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CaptainFlashheart - Member"I get made to undertake stupid assessments repeatedly that do not improve care - indeed occupy so much of my time that they reduce the amont of time I have to give care......."
utter waste
I thought there was no waste in the NHS and everything was peachy?
Private sector. I am allowed to use my professional judgement in the NHS - I am not in the private sector. Bureaucratic nonsense like this is far more prevalent in the private sector.
the parasites who feed off my results but contribute nothing positive
The fact that I always thought HR departments would care about employees, then realised that they don't, then realised that they don't refer to us as "resources" for nothing.
when I cant ride to work....or its pissing down.
TJ, how about a 'falls assessment' form for sedated, paralysed patients?
..then a 'bed rail assessment' form for the same patients?
..don't get me going about 'pressure relieving' mattresses that are so poor we need to use inflatable boots to avoid heel damage..
And the Infection control nurse who rings and demands to know why we aren't recording our rates of VAP.... no, I'll stop now, I could go on for a looooooong time
People in Head Office who believe the entire ****ing world exists to revolve around them... and like to play the political games that keep them there.
Walking to the office, along the lakeshore in the blazing sun at 9am, thinking it'd be lovely to get out and explore the country, then remembering that I only get 15 days' holiday a year.
Still, it's only my second week, so the work itself is still pretty exciting!
Crickey - Sounds like yo have some numpties in charge of your stuff. I know they exist in the NHS but IME its far far worse in the private sector for this sort of nonsense
I wouldn't have minded if this was a once a shift even - but I had to do it every hour.
the M62. Although generally it's worse going home. Specifically the stretch between J29 & J26, and the hole between the motorway and Shipley.
I prefer to stay on the M1 now as far as the Leeds outer ring road, then go round the north side of Leeds. Further, but doesn't take any longer - go figure...
Rich_s - MemberPeople in Head Office who believe the entire ****ing world exists to revolve around them... and like to play the political games that keep them there.
Amen brother, I so want an hour with them and a slightly blunt axe
People who ignore my greeting and go straight to the boss
... only to then have him come to me with their technical question because he knows jack all ...
And they still continue to talk to him about it and not me.
And he'll still continue to refer to me for the knowledge.
Sometimes I just want to turn around and walk away.
Then they'll thank him and leave and say naff all to me.
Bureaucratic nonsense like this is far more prevalent in the private sector.
Comedy genius.
CFH - do you work where I do?
At the moment I work part time in both private and NHS. Its a simple fact that the bureaucratic nonsense is far worse in the private sector.
But of course - you know better than I do what I do at work.
Binners - who's writing your copy? Quite frankly it's awful.
IS this one of those magazines designed as a vehicle to sell advertising space using the thin veneer of "lifestyle" content and product reviews?
Calls to 'emergencies' with details.....
Patient has been drinking
Fight in progress
Police travelling
Patient not breathing
Overdose
Cut finger/toothache/diarrhoea
major blood loss PR or PV
Contractions <1min apart
and at 4am last Sunday.... patient (female 22) has vomiitted - been drinking heavily but has never vomitted before after a night out !!
binners - MemberI'm just doing a page layout of essentials that young Tabatha and Tarquin will be requiring when they return to their esteemed educational establishments. A typical example:
"Shoes are by Christian Louboutin of course! Not quite the type of shoe you’d play footie in, but these numbers are sure to earn you some points in the playground. Finally the boys get a chance to wear Christian Louboutin footwear with these fabulous sneakers – they even have that covetable red sole!
Christian Louboutin for men, from £395"
I feel your pain dear boy, & I know how your brain works*
You want a decent job & pay, hell why wouldn't you, but your struggling with your moral side. Well why shouldn't you have a little bit of the modern British culture, you know some real ****s that earn ten times the amount you do don't you?
I have the same problem, but in a fubar way, I'm a car salesman by trade, but the funny thing is we don't 'sell' anything, just offer advice & cars that people can buy, if they want to, no hard sell. But I have to deal with very defensive people that may of had a bad experience with car dealers, they just don't get the 'don't buy it then' approach.
* I'm joking, but then I'm a car dealer & except my opinion counts for jack.
People who have absolutely no interests other than work and appear to want to do nothing but work.
...and then being forced to spend more time with these people that you do with your kids.
Woody - MemberCalls to 'emergencies' with details.....
Patient has been drinking
Fight in progress
Police travelling
Patient not breathing
Overdose
Cut finger/toothache/diarrhoea
major blood loss PR or PVand at 4am last Sunday.... patient (female 22) has vomiitted - been drinking heavily but has never vomitted before after a night out !!
"Contractions <1min apart"
Your shitting me right?
Let em die, I mean it I really do, why would you help such a person?
Society really is fubar.
EDIT to say, assuming the contractions & the emergencies services being called involved alcohol/fighting/night out/cut finger.
My company has a goal to become a High Performance Organisation, it has specifically employed previously unemployable aholes to oversea this project. Each has there own area of specialism (IMO cretinism, ahole licking & the inability to say no boss I won't do that are sadly under represented catorgories).
Some of us are asking what the yardstick is for an HPO company, we'll probably get the answer BP
I seem to have an issue with the nonsensical drivel that some of my colleagues spout continuously - and it's like bleeding groundhog day , the same shite day in day out.
Some of them on the other hand are quite pleasant - just not the ones I work with. Thank god cycling home gets me back out there away from people for a bit!
