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    EU Commission now blocking vaccine exports to Australia.


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    What do you want from them Jim? They can't go giving away their massive stockpiles that no cunt will take.

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    We've got you cobber. That, but with syringes.

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    Maybe Shipman was ahead of his time.

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    Nurses offered 1% pay rise. Their spokesperson is not a happy bunny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post
    Nurses offered 1% pay rise. Their spokesperson is not a happy bunny.
    'What's funnier; no pay rise at all or a humiliating 1%? Both are very funny.' - Matt Hancock, probably.

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    I find that disgusting.

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    They're lucky to have jobs.

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    Can’t put a price on clapping.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    They're lucky to have jabs.
    Fixed.

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    12.5%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    'What's funnier; no pay rise at all or a humiliating 1%? Both are very funny.' - Matt Hancock, probably.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    'What's funnier; no pay rise at all or a humiliating 1%? Both are very funny.' - Matt Hancock, probably.
    "1%. Then give 12 billion to The Arts".

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    They will be punished at the next election said nobody.

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    Hard as many nurses will have had it this year, I would suggest that the Smiffys of this world have had it harder.

    Emotional arguments need to be left at the door for this sort of thing, because they are so reductive.

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    I do enjoy the "the job I personally chose to do has been difficult this year so I should earn more" arguments. That's not the way this shit works. Unless you want Abattoir and Sewage workers to be the 1%.

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    Four stillbirths in Ireland linked to COVID [placentitis]. Clubs should remain unaffected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post


    We've got you cobber. That, but with syringes.
    Last edited by Queenslander; 05-03-2021 at 12:20 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    EU Commission now blocking vaccine exports to Australia.

    Is that due to our lack of a carbon tax?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I do enjoy the "the job I personally chose to do has been difficult this year so I should earn more" arguments. That's not the way this shit works. Unless you want Abattoir and Sewage workers to be the 1%.
    Sewage workers make 5 grand a year more than nurses on average.

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    lol at chump National Health Service workers missing out on them sweet privatised utility salary gains.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Sewage workers make 5 grand a year more than nurses on average.
    That little?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Four stillbirths in Ireland linked to COVID [placentitis]. Clubs should remain unaffected.
    Probably would have been fat and disabled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Four stillbirths in Ireland linked to COVID [placentitis]. Clubs should remain unaffected.
    Source?

    You're a little lacking on the detail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post
    Nurses offered 1% pay rise. Their spokesperson is not a happy bunny.
    Can't wait for the government to announce a 3% pay increase for MP's...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I do enjoy the "the job I personally chose to do has been difficult this year so I should earn more" arguments. That's not the way this shit works. Unless you want Abattoir and Sewage workers to be the 1%.
    If your workload was dramatically increased you wouldn't expect a payrise?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Hard as many nurses will have had it this year, I would suggest that the Smiffys of this world have had it harder.

    Emotional arguments need to be left at the door for this sort of thing, because they are so reductive.
    Nobody can convince me that anyone has had it worse than ITU nurses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    If your workload was dramatically increased you wouldn't expect a payrise?
    My workload has increased. I'd like a payrise, but I'd actually expect additional staff to be hired instead. Unless there's reason to believe my workload is soon decrease again...

    Look, I get that the NHS doesn't pay particularly well, but that's no secret ahead of time. It just feels a bit snide taking a job because it's what you want to do, but then expecting to profit because the National Health Service had to provide... a health service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    If your workload was dramatically increased you wouldn't expect a payrise?
    This is such public sector attitude.

    If my workload was dramatically increased (and the company was making loads of money) then yes I would.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Nobody can convince me that anyone has had it worse than ITU nurses.
    Including the not inconsiderable number of people who have not had an income at all?

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    Member all those DRAFTED IN vaccinators who are being paid like £230 an hour? Aye.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Including the not inconsiderable number of people who have not had an income at all?
    The people that have lost everything they've ever worked for are nothing in comparison to the ICU staff that had to fulfill ICU duties.

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    I had to answer phones for 3 months while people were on furlough. The nurses had it easy.

