Why is my NHS employed SIL 'working from home'?

[emptyfridge]

Really confused as to why the government are taking on thousands of volunteers to support the NHS and we are constantly being told of the immense pressure staff are under when my perfectly capable SIL is working from home apparently catching up on paperwork?

[Timetospare]

She’s performing open heart surgery on the kitchen table?

[Crunchymum]

My DC is under a dietitian, SLT, PT, OT and community nurse team.

All our appointments have been done via video / phone and the HCP are all working from home at present.

What do you not understand @emptyfridge?

[DefConOne]

I’m at home as due to my (mild) asthma I’m not in the front of the queue to backfill ward clerks. Also my office based role is specialised and is involved in the COVID response. I would make a terrible HCA.

[emptyfridge]

She's just riled me a lot recently by using key worker slots at school for her 2 dc and using the special NHS time at the supermarket.

[Soontobe60]

She's clearly not an ICU doctor. My DS is an NHS employee, she too is working from home, as is my two DDs and their husbands. They are still working very hard!
My DH isn't an NHS employee but is working at his place of work. Should he stay at home? He'd find it very hard as he's currently making laundry bags and body bags for the NHS, and that cant be done at home.
Stop being judgy.

[JudgeRindersMinder]

The volunteers are needed for hands on work-postering, cleaning, HCA, not administrators.
Admin functions still need to happen, so these people like your SIL cannot be redeployed to the hands on stuff

[Soontobe60]

She's just riled me a lot recently by using key worker slots at school for her 2 dc and using the special NHS time at the supermarket.

Which she's perfectly entitled to do.

[PristineCondition]

Dont be a dick, there's a pandemic on and you whining about shopping slots ffs

[mallachy]

I work in a school. Key workers who are working from home should be keeping their children at home (I am a key worker but DH able to WFH therefore when I'm in work the children are still at home).

[JudgeRindersMinder]

@emptyfridge we cross posted. She’s using keyworker childcare etc as it would appear she IS a keyworker

So the crux of your issue is you don’t like her or are jealous

[DefConOne]

Well she shouldn’t be sending her kids to school if she is at home. Our school was clear on this and we have two DC and both parents WFH.

Maybe that should have been your OP.

[Thehop]

Key workers working from home are not allowed to have children in school.

Other than that she’s doing what everyone else’s that’s able is and working from home

[Gruffalo45]

I think there are quicker ways to write that you dislike your SIL.

[RichardMarxisinnocent]

*Because I think, even given how bad things are, they haven’t started gowning up admin staff to tend to patients just yet!

FFS. *

This. I would be pretty useless if drafted in to tend to patients.

I work in an NHS IT department and am currently working from home as the work we are doing doesn't require us to be in the office. We are extremely busy updating existing systems to reflect changes in ward and Emergency Department layouts, and developing, testing and implementing new applications to help with the response to COVID 19. A hospital needs many many more people than just doctors and nurses to be able to function.

[MrsAJ27]

What has it got to do with you OP?

[deplorabelle]

Depends on the children's ages. If they are 5 and 6 and their mother needs to make confidential phone calls during the day or, you know, concentrate for five minutes, she will need the childcare from school and us entitled to it

[RichardMarxisinnocent]

Apologies for the bold fail there!

[Notnownotneverever]

Without you actually sharing what job she has this thread is a bit pointless.

[onanothertrain]

I work for the NHS, I'm a nurse. I'm also in the vulnerable group. I'm working from home until I'm needed elsewhere.

[emptyfridge]

She doesn't have underlying health problems and her job is not admin. I have asked her. She told me she is catching up on paperwork.

Why is she entitled to school places for her dc when she is working from home and can look after them herself?

[HighNetGirth]

Some admin is absolutely crucial, and doing it makes you a key worker whether you go in to work or do it at home. And if it is crucial and you have to put in a full day at it, then your children will need to be at school and you do deserve a special shopping slot.

[mynameiswah]

You sound bitchy, petty and jealous of your SIL.

[20viona]

She is allowed to use the NHS slots
In the supermarket if she's NHS employed you sound totally jealous to be honest.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

She might be doing Confidential Virtual Consultations by phone .
If you had a CVC would you like your HCP children to be earwigging ? Because with the best will in the world "Stay in your room, Mum is working" doesn't work for small DC.

[Hannsmum]

Don't really get the point of this post OP.you sound totally envious and spiteful. 🙄