I spoke to James O Brien on LBC discussing care homes today and whether cameras should be considered as a preventative measure against abuse. I didn't manage to get all my points out coherently as he can sometimes be a condescending bliter (in a warm-hearted way) but it makes me so mad honestly and that interrupts my thoughts. Plus the fact that I am pregnant now and it's extra hard to stay in control of my emotions at the moment.
Anyway so the first point, I made clearly but I will reiterate for clarity sake. Dementia is so debilitating, that cherishing and protecting the choices a resident is able to make, is paramount. Nothing trumps that. The majority of residents, do not want cameras in their rooms.
Staff members who are intent on abuse or who are lazy and neglectful, will find a way round the cameras whether they are actually present in a room or the possibility of their presence is suspected. James suggested that the cameras might make staff be..."on their best behaviour" but is that the kind of people we want in our care homes!? We want staff who regard Best Practice as the norm and who don't rely on cameras being present to force them to behave like a regular human being should.
Cameras are lazy. Managers and overseeing agencies should be doing their friken job!!!
A more cost effective solution would be for CQC to enrol a 'new employee' once in every while. Give it three months and their eyes will have been the 'camera' without compromising any resident's dignity or preferences. This would be a far more (cost) effective deterrent as current staff will obviously suspect all new recruits and it would be a far more practical way to gather information. If there is bad practice and abuse, that new staff member will come across it in a three month period - for sure.
Managers, especially of larger residential care homes, don't have it in their own interests to getting rid of staff who they have invested training in and who make themselves invaluable by picking up extra hours when staff shortages invariably occur. They sack that person and the management are faced with calling in expensive agency workers to cover until they can go through the lengthy process of finding and training another full time worker to take the place or the one they just had to let go.
There is always the danger though, of the recently sacked individual, getting another job in a care home somewhere else. I think they should all be prosecuted; really it's the most heinous crime to abuse a vulnerable human being.
It's down to CQC to get their act together. Turning up unexpected (yeh really!? Like the home doesn't know they are coming pfft!), checking the paperwork (like paperwork can't be edited!!), and chatting at reception for 10 minutes with the home manager, while staff are scurrying around getting out the best china, figuratively speaking, is disgustingly inadequate.
Damn, ask me, and I will leave my job and work for CQC undercover. I will total weed out the dogs in the system.
I want a bump in salary and a nice car though.
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Eastern Europeans Prepared to Work in Modern Day Workhouses
The reason why Eastern Europeans can come over here to the UK and work in a job that gives little thought or care for its workers is because the conditions of there own country are most often, bare worse than ours here. That's a fact!
They are enticed to the UK by the opportunity to earn money for home, some of them for quite a few years and some for a rli short period of time. Thing is, if you know you're going back home or sending money back for your family and kids, then you are not building your life here, you're doing a trial and then soon it will end. There is few distractions, sometimes no friends and the only focus is earning and saving money, work, work, work as much as you can. Even some who stay and work longer term, admit that the conditions are better here on our worst day, than they are back home. So for them, it's a step up. Doesn't mean I agree with them working in the conditions they choose to.
Our focus in this country, is about decent job for decent pay and conditions. It's what the rents fought for politically and it's what we're taught in this country. There is nothing wrong with desiring basic rights, minimum wage, sure (but with appropriate conditions), and being valued and not treated like or feeling like dogs.
Most large employers (corporate, faceless, companies) will expect from their employees the most they can get for the least they can pay, and the influx of new euro members will oblige. Just because the new euros allow themselfs to be treated badly by bosses, that doesn't mean the British people who are competing for those same jobs, should be compelled by public disapproval and disdain, to do the same.
I watched a documentary on the Amazon, company, and the conditions it provides for its workers. They are treated like slaves and even a doctor, after viewing the footage and checking on one worker's health, said some of the people are making themselfs ill and might even die (if done long term), because of the hours they are expected to work, the targets they are expected to reach daily, and the stress they are being put under by their employers.
I am vexed, total really, that in this country, not even do we allow this to happen but also we get on the radio and try shame the yp in Britain about why they refuse these workhouses, because thas what they are, modern day workhouses, where the impossible target is the whip used to beat you and the expendable, insecure, nature of your position in the company, is the threat that constantly hangs over you.
