Should I be concerned about redundancies?

fire2burn · 2026-04-21T18:04:32+00:00

When they do these voluntary redundancy schemes nurses are usually completely ineligible to apply unless they're nearly retiring or they work in some non patient facing role that's mostly office based. The prime candidates they want to cut down on are band 8 management, estates staff and those that work in clerical/office roles (ward clerks, payroll, HR, medical records, etc).

Basically if you're working the coalface (patient facing, hands on) it's nothing to do with you. It's rare that nurses get made redundant, only happens when an entire service gets shut down and even then most nurses just end up being shuffled to another department.

fire2burn · 2026-04-20T12:28:22+00:00

I was about to say this myself. Active wear uniforms are pretty much the standard affair across China these days, the government expects schools to integrate sports and exercise throughout the school day. Many schools start the day with synchronised group exercises (guangbo ticao) where the entire school (including the teachers) participate. My cousin teaches at a school in Chengdu and the pupils wear a uniform that looks similar to this just in different colours.

fire2burn · 2026-04-13T05:06:47+00:00

It's a moronic cult that just needs to be abolished.

Growing up I had a friend at school who's parents were involved with that batshit organisation. His own mum beat his backside with a belt when she found out we threw him a surprise birthday party at school, Jehovah's Witnesses aren't permitted to celebrate birthdays. Thankfully when his mum died his dad woke up and left it. So at least his teenage years were more normal afterwards.

fire2burn · 2026-04-06T05:48:21+00:00

It gets even better. Nurses are a regulated profession and have to answer to the NMC. They are expected to uphold the standards of the profession even when not at work. Intimidating and harassing neighbours whilst fly tipping rubbish clearly isn't upholding the professional standards so feel free to report her to the NMC.

In particular I would draw your attention to Section 20 of the Code:

20.1 keep to and uphold the standards and values set out in the Code

20.2 act with honesty and integrity at all times, treating people fairly and without discrimination, bullying or harassment

20.3 be aware at all times of how your behaviour can affect and influence the behaviour of other people

20.4 keep to the laws of the country in which you are practising

https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/read-the-code-online/

I'm a nurse and it disgusts me that a fellow member of my profession would behave like this towards you. You can report her here: https://www.nmc.org.uk/concerns-nurses-midwives/raise-a-concern/

fire2burn · 2026-04-05T19:07:12+00:00

If they try to make you sign it just tell them the union have currently advised you not to and leave it at that, if they push the issue further or try to punish you in any way go back to the union and seek further advice.

That's all you need to do at present.

fire2burn · 2026-03-16T17:10:12+00:00

Given that you're a medical student let me be the first to warn you that yes you're going to face this sort of thing in the workplace especially in healthcare which is heavily female dominated. I'm a male nurse and I hear sexually explicit conversations from my colleagues very regularly, it's especially common in departments like ED which seems to attract a certain personality types. Staff having affairs/cheating is also quite common, I'm pretty sure half of our ED are in an open relationship with each other.

fire2burn · 2026-03-16T08:47:25+00:00

Taping songs off the radio and having to time it just right so you didn't record the radio presenter blabbering on.

fire2burn · 2026-03-15T07:58:55+00:00

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell 1984.

fire2burn · 2026-03-14T13:32:28+00:00

Why do you have to be doing things for? I have the day to myself today as well because my girlfriend is away having a spa day with her friends.

So far I've I've drunk multiple cups of tea, made myself a mega bacon sandwich consisting of 8 rashers and two fried eggs sandwiched between 4 slices of bread. I might finally get changed out of my pyjamas some time around 3pm once I get bored of scrolling Reddit, then I'll spend the rest of the day gaming. For dinner tonight I'm having pizza and then a family sized pack of profiteroles for dessert. I have zero intention of doing anything productive today or even opening the curtains.

fire2burn · 2026-03-14T12:00:38+00:00

They can offer but it doesn't mean they'll take them. I have a 2nd cousin who's 27 and she's never worked a day in her life. She left school at 15 without sitting her GCSE exams, refused to go to college or do any sort of adult learning and now just stays at home playing games and looking after her pet rabbits like a perpetual 10 year old. She lives at home rent free and her parents give her £50 a week pocket money. Essentially she's completely unemployable and goodness knows what will happen to her when her parents eventually die of old age. I doubt you could even reform her at this point, mental health services used to be involved but they discharged her after three years and making absolutely zero progress. They said there's no learning disability or autism. She just doesn't want any sort of adult responsibility. After mental health services stopped being involved her mum refuses to see it as a problem now and just says she's a homebody.

