Checked the emails at work today (I’m a care worker with people with intellectual and physical disabilities working in a direct care role) and for some reason there was a job offer mailed out industry wide for the role I perform.
Now I know this was just a ‘send this on to anyone you think is interested’ type thing, not a threat to my position (I’ve been here 20+ years) so I almost deleted it. But then I decided to read through, to see how it described the job.
It was full of new speak, catch phrases, empty jargon. But most importantly it literally didn’t describe the actual job.
Which explains a lot.
Because although they employ 300+ direct care staff every year, almost every time I encounter someone with less than 1 month of experience, they are utterly confused as to what is expected of them.
Cooking? No one told me I would need to cook. I’ll just do toast.
Bathing? I don’t want to bathe strangers, can’t they do it them selves?
What do you mean I have to take them out? We will just stay here today.
As much as management has the potential to piss me off, people who apply for the job and don’t know what it is, pisses me off more.
Rant over.