Secrets of your trade.

arkengarthdale

its the same for CBRN trained police officers. beard needs shaving off so a decent seal is created with the gas mask.
or just be a woman!

Oh and the not allowed to have a beard thing with firefighters and soldiers, it is so an airtight seal to the face can be made around the breathing apparatus masks and respirators so nasty fumes/smoke/gases can't get in. Bristles create tiny gaps but enough to kill you

@IM0GEN working with children who had suffered adoption breakdown was the most distressing period of my practice. Whilst I fully support what you say about spending more on adoption support I would want in exchange for adopters to be better screened. Wouldn't leave my dog with some of the ex adopters I've met. Removing a child from adopters via a care order isn't unusual.

And I’m so sorry that apart from about 6 cases out of the many over 6 years that have stayed with me because of their uniqueness , lovely and special that you were at the time, you have all been erased from my memory banks now
I wouldn’t know you If i passed you in the street.
☹️

Ex counsellor here also.
Worked for the big relationship charity.
Don’t think that the hour you have with us is all you get. It used to take me about an hour to write up my notes and thoughts on your sessions...don’t worry you were always anonymous
Then if I felt stuck on your case, I could go along to our fortnightly group meeting and get some help from other counsellors
And..there was always a supervisor I could speak to again if I was a bit stuck.

We also had extra training sessions throughout the year.

Why would you not have a pedicure?

I used to work as a beauty therapist. I would never have a pedicure done no matter how nice the salon looked and always wait until I've seen a staff member using a cup that customers are served before accepting an offer of tea.

I have seen some horrendous examples of hygiene standards not being followed and once saw a therapist throw the water from a pedicure bowl down the sink where cups were waiting to be washed.

@Norfolkenchancemate do weight loss pills really work then? I've often thought the ones on sale at the chemist can't just be outright lying.

I used to work for an online beauty/skincare company. We also manufactured white label products and sold on rebranded.

Price does not equal quality. Some of the most expensive creams were actually the most ineffective. There were so many times I spoke with lovely woman who were suffering with conditions like Melasma (pregancy mask) and wanted a lightening/fading product. They wouldn't listen when I warned them to a) wait until the hormones settle and b) go for the cheaper product in less fancy packaging.

A good quality product will often be less fancy to look at because the maker spent more on R&D than on marketing.

The same with anti ageing creams. At that time, to be legally allowed to call it an anti ageing cream, it had to have SPF sunblock in it! You could literally just pour sunblock, perfume and a cheap emollient into a tub and slap a £60 price tag on it calling it an anti ageing product!

Products have a lifecycle and when a product starts to decline, the maker will either reboot it or launch new marketing. A well known company that has it's brand all over will sell you the same product over and over but with new, shiny packaging and fancy meaningless names. Don't fall for sneaky tricks. Look past the shiny and read the print to get your money's worth.

Also:
Water and decent sleep cycles are better for under eye darkness than creams that are supposed to 'repair' this issue.

Stretch marks cannot be made to disappear with a cream

You won't tan like a bronze goddess by swallowing a tablet

Vitamins take time to absorb and become a help in your body. Sometimes, you need to take other vitamins or minerals to help absorption. Swallowing magic pills to get hair like Rapunzel is a waste of time. You'd be better off eating better and taking a well being mix of vitamins instead and over a long period. Companies know you will spend £30 a pop and never finish the course. Don't fall for it. Same for Aloa Vera detoxes and Magic Nail pills.

@Arnoldthecat The oven is full scrapped out (I think the bits are still quick big, the fine dust is from being ground down)

There was a very good AMA here last year by someone who does the cremations, she's lovely and treats the people just like the nurses above to do

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3264486-crematorium-technician-here

I agree with redlock i knew some one who was foster and his parents were just interested in the money theyreceived.Whenhe was 17 he was kicked out as they were no longer receiving money for his care

This is awful. My in laws are foster carers and it is not like this, they spend far more money on the dc they look after than they get. They still have some now adult ex-foster kids who come to stay and get various support from them. The foster dc are included in everything as family members.

I really am finding this thread fascinating, I just wish I had something juicy to add! I’ll get my thinking cap on

*A crematorium has to 'burn' a body within 72 hours of it coming into their possession.

Ashes are ground up by a machine which is basically a mechanical pestle and mortar. Any metal (nails, hip replacments, etc) are recycled.*

What level of separation is there between err..clients? Are you really just taking home a token gesture of ashes which could be a mix of mainly your loved one and some of the previous ones..?

I've worked loads of jobs.

Weight loss pills do work, they contain the same ingredient found in Sudafed.

We used to get men paying to use the sunbed then watching porn and wanking, and leaving their 'happy ending' on the Perspex.

Using a sunbed without using a pre designed lotion is like making tea without a tea bag, pointless and a waste of time.

