takenyou know what - im sick and tired of these same old tired old arguments being bandied about. You are ignorant of the facts, clearly, or are you just choosing to ignore what i and my colleagues are saying, repeatedly?
i have massive respect for nurses, but do you work alone?
if you are assaulted, do you have help on hand?
if you are assaulted, who do you call?
i have spent hours getting called to A&E to restrain patients who are assaulting staff, or to remove aggressive drunks, or to babysit another patient that the nursing staff cant or wont. I have been injured in the process.
i am a woman working alone, not having a clue what i am walking into when i answer a call for assistance. I work in a rural area and my backup can also be up to half an hour away.
in my last training session, we had to listen to a recording, in the district in which i work from last year, of 2 women PCs getting attacked with a machete. They pressed their emergency button, that was a routine concern for safety job, and the pcs should have been single crewed, it was the most harrowing thing i have ever heard in my life and it brings home to me that everyday i go to work, my husband and my children may not see me alive again. And i do it for £25k a year. let me just tell you, that with the 11% going into my pension, the fed subs, the added life insurance i felt it prudent to take, and the petrol bill, i am about £200 per month better off than when i worked 23 hours at the local doctors surgery.
where are you getting these figures from? i am certainly not going to get a lump sum and 25k a year - i have recently been looking into my pension and i would be better off in a private scheme. I joined the police at 38.
the new police pension scheme requires me to pay in 11% and work for 35 years.
go do the maths.
if you think we get such a fabulous deal then why not stop moaning and come join us. i am absolutely sodding sick and tired of this, and i wonder why the hell i do it quite frankly.
when i signed up, i knew it was a dangerous job, but what i did not bank on was the endless shit i would have to put with hearing, that endless droning on about how good we are meant to be having it. Why not do the job and see for yourself just how great it is locking up men who are having sex with their 7 years olds, or how fantastic it is picking up bits of people off the road, or how wonderful it feels to knock on someones door to tell them that their son is dead, or maybe you are craving the excitement of having the shit kicked out of you by the drunks fighting on a saturday night, or watching someone jump to their death from a multi storey car park? or maybe you just want the drunk in the back of your car to touch you up repeatedly - have a tiny little peep into the world of policing.
i am fucking well sick of this bitching. i never banked on this shite when i joined.