Month: April 2023

How is the situation with doctors in terms of work? Which doctor specialities have the best work-life balance? Is a family practitioner with more time than let's say a rheumatologist? Can a doctor choose the working hours in a week he has e.g. By saying that he will work for 30 instead of 40 hours a week?

Another Admin Day I am not so sure I want to attend. Today is the only day of the week I get to work remotely, but I am debating whether to go into the office for a free lunch my department is having. I found out about this department lunch on Monday, but it said nothing about it being for Admin Day. I wish I had known so I could have prepared in advance. I only realized it was Admin Day until this morning when I turned on my work laptop and saw an email of an ecard from my director supervisor. She isn't going to be there for the lunch either. I have put a lot of extra effort into my job, working extra hours, doing work that no admin should be doing, saving my department from massive pitfalls they are even unaware of that could break their entire…

My first job was in domiciliary care and it was a nightmare. I quit in the first month. It had nothing to do with the nature of the job or the clients and everything to do with management. I was told in the beginning that there is no set training period and it depends entirely on experience and since I had none then I could expect more shadowing calls before I started doing calls on my own. This was bs. I had 2 days of shadowing (around 5-7 calls) before being sent off on my own the following Monday, feeling woefully unprepared. I had to do classroom-based training about how to administer medication, how to care for catheters ect but it was by no means extensive and again left me unprepared. In my first week I cried after visiting an elderly lady with dementia because I had never done her…

Hello, I'm in a spot I've never been in before and wondering what's the best option. I've been working at this place and got signed for 17 an hour, I couldn't afford to keep looking without having any income. Fast forward to me learning about how awful management is at this place, my supervisor will just ignore me if I ask a question they don't want to answer. We get a new guy last week. He and I were talking and I asked him how much they started him at, he told me 18 an hour but he is with a temp service so the company just sees they have to pay the temp service a certain amount. I'm not making 18 and found it strange that I was training someone who is getting paid more than me for the same job. Given things I have experienced with this company…

I was already working in the company and after noticing that an opportunity popped at a different site which was right in the city I lived in, I applied and I got the job. At first I thought the new boss was friendly based off the interview, shouldn’t be bad right? I was wrong. Two months in that new place, I was working like a hamster on a wheel with no support given from the boss, couple that with serious health problems of my own. I was the sole HR rep at a site with 600 employees. I busted my ass to keep up and the new boss didn’t understand why my workload was too much. I even divulged my serious health problems to the boss in the hopes that they would help out, but they didn’t seem sympathetic. I asked for support on two occasions. And he balked at…

With AI now effectively here we will once again be told we are worth nothing, because AI can do our jobs. This time, however we are getting into a situation where unemployment rate or over 30% is quite possible. The next few years might be the last time it will be possible for us to rebel before 'AI took your job so you cannot afford anything' becomes the norm. If we as a species cannot survive on surplus value generated by our work and AI on top of that, and refuse to feed and house everyone, we might as well all die out.