People who do not care about the product or it's users. Bosses stuck in transmit-only mode.
A heart that's full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that wont heal.
LOL @ Martin
Individual call details NOT necessarily all at once!
Although in the same 'job'
is not unusual 😆Patient has been drinking
Fight in progress
Police travelling
Major blood loss
Pssssssssst..... 😐
blimey Buzz: poetic, beautiful - and sad
you OK ?
"We're just doing a little tour..."(20 people shuffle in and disturb a lighting session.) Followed by..."can you turn the lights on?"
"Can you help me set up"...(4 tables and some chairs, while 4 leisure staff stand idle, some moaning about weak hands)
We've forgotten about...(you are in charge of the bookings!!!)
Is the turnround/getin/out time different for EVERY show? (well it's a different show, what do you think?)
Realising you've only been in work an hour and have seven more to go.................:(
blimey Buzz: poetic, beautiful - and sadyou OK ?
Methinks you know not the song?
People in Head Office who believe the entire ****ing world exists to revolve around them... and like to play the political games that keep them there.
Our execs currently want iPads so the whole world is running around 'procuring and testing' them. ie fannying around all day with toys for the boys. Its like playschool.
The way whoever organises roadworks near Peterborough manages to ensure that there is ALWAYS at least two sections of roadworks on my journey towards the A1; one on each of the 2 routes I could take to the A1.
Money spent on stupid, wasteful things at work when we get given a going over for spending money on stuff that is needed (and have tried to obtain as cheaply as possible)
Looking out of the window when the weather is 'just so' and wishing I could be out in it either photographing stuff or falling off my bike, instead of stuck in an office.
On the whole i actually enjoy my job and have a fair bit of freedom, so i've got little to grumble about. You'd have got a very different answer 5 months ago!
BUT
I can see the south downs from my window and its a nice day to be riding not working.
ThE idiot from the client postroom in the "Hillsong" tshirt who spends his time thinking about jesus and losing deliveries for which, we get blamed...
my MD not calling me to say he's going away to Africa for a week, me finding out when i pop into head office that he's gone and as normal i'm expected to be on call for the whole time he's away cos he's my only superior... and the fact i dont get paid for being on call... or indeed dont get paid for the job i do, just the job i was meant to be doing 3 years ago 🙁
plus side though is that i'm in the process of arranging an afternoon at swinley with one of my patients as a "therapeutic activity" 😀
Bureaucratic nonsense like this is far more prevalent in the private sector.
Becuase of all the crap that successive governments have imposed on them due to H&S etc and the fact that they are worried about the claim culture? 😉
Not day to day work, but:
Where I used to work, one of the top level managers sent another top level manager an email about his holidays. Having a good time, had a private jet to such and such a hotel, food and drink good, weather nice, but one of the cases got lost, been doing this that and the other etc.
The guy who received the email thought it would be a good idea to print this out and stick it on the noticeboard.
At the time, they were making approx 50% of the bottom two rungs of the firm redundant. That didn't go down well 😯
Dennis Buses.
If you can imagine a kit car that's been designed and built by someone with absolutely no mechanical experience, that's what a Dennis bus is like underneath.
My commute and the thoughtless, selfish others who share it.
Binners - please let us have some more quotes. They're pure gold!
Papa_Lazarou - Member
...and then being forced to spend more time with these people that you do with your kids.
thanks for that man.
i sometimes get a bit neg about being a stay at home dad.
wanders of happily to make a brew.
the utter lack of a meritocracy in most businesses
and the kettle makes far too much noise
Current job, the only downside is the location (a drab suburb of Manchester).
Previous job, it was downside for around 2 years during which time we went through the financial crisis and recession. I was in such a bad mental state, I'd write more on here than I would say to colleagues for a week. And one mistake made in the last job has the possibility of ending my whole career. Great.
On the upside, I'll be a father tomorrow. Every cloud, etc. 😀
Binners. How long have you been in Manchester? Every day we see handfuls of badly blinged Range Rovers in the centre. Godawful things.
Don't bregudge how people made their money through drugs, crime or fraud.
Yesterday a lad in a sooped-up Merc AMG cut a corner in town and almost had me over his bonnet. I stopped and looked back (no hand movements- nothing). He slammed on, opened his door, put one foot out and said 'what? what? whats your problem? yeah you keep moving' (I was stationary) and I replied calmly 'its not me with the problem'. He immediately slammed his door and drove off.
I swear he was wearing Louis Vutton trainers?!! WTF.
The morbidly obese people I see on every morning commute with Greggs pasties and a bottle of cheap immitation red bull for breakfast. Makes me shudder.
Urgghh [url= http://www.dedoro.com/i/e/globe-trotter-sneaker-in-monogram-canvas/ ]More money than Style?[/url]
TJ - (and before anybody jumps on the bandwagon, I most certainly am not having a go here) our current experiences of the private sector vs NHS are, oddly, completely opposite. I recently returned to the NHS after ten years working for various private sector companies, and at the moment feel totally disillusioned. What have the f***ers done to my NHS? My current unit appears to be mainly staffed by morons who cant do their job properly yet still believe they deserve a job for life, and managers who believe that everything in the garden's rosey because they have all the necessary paperwork in place, with all the right boxes ticked. I know I'm generalising here, but at the moment, it's really putting a hair across my a**e.
Reading this thread is one of them!