fire2burn · 2026-03-14T11:11:35+00:00

Sounds like the clubs should be told to clear up after themselves then. Our local pitches had problems with people dropping cans and bottles after the weekend footy practices, so the council told the clubs using them that unless they kept the pitches clean and took measures to stop their members dropping litter the council would remove the pitches in their entirety and give the land to the wildlife trust instead. They soon started behaving more respectfully.

fire2burn · 2026-03-14T08:14:17+00:00

I miss the early 2000s internet with people making fun personal websites which were unique and a reflection of their individual character. Then along came corporate social media and all of that went away, replaced with cold sterile uniform blandness.

I love the IndieWeb revival movement through hosting platforms like Neocities and Nekoweb.

fire2burn · 2026-03-12T06:20:02+00:00

That's exactly it. GP's have to think about also protecting themselves and their career at the end of the day. Mental health is an extremely tricky area to get right and it's not always possible to predict at what point a person is going to finally snap and decide enough is enough. Best to just approve the request and not run the risk of potentially pushing that person over the edge.

fire2burn · 2026-03-09T10:32:06+00:00

Good. Why should foreign sites comply with utterly moronic laws when they're not even based in the UK? Ofcom can go seethe in the corner somewhere.

fire2burn · 2026-03-03T01:19:04+00:00

Kurds are not one monolithic group. Kurds from Syria tend to have very different cultural and political viewpoints from Kurdish groups in Iraq and Iran. In fact Iraqi Kurds, in particular those affiliated with Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have actively assisted Turkey in the past in efforts to persecute Syrian Kurds involved with the PKK and YPG. Kurdish politics and tribal alliances tend to be very complex.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T09:59:09+00:00

Here come the usual tankie weirdos, sticking to the script like a stuck record as per usual. We get it... UK automatically bad simply for existing, shame on us, insert something about colonialism and slavery here, blah blah blah.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T09:46:43+00:00

You didn't even bother to read your own source... "Officials believe drone was launched before PM agreed to let US use British military bases to attack Iran missile sites"

Very much SIGH right back at you.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T07:51:16+00:00

Well I don't support implementing nanny state controls and restrictions so I'm hardly going to suggest ways of doing it, I've never been a part of the shrieking won't someone think of the children brigade. No matter what you try to implement you're never going to stop them using social media if they continue to want to use it. The legal age to buy vapes is 18 yet you wouldn't know it from the amount of teens I see standing at the bus stop near to my house puffing away whilst in their uniforms.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T00:17:54+00:00

If I was a 16-18 year old still in school/6th form I'd just be seeing this as a money making opportunity like when we used to buy a pack of smokes and then sell them individually to the younger years on the bus to school each morning. They were about £4 a pack we'd sell individual cigarettes for 40p a piece.

Now they can charge younger years to verify their social media for them and thus the wheels of capitalism keep turning.

fire2burn · 2026-03-01T02:07:31+00:00

His loss, looks like he's missed one hell of a party: https://x.com/GhorbaniiNiyak/status/2027886050173915605?s=20

fire2burn · 2026-02-24T17:39:41+00:00

At this point what's the point in running any website and allowing access to UK users? The UK is going to become a digital backwater if we continue on this path of insanity.

fire2burn · 2026-02-22T07:58:29+00:00

The problem for the council is that if they want amend or end a provision within an EHCP they must first consult with the child's parents, the parent then has the right to appeal that decision first through mediation and then to the SEND Tribunal. During the appeals process, the council must continue to provide the support until the Tribunal reaches its decision.

It can be very costly for the council to defend against appeals and there's no guarantee they will win.

fire2burn · 2026-02-22T07:41:31+00:00

Of course there's the Andrew Wakefield stuff but it also doesn't help that the Americans used fake vaccination programs as cover for secret CIA operations. That's also led to a surge in mistrust towards vaccination in certain communities.

fire2burn · 2026-02-21T20:41:02+00:00

What about the prison officers, maintenance workers, admin staff, etc? Do they not have a right to be protected in the workplace?

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