So now ask the question.... Do you want to work like a dog in a modern day workhouse or be given some money and not go there?
Stupidass discussion this morning on LBC 97.3 with James O Brien
They are enticed to the UK by the opportunity to earn money for home, some of them for quite a few years and some for a rli short period of time. Thing is, if you know you're going back home or sending money back for your family and kids, then you are not building your life here, you're doing a trial and then soon it will end. There is few distractions, sometimes no friends and the only focus is earning and saving money, work, work, work as much as you can. Even some who stay and work longer term, admit that the conditions are better here on our worst day, than they are back home. So for them, it's a step up. Doesn't mean I agree with them working in the conditions they choose to.
Our focus in this country, is about decent job for decent pay and conditions. It's what the rents fought for politically and it's what we're taught in this country. There is nothing wrong with desiring basic rights, minimum wage, sure (but with appropriate conditions), and being valued and not treated like or feeling like dogs.
Most large employers (corporate, faceless, companies) will expect from their employees the most they can get for the least they can pay, and the influx of new euro members will oblige. Just because the new euros allow themselfs to be treated badly by bosses, that doesn't mean the British people who are competing for those same jobs, should be compelled by public disapproval and disdain, to do the same.
I watched a documentary on the Amazon, company, and the conditions it provides for its workers. They are treated like slaves and even a doctor, after viewing the footage and checking on one worker's health, said some of the people are making themselfs ill and might even die (if done long term), because of the hours they are expected to work, the targets they are expected to reach daily, and the stress they are being put under by their employers.
I am vexed, total really, that in this country, not even do we allow this to happen but also we get on the radio and try shame the yp in Britain about why they refuse these workhouses, because thas what they are, modern day workhouses, where the impossible target is the whip used to beat you and the expendable, insecure, nature of your position in the company, is the threat that constantly hangs over you.
So now ask the question.... Do you want to work like a dog in a modern day workhouse or be given some money and not go there?
Stupidass discussion this morning on LBC 97.3 with James O Brien
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Never Eat Off The Trolley
This lady at work died over night. I'm glad I wasn't on last night because I think it might have mattered to me too much. I used to buy her Refreshers - pack of 4 in Aldi - because she used to have them way back when. But they made her cough so much even though I used to crush them up with a couple spoons into the smallest powder I could. She just loved the sweet taste on her tongue as the sweet taste areas in the mouth are the last remaining. That's why the homes put so much salt and sugar in the prepd meals because the residents ability to taste stuff fails progressively and that's why you should never eat off the trolley if you work in a care home. Maxd out with sugar and salt.
Death is a wierd thing. I have noticed that the majority Muslim countries are much more prepd for it than we are here in the UK. We always imagine it to be way way far someday in the future and hardly ever discuss it without idiotic humour but Muslims speak about it rli seriously and imagine it's going to be any day when Allah, subhana wa ta 3la determines. I like this about my new religion.
Anyways she's dead now, this lady, no kids, no family alive, no one visited her, no personal items in her room, nothing. Idk if Muslims are allowed to go to Christian funerals but I want to go just to make someone count for her.
Death is a wierd thing. I have noticed that the majority Muslim countries are much more prepd for it than we are here in the UK. We always imagine it to be way way far someday in the future and hardly ever discuss it without idiotic humour but Muslims speak about it rli seriously and imagine it's going to be any day when Allah, subhana wa ta 3la determines. I like this about my new religion.
Anyways she's dead now, this lady, no kids, no family alive, no one visited her, no personal items in her room, nothing. Idk if Muslims are allowed to go to Christian funerals but I want to go just to make someone count for her.
Friday, 23 August 2013
Randoms in Mixed Accommodation
I love one day to have my own apartment but right now my money goes on my brother, then my mum. OMG I bought him a tiny thobe the other day and told him to wear it on Fridays. He will look so cute in it!!! I can't wait to see him again. So, until I get my own yard I live in mixed accommodation with randoms. I don't mind it and it's never dullard. But atm we have got the weirdest house ever!!!
This bloke moves in downstairs. He's about 50, bit of a stoop, hyperactive and weird. Not weird with some originality, not creepy weird because he seems rli sweet, but just, talks-to-himself-out-loud, weird and, random noises, weird and, a bit obsessive, weird. What is more weird is that the other people who live in the house have checked themselves since hearing him and so they went completely silent when using the communal areas in the house, including me!!! Too funny.