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    The jobs thread is gonna be a lot quieter now everybody's decided you should never complain about stuff that just comes with the job or expect a payrise other than to cover cost of living.

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    They're lucky to still have jobs considering they're the National HOMOCIDE Service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    The people that have lost everything they've ever worked for are nothing in comparison to the ICU staff that had to fulfill ICU duties.
    You're an absolute disgrace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    This is such public sector attitude.

    If my workload was dramatically increased (and the company was making loads of money) then yes I would.


    You wouldn't give a single fuck how much your company was making when you considered whether you wanted a pay rise unless you owned it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    You wouldn't give a single fuck how much your company was making when you considered whether you wanted a pay rise unless you owned it.
    Yeah I'd go elsewhere then.

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    There is an argument to be made that Nurses should earn more money. Same goes for Care Workers and Teachers. They perform important roles in society and in a fair world would out earn most of us.

    The issue is using Covid as an excuse to demand a payrise when the reality is, as shit as it must have been, they are doing their job. It's not as if they've been conscripted. They literally trained to do it whilst being fully aware of the wage.

    Magic had it right (stopped clock), with Jimmy in the Spring he was doing his whole teams work whilst the rest were off on Furlough and his boss was coining it off of his hard work. That deserves a raise. Redistribute the profit. The NHS are losing money hand over fist. There's no profiting for the NHS in a pandemic.
    Last edited by Spikey M; 05-03-2021 at 10:07 AM.

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    There's no point having this discussion here. You just have absolutely zero comprehension what it's like working in healthcare and what it's been like for people like ITU nurses who've borne the brunt of the pandemic.

    It makes you feel good to sit around being smug about whining public sector workers so good for you, have at it.

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    Solid victory, wp lads.

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    5 people have the Russian variant got me thinking has Tony Abbott threatened to shirt front Putin while working for Boris?

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    I have literally never heard of a Russian VARIANT. What does this one bring to the party?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I have literally never heard of a Russian VARIANT. What does this one bring to the party?
    Nothing just 5 of em in North QLD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Queenslander View Post
    Nothing just 5 of em in North QLD.
    Oh for fuck sake. They could atleast cross-breed it with Anthrax in one of their dodgy labs or something. They're going soft.

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    Juicy first headline of the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey
    Magic had it right (stopped clock), with Jimmy in the Spring he was doing his whole teams work whilst the rest were off on Furlough and his boss was coining it off of his hard work. That deserves a raise. Redistribute the profit. The NHS are losing money hand over fist. There's no profiting for the NHS in a pandemic
    This is a spectacularly dumb argument. The NHS isn't a money-making organisation, that's not how its success is measured. There's no profiting for the NHS ever under any circumstances.

    You can privatise it, pay a lot more for it and then pay me a fuck load more to not treat you because your insurance doesn't cover what you need if that would make you feel better.

    If you work for a private company and make your Korean overlords a few extra quid by covering for colleagues you deserve a raise, but if you save a few hundred lives by doing the work of six nurses on ITU you don't because your organisation didn't make any money off it.

    Perhaps we should start docking nurses wages for looking after anyone who isn't at work given their survival will be a net monetary loss to society.
    Last edited by randomlegend; 05-03-2021 at 10:23 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    This is a spectacularly dumb argument. The NHS isn't a money-making organisation, that's not how its success is measured. There's no profiting for the NHS ever under any circumstances.

    You can privatise it, pay a lot more for it and then pay me a fuck load more to not treat you because your insurance doesn't cover what you need if that would make you feel better
    This is a spectacularly dumb response.

    The point is "hard work" is not the barometer of pay rises. In the private sector, the barometer is 'performance' I.e, how much profit you generate. In the public sector the barometer is 'do we have any money left over'. To which the answer is no, and always will be.

    As I said, Nurses SOULD earn more, but not "because it's been a really hard year". That, as you're fond of saying, is the mindset of a toddler.

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    The barometer in the public sector should equally be performance, and some people in the NHS have performed unbelievably this year. If everyone has to pay some extra tax to fund that then that's fine by me, given they've all benefited.

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