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13 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:
My Mrs in the private sector has a meeting every year to negotiate her pay rise, she always used to get around 5-7%… hence the notion the private sector has better pay etc.
You can’t negotiate your pay in the public sector, it’s all banded.
I think your Mrs might be on the higher end of the delta.
My base salary has increased by 20% over the past 10 years which implies an average annual rise of 1.5%
That's despite working for a company that regularly ranks among the top employers to work for in the UK.
I also experienced the loss of a shift premium which originally added ~23% to my base salary.
There is no facility to negotiate - the pay scales are banded too.
Hence I'm a little bit cynical about the idea of contributing to 10%+ pay rises for nurses, many of whom will be earning more than I do already.
Maybe not applicable to doctors and nurses etc but I suspect many public sector employees would struggle to earn anything like their current package in the private sector. -
12 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:
Very sorry for your loss 😞Seconded
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2 hours ago, oowee said:
On the contrary. They could not possibly know at the start of training that the salary would fall 30%. over the course of training. If they had then they may have chosen a different career.
As it is the poor salary relative to training is likely to result in poor retention.
I'm struggling to see a 30% fall in doctor's salaries in this graphic...
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I thought this article has some interesting insights:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/the-nhs-from-vocational-calling-to-common-purpose -
7 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:
The real issue is not that they may look to another field … it’s that they are highly skilled and sought after professionals who may look to another country.
People say if nurses don’t like the pay and conditions they should leave … well lots of them have … they’ve gone to Canada, USA, New Zealand, Australia as well as other places.
Doctors obviously do the same.
I suspect many who move abroad do so for lifestyle reasons and would continue to do so even if UK salaries were on a par with their chosen destinations.
Ironically experienced doctors are motivated to retire early when their high salaries mean their pension pots reach the £1,073,100 LTA limit.
Maybe we could mitigate this by reducing their salaries 🙃https://www.wesleyan.co.uk/insights/2022/09/doctors-leave-nhs
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One little ray of hope: "Our governments should work together..."
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12 hours ago, scobydog said:
Well don't do the training and choose another career then.
The problem there is if the reason "Pay has fallen 30% in real terms in 10 years apparently" is pay rises have not kept pace with inflation over the past 10 years, they might just struggle to find another field of endeavour where that is not also the case. Remember the economy was still trying to recover from the 2008 crash for a good chunk of that time and then there was the Covid response. Of course medics are paid from the public purse so the normal rules of economics shouldn't apply to them...
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17 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:
What temperature is this room?
What do you class as Baltic?
I'm in central Scotland and it's getting down to -2C at night outside and probably a few degrees above that where he is.
So yes, describing it as Baltic is a bit hyperbolic 🙃
Thanks guys for all the comments.
And, beautiful looking dogs Dave 👍 -
My lab sleeps in a room off the kitchen and it gets pretty Baltic in there just now when the heating goes off at night.
Was feeling guilty last night all cosy under my duvet so I went down and threw a fluffy blanket over him, but he was lying on top of it this morning.
(probably been humping it during the night...)
I let him out and he went straight to rolling about on the frosty grass - not something I'd want to do if I was feeling cold.
So just wondering about dog's tolerance for cold in general, what can they actually take before they start feeling miserable? -
I think the operative word in your question is "happy".
An older dog can have physical limitations but still enjoy life, even if that just amounts to going shorter walks with you and lying around watching the world go by.
But if she stops eating and refuses to go walks and generally looks miserable, it's probably time.
When the time came for my last dog I had the vet come to the house and would recommend that as better for the dog and you.
As I recall it was not extravagantly expensive, maybe around £100, and some insurance policies will cover for that - I think mine did. -
Webley Junior confiscated by my parents - never found out what happened to that.
Honda 400/4 supersport. Tried to sell it to a dealer for £350 and was turned down - too many little things wrong with it, would have to be a scrapper £175. Gave it to my dad who rebuilt it and rode it until he developed MND, at which point he sold it to a workmate. Some now fetching 5k plus on ebay.
I find it hard to part with vintage camera stuff, particulary large-format lenses - these have a beauty and mystique in themselves. -
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/notes-from-the-sticks-the-rabbit-pandemic/
As a child I always enjoyed spotting rabbits by the roadside when we drove through the countryside at night.
I don't recall ever seeing a deer.
Now I see deer all the time, even in the park in the middle of my town, but rarely a rabbit.
Quite sad really. -
4 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:
It is true that a friend suffered a clot after taking the vaccine.
It is true that he was told by a doctor/the hospital that it was probably vaccine related.
There is NO conspiracy in that. Simply facts. Facts known to me directly from the person affected.
Please explain how that makes me "a spreader of conspiracy nonsense"?
Ask Ordnance...
"...according to Ordnance"
If he agrees posting "simply facts" does not automatically constitute conspiracy nonsense we can have an interesting and meaningful discussion around how vaccine zealots apply their criteria to emerging data. -
On 29/10/2022 at 20:32, ordnance said:
It's pointless trying to convince someone that believes conspiracy nonsense that they are wrong, so I am not going to try. It wouldn't matter what I posted you are determined to convince others you are on to something they don't know, a well know trate in people that believe conspiracies.