Sometimes you don't even notice what you do that's weird until you hear it or see it in other people, then you're like DAM STOP already, lulz.
The other residents are equally extreme. There's the 5XL, 40 something lady, who lives next door to me. She is a major control freik and laughs even when there's nothing funny to laugh at. There's the bloke upstairs who is clumsy and uncoordinated, he's a proper aerosol and me and him argue so much but he always starts with me, never the other way round and I only respond because after about 15 seconds he runs out of witty things to say and I don't, which makes him total vexed. Idiot.
There's the Czech man who lives upstairs about 50 who sounds like a German and snores OMG BARE loud, the other guy upstairs is about 25 and he's like a girl, and he exaggerates so much about everything. Apparently he's got every rare condition there is. Then there is another actual girl downstairs near me and no one ever sees her hardly at all. She's oriental and rli sweet but total shy.
Then there's me ^_______________^ Nothing to see here, move along, ha!
This bloke moves in downstairs. He's about 50, bit of a stoop, hyperactive and weird. Not weird with some originality, not creepy weird because he seems rli sweet, but just, talks-to-himself-out-loud, weird and, random noises, weird and, a bit obsessive, weird. What is more weird is that the other people who live in the house have checked themselves since hearing him and so they went completely silent when using the communal areas in the house, including me!!! Too funny.
Sometimes you don't even notice what you do that's weird until you hear it or see it in other people, then you're like DAM STOP already, lulz.
The other residents are equally extreme. There's the 5XL, 40 something lady, who lives next door to me. She is a major control freik and laughs even when there's nothing funny to laugh at. There's the bloke upstairs who is clumsy and uncoordinated, he's a proper aerosol and me and him argue so much but he always starts with me, never the other way round and I only respond because after about 15 seconds he runs out of witty things to say and I don't, which makes him total vexed. Idiot.
There's the Czech man who lives upstairs about 50 who sounds like a German and snores OMG BARE loud, the other guy upstairs is about 25 and he's like a girl, and he exaggerates so much about everything. Apparently he's got every rare condition there is. Then there is another actual girl downstairs near me and no one ever sees her hardly at all. She's oriental and rli sweet but total shy.
Then there's me ^_______________^ Nothing to see here, move along, ha!
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Godfrey's Blooming Marvellous!
The Sun style headline to kick off Godfrey the Great and his latest vacuous comments ( LBC ), as that's about the same level his opinions on just about everything is at.
Don't get me wrong, I love that the bloke exists so freiken much and would defend his right to make a arse of himself every day.
According to him, feminists are "shrill, bored, middle class women of a certain physical genre".
I actually don't like the feminists I have come across in life so, this only reads like a yawny misogynistic generalisation for me.
And their male supporters are "slightly effete, politically correct chaps who get sand kicked in their face in the beach".
haha... I don't think mrjamesob is effete, he's the only feminist supporter I know of. I'm undecided about the rest.
He reckons he's a alpha male who wouldn't be at the birth of his own baby, which is a weird example to give up of a alpha male. That tells me more that he isn't one.
His comments about female car drivers are jokes!!! Like someone's skill level at any one thing is down to their gender, lulz
If I ever see Godfrey at traffic lights when I'm in my car, I would show him my amazing hand break spin, burn some rubber and leave grandad in smoke thinking up his next incoherent comments about the 'irresponsible youth of today'.
Friday, 16 August 2013
Non Muslims: Brainwashed about Hijab
How can a non-Muslim even hope to understand about hijab (modesty covering), when they are brainwashed by the media already that a woman dresses in this way because she is oppressed.
I am an English girl, reasonably confident (depending on the circumstances), opinionated with a healthy self-esteem. I'm not fugly. I'm above average looking and a size 10 dress. I'm also a revert (convert) to Islam. The reason I mention my physical appearance is that some people think it's only fugly girls who revert to Islam because they can get a husband easier as he can't see her. Lame, but I heard that one before.
Ok, oppression. No-one is oppressing me. I have a quick enough tongue and some skillful kickboxing moves and if someone tried to oppress me, I'd use them both. I don't have a Muslim family, I didn't grow up in a Muslim community and I don't have a Muslim husband telling me to wear modest clothes or he'll smack me with miswak.
