Renton

Some T&Cs working for industry, as well as pay, shit all over what the NHS can offer (a/l and pensions being exceptions, but even they are okay). It's also funny, but working for a large trust (>16,000 employees in that alone) is much more corporate than somewhere like I am presently, and I hate the corporate side of things. Fucking weraring collared shirts, proper shoes, and nightmare HR to contend with. I don't find my work as challenging or academically rewarding as before, but everything else is better including complete freedom to wfh or go in, whenever I want. In contrast the trust made me go in during the pandemic for no justifiable reason at all given ewhat I do. Truth is I can't afford to work in the NHS or academia now anyway. NHS staff deserrve to be paid much, much more imo. And teachers. And police. And council workers. Etc. But not those people in Longbenton cos fuck knows what they do other than shuffle papers and play with paper clips all day long.

Well done mate, happy Xmas.

I got my first proper job this time of year, following 3 years of stacking shelves in Safeways. Was a fantastic Xmas. Good luck.

It's quite common for heroes to get tarnished with what they become, and that is definitely the case with both Morrissey and Beardsley. To a lesser extent, Ronaldo has tarnished his reputation at ManU a bit (I wonder if Giggs has too?). However, sexual abuse of minors is a line that surely shouldn't be crossed. But what is really strange is that as the brokendoll says Johnson was pretty much a nothing player for the mackems except for the goal he scored against us. There is one dissenter who points this out in that thread I think. He is repeatedly called a legend by the rest, even the more reasoned posters, which is fucking abhorrent.

Sorry to hear that, what a crap time of year for this to happen. All he can do is try to focus on the good times as hard as that is.

Good luck, not that you need it. The streets will be safer with you at the helm, unless you happen to be a prostitute, of course. I'm sure you can always resit it anyway, although I know you have an aversion to sitting like a civlised person. 👍

Great post.

National nebt now approachig 2.5 TRILLION quid. I'm confused, didn't the Best Prime Minister of our lifetimes say it would be gone by around 2015 ish?

The amount of money spunked up the wall in the NHS on agency workers, no doubt to the benefit of tory donors, all because the NHS can't retain staff, and who can blame them? Not me certainly. Two years ago I was employed by the NHS to ensure only cost-effective interventions are used in the service. Lack of opportunity and a decade of real-term pay cuts ensured I jumped ship and now I am basically paid by Big Pharma to extract as much money as I can from the NHS. And I'm fucking good at it, knowing how the system works. Someone, can't remember who and I'm paraphrasing, recently said the UK is a poor version of the USA with an NHS. Shortly it will be a poor version of the USA without an NHS. Honestly, it makes me so fucking mad but I've practically given up at this point, from now on all I can do is think of my family first and insulate myself from what's coming.

Interesting chart published on the Guardian. As much as I think Brexit is a complete disaster I sill think you should be free to somewhat agree it's been a success!

Real food price inflation.

I think the tories have hopelessly misjudged this one and the public are right behind them. Of course the usual suspects will select the odd vox pop to say differently but the polls speak for themselves. As for leverage, they have huge leverage because the public is utterly dependent on the NHS, especially front line workers like nurses and paramedics. Most of us know we simply can't afford to move ot a US style insurance system for healthcare. Which will be the inevitable result of underpaying NHS staff hamorrhaging skilled personell through lack of retention. They have to make a stand now. I think they should get and settle for 10% for now but the important thing going forward has to be to index link pay to inflation to stop the shithousery of the tories once and for all.

By the way, no fucking way is real iinflation at around 10% imo. My outgoings have probably gone up 30% in the last year or so. All the big ticket items - mortgage, energy, credit card bills, through the roof. Weekly food shop gone up massively despite the fact I no longer even buy any alcohol. I can perfectly see why some nurses are reduced to using food banks.

Well it's less than half of 19% and way less than inflation, following more than a decade of consecutive real-term pay cuts year on year. Basically you're saying they should be happy with a 3% pay cut on top of the 20% cut they've already had since 2010? No. The minimum they should get is to match inflation, and from then onwards there pay should be automatically linked to inflation as a minimum, as it is with benefits. Same for all public sector workers.

Count yourself lucky. When I got it in January, the kids did as well but the wife didn't. Meant I had to look after the kids whilst suffering from covid at the same time, whilst she swanned around scot free.

A 7/8 year old boy who will be virtually a man now, enjoying the best NUFC football ofa decade. Sad Mackem Bastards. Never has an abbreviation been more appropriate.

I know, I bet that's exactly what they were thinking. Jesus Christ, what an imagination these cunts have.

Fucking hell, that thread is tragic. Absolutely all of them still wanking themselves off about a single match 8 years ago won by a convicted paedophile, following which they have spent 2 years in the second tier and 4 years in the third tier. Metalists.

And 8 years later, still proudly celebrating the paedo.

Welcome to the Stadium of Light! Dogshit and vomit stains.

Oh my.

Where the fuck are my daily Boobies today? What with this and @Gemmill getting booted off twitter, the Internet is falling to pieces.

Avoid this one, it's not arsed if it works or not . * * Sorry, word you're looking for is bivalent.

It's fucking insane how many accidents seem to happen at US level crossings. You'd think if you were transporting a fuck off MASSIVE steel girder you'd make sure you could clear the crossing in time.