You assert without evidence that I believe in conspiracy theories - I do not.
I do not recall ever posting anything speculating on whether there was a covert group or secret plot behind covid 19 or the vaccine rollout. As the saying goes "never attribute to conspiracy that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".
It does not require belief in covert groups or secret plans to recognise there are genuine negative outcomes from the covid jab, and to believe these should be quantified and qualified.You, on the other hand, manifestly believe there is a worldwide movement involving government agencies, research establishments, otherwise reputable doctors and scientists - and even Pfizer - to publish vast amounts of fabricated and misleading information in an attempt to inhibit take-up of the "safe and effective" vaccine.
That makes you the actual conspiracy theorist, not me.
On 29/10/2022 at 20:49, JohnfromUK said:/\ This.
That's hilarious!
A few posts ago you stated a friend of yours suffered a blood clot which his doctor acknowledged was caused by the vaccine. That makes you a spreader of conspiracy nonsense, and this forum part of the twilight zone of the internet according to Ordnance. Yet here you are agreeing with him.
It seems critical thinking skills are in short supply all round when it comes to vaccine zealots. -
18 hours ago, ordnance said:
You are scraping the bottom of the barrel, Oracleflims Well know spreaders of antivax conspiracy nonsense 🥱
Says you - well known regurgitator of general delusional nonsense.
If you actually want to contribute to the conversation, make a reasoned attempt to refute some of the testimonies and data presented in the film.
Gordon seems to think you are capable of such a trivial intellectual exercise.
Do it for his sake, don't let him down, he'll get so upset. 😭😭😭 -
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2 hours ago, Penelope said:
Trying to buy the current student vote is one, rallying to the abortion argument another. Neither will work, I hope.
They've been banging the drum about those for ages but are still going to get slaughtered according to the polls. It will have to be more direct than that.
Since Dems like mail-in ballots and early voting, whereas Republicans, especially MAGA folks, prefer to vote in person on the day, look out for large scale disruption at Republican leaning precincts.
"Oops so many voters have turned up that we seem to have run out of paper and ink for the printers so we can't print any more ballots. We've sent an urgent message to the paper mill to make some more of that special paper for us and we're scouring the country for A5342A printer cartridges but there seems to be a national shortage of those at the moment. Oops, the polls are now closed, so sorry you had to wait all this time for nothing..." -
6 hours ago, Penelope said:
I can't see that happening. They will lose heavily in the mid terms, I suspect.
No doubt they have a "plan".
Can't see them just handing over the reigns of power and walking away. -
14 hours ago, ordnance said:
I can post a link to people who think the world is flat, it's on the net so it must be true.
As I suspected, you really are a sociopath - you need help.
By the way: "the vaccines are safe and effective" == "the world is flat"
Let's see you disprove that statement since you're so sure you have a corner on all truth.
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15 hours ago, ordnance said:
the rest is just more conspiracy nonsense.
Anyone who can dismiss what happened to 12 year old Pfizer Covid Vaccine Trial participant (victim) Maddie De Garay as conspiracy nonsense is morally bankrupt.
https://odysee.com/@EvidenceOfTruth:4/maddie:39
https://odysee.com/@EndYourSlavery:8/Rigged-Pfizer-Trial-Hid-Injuries,-Maddie's-Story:6
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On 22/10/2022 at 19:07, ordnance said:
I am not opposing serious peer review evidence on the Covid vaccines, I am opposing nonsense posted by internet experts with no credibility.
You need to keep quiet then 🤔
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6 hours ago, Gordon R said:
I believe that ordnance has made sensible posts.
They don't appear to be made by a patronising idiot, who has no time for a contrary view.
Appearances can be so deceptive 😜😜😜
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On 22/10/2022 at 19:07, ordnance said:
I am not opposing serious peer review evidence on the Covid vaccines, I am opposing nonsense posted by internet experts with no credibility.
Strangely enough you've never presented a credible response to anything I've posted.
On the rare occasions you tried you just made a fool of yourself,
So now you just resort to name-calling which is a tell you've lost the argument, and you know it. -
14 hours ago, ordnance said:
The harm caused might be unequivocal in your head, but not in reality.
This is a statement of "fact", which implies you think you have superior knowledge about "reality" than the rest of us...
13 hours ago, ordnance said:No I am not in any more a position of knowledge than the rest on the form, that's why I am not posting trying to put people off getting a vaccine, or trying to convince them to get one.
Deny it all you like, but by opposing the dissemination of information contrary to your own beliefs you are trying to steer others away from refusing the jab and towards getting it.
14 hours ago, ordnance said:The harm caused might be unequivocal in your head, but not in reality.
This is a statement of "fact", which implies you think you have superior knowledge about "reality" than the rest of us...
Nurse's not on strike?
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It's actually nothing to do with historical pay rates:
https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/things-know-youre-junior-doctor/
Junior doctors are facing a pay cut of up to 30%
The proposed contracts would increase doctors’ base pay for standard hours (currently 7am-7pm Monday-Friday), but also decrease the rate doctors are paid for working anti-social hours, such as night shifts and weekends – an overall pay cut that could be as much as 30%.