I work as an admin clerk for a very busy acute inpatient NHS ward……
The admin roles used to be:
2 admins working 11 hours a day, 3 days a week. One would do Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The other would do Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 11 hours on Saturday were paid at time and a third. The following week , they would swap the days over. So every month, each of them got 2 lots of Saturday pay, at the higher rate.
The higher ups decided that “we” needed to save money. So they got rid of one of the admin roles and at the same time got rid of the Saturday work.
This leaves, now just me, working on my own, on basic pay, with no weekend enchantment, and there is numerous grumbling that not as much gets done now…..
NO SH*T…..you cut the staff and the hours by 50 percent and what exactly do you think will happen.
Anytime they complain that not as much gets done, I cheerfully remind them that they cut the hours and the staff down.
But guess what, I have NEVER had so many managers.
They want a champagne service, while paying beer money.
They can f@ck right off.
And when ever they pressure me to up my game (without my wages being upped, naturally), after they decided to cut the staff levels to the bone while retaining senior managers…..I tell hem no.
The audacity of these people never ceases to amaze me.