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Social Research Interviewing
I worked for a government sponsored social reseach organisation; a well-respected one whose reports grace many institutions’ bookshelves. The survey interviews I was doing were for the NHS and He...
Agency teaching special needs primary children
Not a lot to this one, but it was in my list, so write it I will! The school was a new one set up to work with children with a range of disabilities, although the majority were on the autistic sp...
The flip side of yesterday
If you read my yesterday’s rant, you’ll have worked out that I now work for a charity that supports unpaid family carers. Today, a lady phoned the office. She is looking after her friend’s fianc...
The system is failing people / bit of a rant
Our country’s health and social care system is absolutely going to pot - and the pot’s cracked and broken beyond repair. Today, I spoke with a carer - this is an unpaid family carer - who is look...
Signing on for Job Seeker's Allowance
Not my favourite experience of the year. To get £70 per week for up to six months, I had to visit the office every fortnight, show evidence of having job searched every day and declare the colou...
Taking a Project Management qualification
Not much to this really, but I am determined to follow up all that’s in the list on my horribleness entry, I left the local authority on 14 January 2016. However, before I left I had applied to ...
The title says it all really. The previous restructure in 2013 saw me and other engagement professionals be placed within organisational intelligence. Not a good fit as although some of our wo...
18 months of horribleness
18 months ago, we learned of another restructure at work. Not unexpected really, as I worked in a local authority and they were, and still are, having to cut spending by stupid amounts. I didn’...
World Cup
Like lots of offices, we have a sweepstake at work in our team. I drew England. My until-recently-boss drew Brazil. She, who knows nothing about football, said, "Oh, just my luck, I wanted Eng...
Cut in half
Today, my boss’s boss called us out one by one. The team is being split – those of us who work on aspects of engagement and involvement to do with social care (in other words, statutory work) wi...
Some people will do ANYTHING
to get some time off work. Take one colleague. She is 23 and two years ago often had Mondays off work sick with a severe hangover. This clearly wasn't enough time to herself, so she became pre...
Book Description
A self-indulgence. Not a blog about what a wonderful job I’m doing and how I’m undervalued and how I deserve far more than I get paid. Although naturally, all those things are true too. No, instead, this is a place for me to file oft-politically incorrect opinions (some of which may even be valid) on work related issues and to record things that are going on at work.
Health warning: accuracy and truthfulness not guaranteed, although the flavour should remain fairly true. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is purely accidental - or might be....
