[quote Nothappyatwork]@Maverickess i’m not suggesting you’re the problem at all you literally have to vote with your feet it’s the only way to send a very firm message that you’re not gonna put up with this shit any more. I love that contracts are being handed back actually that’s huge progress rather than trying to make it work when it’s literally impossible.[/quote]
If you’re still doing a minimum wage job after three or four years in employment you really do have to have a serious look at your life and wonder what you’ve done wrong why haven’t you progressed up the ladder ?
This is what you said, and I'm literally pence above nmw, especially now as it's gone up and mine hasn't, so it applies to me. I did what you're 'supposed' to do, I worked hard, I trained, I do the extra shifts....... Yet according to you I have to wonder what I did wrong.
And yes, I'm looking to get out, I'm looking for opportunities where I'm not going to be treated that way - but finding that they don't actually exist in the care sector because it's far to used to exploiting people and then blaming them for that. On the wider scale I can see the industry needs people like me, but unfortunately there's an element of society that shuts itself off to that and insists that people in minimum wage jobs are doing something wrong, while happily relying on them to provide the service they do.
People look at the wage and assume your worth from that, if you actually delved deeper and saw the real worth of a job like mine, the relatives of the people I care for being free to do their jobs and earn better money, the profit the company makes divvied up between the share holders to sustain their lifestyle - and that's just the financial worth, without factoring in the human worth of ensuring that the vulnerable people in our society are at least as safe as can be when they can't do that for themselves.
Sending back contracts is only a good thing if it forces a change - but the only change happening is that people are going without care when they need it and no one seems bothered about that. Perhaps when it reaches the point where people can't go off and do their better jobs for better pay and feel they're worth more, but instead are having to care for their own relatives, realisation may dawn and things might change - I'm not holding my breath though, nor hanging around to see if it happens.