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Crosser Thanks for posting that that , I am feeling very sad this evening because of the loss of my DM a few months ago now , but we were there when she died after being in hospital for a few weeks and I did experience the nurses talking to her ,moving her gently telling her what they were doing , and stroking her hair after she was no longer with us .. At the time it was traumatic but now looking back , it was so lovely and caring of them even if we didnt notice at the time and you have reminded me of that .. Thank you and for all that you do ..

I work in medical research testing new medicines to see if they work and what the side effects are. We really do record every sniffle, cough, stubbed toe or similar that we are told about to try and establish if it is the new medication is causing it.

@ScabbyHorse I'm a primary school teacher and I (and everyone else I've discussed this with) throw away all pictures etc at the end of the day.

@Backwoodsgirl I live in this area-ish, and yes, you are 100% correct in the bike lock example.

I work in primary education. Sometimes we chuck work away when it's not been stuck in the book at the right time. But we always keep letters and pictures from the kids forever. And I'm afraid I judge the parents of the kids whose homework books smell of fags.

@Peachy that's really comforting.

Mine is similar to spiritedfaraway: I am a judge, and sometimes, after a not guilty verdict, on a murder trial, I get seized with a sense that the person was really guilty. Colleagues have it too. Never before, never while applying the law. Just briefly afterwards.

Hotel worker!

Your lost property, if you leave something behind like toiletries, spare change or alcohol this is kept for a week then fished out between the housekeeping staff.

If a item such as a phone, iPad laptop etc is found reception try and contact the guest, this is kept for 3months, after witch the housekeeper who cleans the room keeps said item. ( one of my girls found 3 brand new in box I phones and kept them after 6 months of being lost)

Also if a bedroom extremely dirty (poo in the bath, used condoms and fluids around room etc etc) extra money is offered to bribe staff into taking extra soiled rooms.

I work in hospitality. Very very little food is made from scratch these days, and a low 'scores on the doors' doesn't mean a dirty kitchen, normally it means poor record keeping.

I work in aviation too OP!!
If a bird strike happens in/through an engine in flight it will often leave no more evidence than a greasy smudge. Poor bird.

Aircraft fuel tanks have to be periodically drained and cleaned out. This is achieved by someone going in with a bucket and some cloths. Not very technical.

Some relatives don't wish to be there for the final stages, and that's ok

Please can I ask a sensitive question, Peachy?

Everyone I've ever known who's missed a loved one's last moments was told that "a nurse was with them, holding their hand at the end". Now, I know staff are extremely skilled at recognising such things, but I also know they're also extremely busy

So is what they're told likely to be true, or is it just a soothing fiction?

hellen have you got Athena though?

confused I worked a marathon shift last week for the exact reason you're friend said....I had something I need to hand over to next group after us. They had not one spare officer for me to handover to so I had to work 15 hours.

Same week 3 of us went to work and had 4 prisoners. They out numbered us. They often do.

I work in care and often care for residents in their last days of life.

It's the most rewarding area of my job.

We talk to the resident as if they were still with us when providing care after they've passed. We will also open a window and place a flower if appropriate. Even when taking the undertakers into the person, I still knock the door before entering.
Some relatives don't wish to be there for the final stages, and that's ok. No one will judge you. I will do everything I can to make sure your loved one is peaceful.

The care doesn't stop.

I agree with the CPR thing too. Having to perform it on an elderly person is brutal.

I was trying to work our what cards you were taking about hellen doesn’t surprise me

Stompy I too woke in MH some MH hospital wards are terribly frightening. Have seen people’s MH seriously deteriorate once in and sadly not having the support needed

cars not cards!!

I'll give you a nugget....I'm a response police officer.

Our cards are the most poorly maintained heaps of shite ever. They are never cleaned and I had to take my own hoover to work. I also use my own sat nav as forces don't provide anything. We use the log book to scrape the ice in winter- there is sod all provided. It's shocking. People think we have the best of everything....we have the cheapest if everything in reality. Our motto is "it's not meant to be good, it's just meant to be cheap!" And it is depressingly accurate!

I'm a journalist. Once a magazine or newspaper is ready to be printed, we say we're "putting it to bed."

A financial services firm I worked for couldn't decide which of the two fee methodologies proposed by the regulator to use as one would make one set of products more expensive than the market, and the other would do the same for a second set of products.

From a MH nurse:

You have to be much more unwell than most people imagine to be sectioned. Just being suicidal isn't enough! Generally you need to have a significant history of suicide attempts where you didn't seek help, and have an active plan to do it again.

The next of kin can discharge a section. The responsible clinician can go to court to displace them and prevent them discharging the section, but they rarely do.

Being admitted to a mental health hospital is often unhelpful for people. They are noisy and sometimes scary places. Sometimes patients become too dependant on staff regulating their risky behaviour for them, and if gets really difficult to get back to real life.

@MumUndone it is but it never stopped us scoffing when our shift was over

I work in a role where being assaulted can be a regular occurrence. I may not like all the other staff I work with, and vice versa, but my goodness, we support each other like family when the shit hits the fan.

Post incidents, we tend to always find a funny side. It's amazing how someone brandishing a weapon threatening you can be so funny.

My job requires very dark humour.

wombatsears that’s what I was coming on to say! Teachers do absolutely have favourites but this doesn’t mean special treatment for them, because you’re usually very aware of not doing it. And yes, it’s rarely the “teacher’s pet” types (although we do of course very much like well-behaved, diligent students!).

When a family ask where their dead relative is going from the ward, we say “chapel of rest” never mortuary.

Thanks for all lovely comments.

People don’t know how much we actually care and show love to their relatives when we have them with us in sickness and in death. It’s important. So important.
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I work in mortgage compliance, the amount of applications we get where the whole process is fabricated is terrifying, usually it's a whole con to get the mortgage advance.

We regularly catch people buying a house on a buy to let basis to live in, if you're going to do it, at lest change your electoral register details

We have recently had a property valuation come back stating there was hydroponics set up in the basement but that it would be suitable for letting