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    Working with the Mrs, foiling dreams again.

    My department got anally reamed by Covid (had to smash the first few months implementing a reactionary timetable) and our reward has been no pay rise for 2 years

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    Lofty why didn't you just become a train driver? It sounds like a right scam.

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    They would never admit it but there was strong suggestion off the record I was too tall.

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    Can't they put the seat down a bit?

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    Yeah it's not a fighter jet you big mong.

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    The seat in a lot of older rolling stock is fixed to the bulkhead so it isn't very adjustable. There was an interview I had where a lot of people were shocked and there was a strong suspicion I had been nobbled: I was the only one not to progress and my interview was less than half the length of everyone else's. A friend in the union was up for pushing it but I was looking to relocate anyway.

    I'm over the shifts to be honest. When you caught 4 4am or earlier shifts in a row it was a killer. Also I think the only ones who really enjoy it are the enthusiasts who love the whole thing anyway. By all accounts it's pretty boring and comes down to sustained concentration, I know a lot of people who went driving fairly young and are bored but can't leave now as they can't take the salary hit.

    One of my major issues with that side of stuff was getting leave granted too, was an extremely contentious issue all round. At least in my role now I never have that issue and usually have the ability to choose my hours etc. We have just seemed to have gone under the cosh in March 2020 and never had any let up since, for various reasons.

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    They could've put a sunroof in and given you a pair of goggles.

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    Loftys main problem in life is his refusal to bully. Chokeslam a few suits and he'd be driving the world's first tripple decker train within a fortnight.

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    What you're saying here is to pass the interview, you needed your chair to be miles away from the interviewer. Social distancing could've done you a real favour. If only they needed drivers during the leanest timetables of the pandemic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    What you're saying here is to pass the interview, you needed your chair to be miles away from the interviewer. Social distancing could've done you a real favour. If only they needed drivers during the leanest timetables of the pandemic.
    On a related note, back in April my manager offered a job to a woman after a Zoom interview who promptly informed him that she was about to drop and thanks for the maternity leave. Unlucky, sweetheart, you don't start work until your clearances pass. She then mysteriously turned the job down.

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    Surely she would have had to work 6 months to qualify for that anyway? We had a pilot apply in our team but rebuffed him. They took another one on in a different office, lo and behold restrictions ease and he's fucked it off to go flying again, who could have predicted that.

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    I think she was already in the department or re-deployment pool or whatever.

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    The patriarchy fails our sisters once again.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    They would never admit it but there was strong suggestion off the record I was too tall.
    Come move to Europe. We have plenty of double-decker trains to transport giant Dutch people around here

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    On a related note, back in April my manager offered a job to a woman after a Zoom interview who promptly informed him that she was about to drop and thanks for the maternity leave. Unlucky, sweetheart, you don't start work until your clearances pass. She then mysteriously turned the job down.
    Someone posted in a Facebook group I read that they're currently in the early stages of being sued because he sacked someone who was shit after 1 month on the job. The woman is claiming it's because she was pregnant. He had no idea - she hadn't told anyone there, and he just assumed she was fat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    Come move to Europe. We have plenty of double-decker trains to transport giant Dutch people around here
    My first train stateside was a double-decker.

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    £18 spent on lunch today. Fuck all collaboration or value gained from office presence. So mindless

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    I said I’d go in every Wednesday but I forgot to book it today so fuck it.

    Waste of time with my team lead on annual leave anyway.

    Must be terrible running a business right now. I don’t think anyone gives a shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    £18 spent on lunch today. Fuck all collaboration or value gained from office presence. So mindless
    My man went and got himself a fucking Pret sandwich and salad instead of supporting his brother Alireza and paying £6 for a Koobideh combo that would fill his scrawny body until Friday. You hate to see it.

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    £18 for a lunch you can't taste?

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    Pack a sandwich you silly cunt.

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    This is the problem with your office being based in downtown Dubai. All the Alirezas have been given a state suit and tie and think serving the white man for £11 p/h is a respectable life. Makes you sick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Pack a sandwich you silly cunt.
    I take in pasta normally, you fuck. I thought the first proper day back warranted a social lunch.

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    Sandwich? This isn't The Blitz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    This isn't The Blitz.
    Don't tell the gammons that.

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    Been in to actual meetings these past two days. First one was annoying cos I turned up and opened my laptop to send some emails while the room filled up and then about 6 people dialled in remotely via Teams, so I could have done that. Then we went round doing introductions, including myself, and then bloke chairing it was like 'and now those remoting in, first it's [me]' so I quickly interrupted with 'I'm already here, I just introduced myself.' Dickhead. He tried to palm it off by joking it was the first meeting he's chaired where he's not wearing pyjamas but it's too late, he's on my shitlist.

    They also had these weird Perspex screens on every desk, separating everyone. Except they were only the width of the table (we were sat in like a big horseshoe shape, with a desk each but all connected) so when I was talking to the bloke next to me about our roles, there was no screen between us. Very 'token gesture' waste of money.

    Todays meeting was better cos, well, this happened:

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    That can't be the first time you've made that choice.

