To ask for the scandalous secrets of your industry?

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Or just dirt?

Mine isn't very interesting, more just sad. My background is in immigration and I have never worked with so many racist (and stupid) people.

A boat of refugees when down and the guy who told us the news was laughing about it.

Endless racial stereotypes and visas refused because "as if a French person would go out with a Japanese person" etc.

Then there was the chap who said amnesty are evil because they provide money for abortions to rape victims in the Congo. He's the same guy who refuses to assess any applications from homosexuals because he thinks they should all be denied visas. He doesn't get fired for this.

There are probably more but they are the stand outs.

What's your industry gossip? I'd especially love to hear from nannies and cleaners but I'm interested in all dirt!

The idea that midwives or any other hcp would talk/laugh about patients behind their backs makes me very sad.

Can anyone assure me that this doesn't happen? Please?

I can only speak for nurses/medics and a midwifery placement in London teaching hospital. It honestly never happened when I was there.
I must agree with the other poster who said that the new generation - some of them are not so dedicated.

I have never heard anyone laugh about a patient.

In academia, most male professors have banged, or are trying to bang, their much younger female colleagues.

Not true in my experience - most of my male colleagues are decent people. What is true, though, is that every faculty or large dept I've known has at least one notorious sexual harrasser and one alcoholic (sometimes the same person). In one dept I worked one of the professors was a horrible creep to me and other junior female colleagues until one of my colleagues wearing stilettos 'accidentally' stepped on his foot (he was wearing socks and sandals, of course). He's behaved himself since then, as far as I know.

I worked in social work/mental health (as an admin).

They gossiped about clients and "oohed and aaahed" in meetings about their dirty houses and other stuff they'd done. Seemed most of them relished the drama - like their own personal Eastenders. They didn't seem to understand that of course their clients would not have perfect lives and may not be managing so well. Isn't that the point of them needing support?

They were a dysfunctional nightmare to work with.

I hope I never have a MH problem as I'd hate to be involved in their department.

Glad I left.

I am shocked that teachers have the time or inclination to discuss parents - they must go through so many over the years!

In academia, most male professors have banged, or are trying to bang, their much younger female colleagues.

Not true in my experience either!

Deals done between many FMCG companies and the big supermarkets certainly fix retail prices. The few people on trial for this at the moment is the tip of a massive iceberg.

A depressing thread.

Peonyfan, that still happens. I assure you.

Itscurtainsforyou My DP and several close friends work in various HCP roles (doctors, dentists, midwives, HVs, nurses, etc) and I can assure you they would never be so unprofessional as to laugh at their patients behind their backs.

They are human so sometimes find people exhausting or frustrating, and some situations are funny - but they'd never single out a patient for judgement, no way.

My first job was waitressing in a private cafe (i.e.,not a chain).

I was allowed to eat my lunch for free there, but I never did because of what I saw "backstage"

In academia, most male professors have banged, or are trying to bang, their much younger female colleagues.

Not most, but it definitely happens. Both shagging and indeed marrying recently graduated students.

Curtains, we had to lodge a formal complaint a few months ago after a ward nurse treated my MIL (mentally unstable - lives in squallor, hordes filth etc but wont let you or anyone else past the front door) like she was a running joke. Even pulled faces as she arrived on the ward, after we finally managed to get her admitted and seen to after several years of fighting for it.

Some of the hospital staff I have dealt with in the past couple of years have been the same. Same as every walk of life, there are arseholes in all places.

I work in marketing for a large corporate bank. In terms of marketing, there's no real scandal other than it's much harder work than people imagine. Although if your spouse or partner works on the road in sales, they are more than likely cheating on you with another salesperson. It's disgusting and a big part of why I moved away from a sales supporting role and into a more corporate one.

Big banks are everything you'd imagine but one thing people don't know is that banks don't want people to default on their loans. They don't make money on it, not in the big picture / long term. And no, you missing a direct debit doesn't cost them the £35 or whatever that they charge you, but it also doesn't come close to covering the lifetime cost of administering your account which they generally undercharge for. The whole system is broken and nobody is benefitting.

Years ago, I worked in a bar and the drip trays that stand under the glass when you fill a pint used to be emptied into buckets, put through a filter system in the cellar and then pumped back into the system. Saved the pub a fortune in wastage. I don't drink pints on draught but this would put me off if I did.

i work for a chain restaurant (tgis) and my job is kitchen cleaning and at the branch i work at i pull all the equipment out every day wash down the walls, sweep, deck scrub and mop the floor, then i pull all the filters out of the canopies, they go through the dishwasher, the canopies are then washed and degreased every day, i then clean the fryers out by emptying, washing rinsing drying every day, this is company policy, and we have a company come in every 3 months to check that everything is up to standard cant say the same about some of the pubs and hotels ive worked in over the years

That's terrible, Wando

I don't understand why people go into the so-called "caring" professions when they patently do not care.

Also, I hate how some feel superior to their clients. There but for the grace of God go I, I always say. Anyone of us could end up in the same position one day.

They should see being in a position to help make someone's life better as a privilege. They are there to help, not to judge.

I realise this is by no means representative of all of the profession, not by a long shot, but I have seem some worrying stuff myself I'm afraid.

A lady I knew worked in caring. A lot of these people were obviously elderly and/or infirm. She would regularly accept gifts from them including cash, ornaments and once even a car. A number of people rang the care group to raise concerns/complain, but as far as I know she still works there. They just did not care.

I'm a journalist. Unlike what you would expect I have no major scandalous secrets, the vast majority of the journalists and editors I have worked with have been hard-working and principled (only worked for trade magazines though, no newspapers). Only one was utterly incompetent but she meant well.

However I can tell you that when I was editorial assistant I was in charge of the monthly "enter by postcard" competition, and it wasn't entirely random - if I liked your postcard you might be more likely to win.

YY to every academic department having a creepy bloke harassing or bullying female colleagues in one way or another. I have encountered this absolutely everywhere I have worked. Nobody ever does anything about it, either. At best they are just shuffled along to another nice job while the women concerned are laid off or feel they have to resign out of stress. It's not good. The Times Higher did a story about this recently.

Favouritism, feuds and patronage in academia are so rife that there is a special box on European Research Council forms where you can list your top 3 enemies to make sure they don't get given your grant application to review. I am not making this up!

In an academia, authors added on who haven't even read the paper!

Banking. All the women fuck their way to the top, unless they aren't conventionally attractive in which case they are very highly educated and have no family life.

I'm a social worker and work for a CMHT, and neither myself nor any of my colleagues would ever dream of saying or thinking anything derogatory at all. We all have the utmost compassion and respect for the people who we work with.

It's disgusting to think some midwifes do this, when a woman is at her most vulnerable

I could have had a lot more fun on the way up had I fucked my way there. There was me being a mug and sitting in the library all that time.