to be fed up of hearing 'I've worked hard for my money'

Well when my friend got chased with a knife the first time she was a registrar and was 7 months pregnant. She very nearly lost her own child due to the attack. Don’t belittle the work other people do based on your experience! It is really in poor taste!

Tell me when this has happened.

Policy and management are the problem.

Force people into work when they are not qualified, work then to the bone for less than they need to live a stable life, and more mistakes will be made. That is not the fault of the person who has no say in policy or management. It's batshit to blame a minimum wage employee for a major fault in the system!

People aren't your slaves!

But you can afford a tax increase of less than 1% to safe guard our economy and the vulnerable in society I'm sure
If this was the answer, these posts wouldn't exist. However, that's not what happens. The richer pay more in tax, and the number of people clarified vulnerable increases at an alarming rate every year whilst he economy moves in the other direction as quickly. The NHS, education, social care get closer to collapsing...

Role out a few years later and the solution...why can't the rich just pay 1% more...

Yes, but those doctors are not on the "shop floor" as it were. The low paid HCAs are, and are at a more real threat of violence then the consultant who wafts onto the ward a few times a week for ward rounds in the comfort of an office surrounded by several other staff.

Well done! And thankyou!
I think you probably deserve it.

But you can afford a tax increase of less than 1% to safe guard our economy and the vulnerable in society I'm sure.

they will be consultant psychiatrists with a lot of responsibilities on their shoulders

they work as a team other staff have responsibility too and will also be vulnerable to attacks but ultimately the consultant psychiatrist will have the most responsibility

Who has actually taken the fall for any disasters recently? Let alone a salary decrease
There will be many higher paid managers who will have taken most of the shit. The very high ones...well they do lose all credibility with the public, will not be able to go out without being shouted out or worse spit at. There are blamed for everything...yet in all likelihood, a lot of the errors will have been caused by lower paid people who will just keep going with their job or just get another one.

Well frankly OP, I am sick to death of being told I dont deserve the salary I have.

My job is niche and I studied for years and years to be able to do it. Carers are most certainly wonderful people and deserve better pay but they did not study for over 10 years to be able to do their job as someone like me has. I am not saying this makes me a better person btw, I am saying this is why I deserve the pay I get.

Its not just about working hard, its about the time and investment you have put in to learn the skills of what you do and if you charge more its because you are charging for that time and investment which enables you to do the job that few other people can. Is that really so difficult to grasp?

Wang on about it all you like but I know exactly what I am worth and I refuse to feel guilty about it.

Has anyone said that?

Did you just get quietly brushed aside in your sector then?

Very clearly, you work in the public sector not in the private.

Absolutely!

Anyone in any authority has evaded blame for failings for decades.

Psychiatrists are doctors so yes they are paid that much at consultant level. And she works in CAMHS. Honestly the stories I have heard, I don’t know how she does the job. The money is good but it messes with your mind and some of the kids are really ill.

I would say there are more people on lower salaries at risk of violence in their jobs han those over 100k.
Police, paramedics, fire service, carers for people with mental health difficulties, prison officers, behaviour school teachers ( in fact just teachers), a&e nurses... The list goes on!

No, no but people in the low paid jobs like retail are.

Risk?!

Don't make me laugh.

Apparently with great wages come great responsibility.

Who has actually taken the fall for any disasters recently? Let alone a salary decrease.

The most that has happened is they've had their name in the papers and moved overseas

Ppe
Post office
Shit in sea
Grenfell
Windrush.
Social services.
And many many more

There is no accountability, so that does not justify high wages

I saw some comments on a thread where someone who had only ever managed to be a cleaner in a hospital was absolutely berated for "not trying hard enough to progress". Some cunt of a poster was telling her that she was still just a cleaner because she had an attitude problem, and she should had been promoted to supervisor years before. The cleaner said she was bullied by her colleagues and manager, plus she was autistic and lacked the skills to be a supervisor. She still got shit. It was awful to see.
Besides that, there is not always a job to progress to anyway. If you clean offices and are the only cleaner there, where are you going to go?

@AntiHop , true there's the risk of making a wrong professional judgement, as there is for everyone, but the employer paying their salary is not going bust without notice. That really happens in the private sector.

Are most people on under £100K under threat of violence?

I hear you @DIL2025 these are all
sacrifices for having to put the work first, some unfair, unreasonable, cruel even. But they are not limited to high earners. It’s that question that I am struggling for an answer to, when people get defensive and use that phrase ‘I sacrificed so much to get this’ I’m not understanding what they are that’s different for people on median incomes.

I'm just so sick of the attitude where everyone's just out for themselves
Thays sadly true, but if you think the richer should share even more of what they've acquired, what do you give back?

If you're a SAHM, would you offer your time to look after their child for free during the holidays whilst you have the time to look after your home?

I bet that wouldn't cross any SAHM claiming UC to do so....

So before moaning about how selfish the rich are not wanting to share their wealth, maybe start considering how you could share yours (ie. time) towards your community.

Well God helps those who help themselves! There is such a huge sense of entitlement here with regards to other people’s wealth and such poor work ethic. I have lived in the Middle East, Singapore, India and never seen this attitude there. There everyone wants to be better and works towards that by improving themselves, studying more, getting further qualifications etc. Here everyone is so jealous if they hear someone’s parents or family helped them. I find this very strange culturally as in Asia people help family, education is stressed upon and work ethic is phenomenal! Here the expectation is the government should provide so people can relax and not work, and grumble that other people are rich and generations do this!

Not everyone has the opportunity for this economic mobility

there is massive social inequality of opportunity

you can’t work your way out of it