month just by strategically choosing the days they did overtime a couple of times, they left because of the working culture and the attitudes amongst staff.
I applied for two jobs in the NHS last year. The first job I was over qualified for so was rejected at application the second job was still in process six months after I applied by which time I was busy doing my agency work so didn't need the hassle of the NHS. I also looked at working as a driver for the ambulance service. Turned out I needed the more extensive first aid training to be considered but because of covid, I couldn't get the training. Completely absurd considering the ambulance service itself is jam-packed with people who could probably give the training to any new recruit, and really as just a driver did I really need to know how to operate an automatic defibrillator? Presumably, if I was driving an ambulance I would be crewing it with a qualified paramedic. So I'm very skeptical about the short staffing crisis being blamed on pay issues. I think utterly shit HR is probably more to blame. The problem my colleague suggested is that nurses' egos are as fat as their arses and they really believe the hype despite all the bad attitudes and behaviors they have amongst themselves, they also said they got sick of having to work that some of their colleagues were literally too obese to be able to do the work. Maybe this strike will be a good thing if it lifts the veil of cheap sentimentalism from the general publics' eyes and we start looking more realistically at the NHS`s internal problems.

[Easy-X]

When my wife told me about the "clap for the NHS" thing all she got back was a raised eyebrow. It had folly written through it like a stick of rock.
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[grr666]

[Easy-X]

It sad to discover your loved one might be another NPC. I love my wife but there's certain topics she's only able to regurgitate what the TV's said

Then again I mentioned "oh you know that charity twat that got that bird fired? Turns out she's a total scam artist..." to which she fired back "everyone knows that, where have you been?"
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[M.C]

[to v or not to v]

[hellkat]

Ooo, I worked at the Tavi for about 18 months. Weird place, interesting though - quite ugly in style, and they have the patients' artwork on the walls. Getting to my office was pretty grim, a long corridor with lots of scribbly things with scary faces.

I'm a bit of a fan-girl for hospital arts departments, they're undervalued and I like to see staff and patient art - but the art on those walls was dark.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Military discipline is for, guess what, the military.
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[hellkat]

*wibble*
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