Fake tan has a guide colour that is organic, this turns green after a few weeks due to oxidisation, however, if you still use it you won't go green you'll wash the green hue off as normal.

Tanning injections make your moles go black. Not good.

If you owe my company money we have a dedicated member of staff that will call and say something like 'I'm calling from XX on behalf of xx your outstanding invoice has been passed to us to deal with'

Soft serve ice cream machines are disgusting. We've found a dead mouse in one m, do not allow your children to use the ice cream bars in large chain restaurants, and avoid the soft serve mr whippy type machines.

You get sacked from a certain DWP department for offering advice if the person calling hasn't specifically mentioned said advice.

All boiler repair warranties are exactly the same and are often out sourced to 'rival' companies.

If someone leaves a property and leaves a big deficit on a utility bill all companies will usually bill previous tenants for certain amounts of the balance, 9 times in 10 they get paid.

If you complain to the owner of a hotel/apartment that you booked through a travel agent you won't get anywhere, travel agents pay between €10 and €25 per week to the owner, and charge £250-£700 if you paid for a 'upgraded room' but all rooms are the same, take it up with the travel agent not the owner.

We had a family from a European country rent our holiday home, they arrived with 6 extra people, it sleeps 8, and a tent, and then all guests used the underneath of the decked swimming pool as a toilet, and left loo roll and everything in great piles, they must have taken at least 150 plastic Barbie type dolls because we found limbs and heads and torsos for months in odd places. Weird as hell.

If you order from me on a Thursday evening and tell me, 48hr delivery, you need it urgent for the weekend, I will charge you for fast delivery and it won't usually reach you till Monday anyway.

If you rent my holiday home, steal my coat, that was packed away in a locked cupboard, and wear it in your Facebook photos I will wish an eternity of spiky shits on you.

@clairemcnam
100% agree with everything this poster said. Charities which can pay for adverts on trains, chuggers etc do not really need your money. Small organisations which never advertise and you hear about by chance REALLY need it. A small donation to them can be game changing.

@ QueenRefusnik

Good post. I too am a lecturer and love teaching. I am on an academic research contract though so the expectations on that side are often overwhelming and I know that i am far more stressed than is healthy. I give everything I have to my job and it isn't enough.

I have had some of my students fail the course and it is always awful.

I work in human rights sector, including some of the most well-known organisations. People think that if you work for a 'charideee' you are a lovely, angelic person. Not true. A very high percentage of people working in human rights advocacy are absolute arseholes. Massive bullying, superiority complexes, egos. Nasty Nasty Nasty places to work. looking at you in particular Amnesty

If you want to record an ECG from a wiggly baby you can move the left leg lead to the forehead.

There is no ‘critical list’ often referred to in the media.

No but there used to be. In the days when phones were rare (and even before they existed) the local paper would list patients as being 'critical' or 'poorly' etc.

If you ever overhear a medic tell a colleague a patient has been, 'transferred to ward 13' it means they have passed away, 'ward 13' is code for the morgue.

One hospital I worked at I had a relative who was a porter. The hospital had been a workhouse so consisted of many buildings.

If the porters were called to collect a body they all threw 50p coins in a jar and guessed the age, who ever was closest got the cash.

If your child is sent to take a note to another classroom and is then sent on to another it is likely the note they are carrying says, 'X needs a short time out, please send to another room', more used at primary where the child is not actually out of view.

@ChanklyBore I had a named midwife and all direct mobile contact numbers for the midwives In our local team, however whilst we aren’t ‘rural’ as such , we come under a community midwife team due to it being a ‘rural’ area. I only had to contact my midwife once outside of hours and she was amazing! I saw her for every appointment, I saw a different midwife for booking in / at the main hospital, and then had a 3rd who was my midwife through labour. Bumped into her in a shopping centre and burst into tears, she was amazing, remembered us and our story too! Perhaps we are just very lucky where we are .

Excounsellor here.
We really have heard it all. Your darkest most shameful secret, we will have already heard lots of times from other people. Especially if you are using NHS counsellors.

Yeah redlocks...dayum. i'm naive like yogafanatic, assumed fosterers were all really passionate about providing what home doesnt - family, love, giving a shit

Some are, some aren’t.

Unfortunately social workers are really poor at telling the difference . They tend to like the crap ones as they agree with them all the time, don’t lobby for more help for the children and hide any problems. Let teh kids do what they want. Basically don’t give them any hassle.

The good ones are up at the school, working with the teachers, lobbying for extra support or TA in school, asking for changes in contact to meet the childs needs, trying to get counselling for the child, hassling for contact with siblings, dealing with child’s family, asking for support with behavioural issues, hassling the Gp for referrals etc

Redlock, that’s shocking.
I know a lovely couple who would’ve given a child a fabulous home and were turned down.
Madness.