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    Wear a complete suit of it. Full camo

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    Are the socks made of carpet or is the carpet made of socks?

    It'll be the new pit / crater, I tells ya.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    Wear a complete suit of it. Full camo
    Please make it happen, Baz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    That can't be the first time you've made that choice.
    Was the first time I’d ever been in that building.
    I'm a twit

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    Sock banter aside, the colour combination of trouser & shoe should see you executed.

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    We're getting completely overwhelmed again at the moment. We had children waiting in the corridor for beds tonight as literally every bed (+ rooms which aren't usually used for patients) was full. I've never seen that before

    Someone's going to die at some point.

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    In a hospital? You don't say!

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    Is it linked to Novid/Lurgy or is it just because googling symptoms on NHS website isn't fixing people?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    In a hospital? You don't say!
    We're not an A and E, we're an assessment unit. Kids who make it to us have already been seen by another medical professional and felt to be unwell enough to need to go to hospital (which isn't necessarily always the case, but still). They aren't kids with grazed knees and shouldn't be sitting in a corridor waiting for beds.

    It's not common at all for this to be happening in this kind of setting (I've never seen it), especially not in Paediatrics. It's incredibly unsafe.
    Last edited by randomlegend; 13-10-2021 at 09:30 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Is it linked to Novid/Lurgy or is it just because googling symptoms on NHS website isn't fixing people?
    It's mostly that all the viral illnesses that make kids unwell (not covid) didn't spread last year because of lockdown, so now they are back with a vengeance. Our numbers of sick babies with bronchiolitis requiring high dependency care are what they would usually be in the depths of winter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    We're not an A and E, we're an assessment unit. Kids who make it to us have already been seen by another medical professional and felt to be unwell enough to need to go to hospital (which isn't necessarily always the case, but still). They aren't kids with grazed knees.

    It's not common at all for this to be happening in this kind of setting (I've never seen it), especially not in Paediatrics. It's incredibly unsafe.
    Are you getting alot of kids that have "seen" a GP via the medium of a chat over the phone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    It's mostly that all the viral illnesses that make kids unwell (not covid) didn't spread last year because of lockdown, so now they are back with a vengeance. Our numbers of sick babies with bronchiolitis requiring high dependency care are what they would usually be in the depths of winter.
    My daughters school and my sons nursery are brutal at the moment. Absolutely everyone is ill. Vomiting viruses seem to be highly fashionable right now. We are fortunately behind the times for now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Are you getting alot of kids that have "seen" a GP via the medium of a chat over the phone?
    Yes, and a lot of babies who're being referred in by midwives with feeding issues/weight loss who haven't actually seen the baby. It's...poor.

    It's like everyone else can just throw their hands up and cry "covid" and avoid a certain proportion of their work load, but we are the last line of defence so everything they shirk falls on us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Yes, and a lot of babies who're being referred in by midwives with feeding issues/weight loss who haven't actually seen the baby. It's...poor.

    It's like everyone else can just throw their hands up and cry "covid" and avoid a certain proportion of their work load, but we are the last line of defence so everything they shirk falls on us.
    It's one of the main areas we're going to look back on and wonder what the fuck we were playing at. It's mental.

    Shit like this:



    But atleast you didn't get Covid, Nick lad. I'd be out for blood if this shit had happened to me.

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    Never mind I misheard that on first listen.

    Even then I doubt "several weeks" is enough time to have elapsed for anyone to tell him it was the reason his cancer was inoperable. It's just not something a medical professional would say (unless the delay was something genuinely egregious like a year).
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    We obviously don't have the timeline, but he had the antibiotics for a week, saw it was getting worse 6 weeks later, then had to wait for the referral. I don't know how long that took, but we're looking at 7 weeks even if everything was immediate.

    That said, isn't "a rash around a mole" a "proceed straight to hospital, do not Pass Go, do not collect £200"? So maybe the GP would have made the same mistake in person.

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    Yeah, any changes around a mole would trigger alarm bells.

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    Yeah, IDK, it's hard without knowing all the details of the case. I just seriously doubt any doctor has told him that the delay is the reason his cancer is inoperable, as he's said they did.

    Dermatologists I think do a fair amount of stuff via images nowadays, but a GP deeming a dodgy mole as fine from a picture is beyond brave IMO.

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    Who knows. Salt to be pinched all round with these things, but there will be enough real examples of GP's missing things over the phone causing avoidable deaths.

    Who is at fault for this? Are GP's deciding to work this way? Or is it Lee's and failed Army Officers steering the ship?

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    As much as it pisses me off when I'm the one dealing with the fallout, I find it hard to really blame GPs. Essentially what has happened is pre-covid they were completely and utterly overwhelmed. Covid forced them to work in a different way - with a lot more phone appointments for example - which has given them some semblance of being able to manage the patient load. They now don't want to go back to how things were before and are clinging onto the changes covid brought about.

    The fact it's just shifted the problem elsewhere is shit but I think most people would be lying if they claim they're too virtuous to have done the same in that situation.

    There will absolutely be pressure from Practice Managers to keep working like this, regardless of whether the GPs are keen on it or not (but I'd imagine a lot of GPs are keen to keep working like this).

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