I am Muslim because Islam is the haqq (truth). I wear hijab firstly because it is written in The Qur'an and secondly because I choose to. Some Muslim women choose not to and that's their business.
I grew up in a western culture that tells me I have liberty and choice and yet all of the women, with various amounts of their body on show, don't look to me like they are utilising that choice. They look like they are brainwashed by a over-sexualised culture. Ok, so I am using my choice, but the minute I take that choice opposite to the mainstream culture I live in, I am now considered oppressed. Too funny! But sad as well.
The reason women in Islam are instructed by Allah (subhana wa ta 3la), to cover, is not to keep us down and oppress us, anyone with even a elementary understanding of Islam will know that is emotive rubbish that fits with the current anti-Islamic climate. The reason we cover is first because it's an act of worship to Allah and second because our bodies are only for our husbands to see. A gift for him alone. Since I covered mine, I feel so nice not having blokes looking at me like...that way. I know not every bloke looks that way at women but a lot do and I get how difficult it is not to look for some blokes. And some women don't even mind a bloke looking because he's just appreciating her nice looks and nothing more than that. I get it! I really do.
I had mates in the coffee shop I worked at say that I looked nice or that I was beautiful, well one said I looked beautiful and I didn't think he was a perv or anything but just complimentary. The thing is though, it's better this way, I feel better this way as a woman.
When I talk to a bloke now, my sexuality doesn't come into it. It's just a straight communication and I feel respected for just being a human being on the planet and not a sexual object to look at, even if only to admire in a polite way.
I am an English girl, reasonably confident (depending on the circumstances), opinionated with a healthy self-esteem. I'm not fugly. I'm above average looking and a size 10 dress. I'm also a revert (convert) to Islam. The reason I mention my physical appearance is that some people think it's only fugly girls who revert to Islam because they can get a husband easier as he can't see her. Lame, but I heard that one before.
Ok, oppression. No-one is oppressing me. I have a quick enough tongue and some skillful kickboxing moves and if someone tried to oppress me, I'd use them both. I don't have a Muslim family, I didn't grow up in a Muslim community and I don't have a Muslim husband telling me to wear modest clothes or he'll smack me with miswak.
I am Muslim because Islam is the haqq (truth). I wear hijab firstly because it is written in The Qur'an and secondly because I choose to. Some Muslim women choose not to and that's their business.
I grew up in a western culture that tells me I have liberty and choice and yet all of the women, with various amounts of their body on show, don't look to me like they are utilising that choice. They look like they are brainwashed by a over-sexualised culture. Ok, so I am using my choice, but the minute I take that choice opposite to the mainstream culture I live in, I am now considered oppressed. Too funny! But sad as well.
The reason women in Islam are instructed by Allah (subhana wa ta 3la), to cover, is not to keep us down and oppress us, anyone with even a elementary understanding of Islam will know that is emotive rubbish that fits with the current anti-Islamic climate. The reason we cover is first because it's an act of worship to Allah and second because our bodies are only for our husbands to see. A gift for him alone. Since I covered mine, I feel so nice not having blokes looking at me like...that way. I know not every bloke looks that way at women but a lot do and I get how difficult it is not to look for some blokes. And some women don't even mind a bloke looking because he's just appreciating her nice looks and nothing more than that. I get it! I really do.
I had mates in the coffee shop I worked at say that I looked nice or that I was beautiful, well one said I looked beautiful and I didn't think he was a perv or anything but just complimentary. The thing is though, it's better this way, I feel better this way as a woman.
When I talk to a bloke now, my sexuality doesn't come into it. It's just a straight communication and I feel respected for just being a human being on the planet and not a sexual object to look at, even if only to admire in a polite way.
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Care Workers Do Care
I want to say something about care homes because I work in one and I feel that the care workers have come under a lot of attack because of some really bad and abusive carers, the rest get slated as well.
Contrary to popular belief about care workers
I personally am not working in a care home because I am not skilled enough to do anything else. I could easily earn a lot more money than 6:70 per hour, if I had taken a job in retail. I actual passed-up a job in John Lewis for the job I have now....and also I left a good job in a coffee shop to take the job I am in now. Reason is, I know the state of some of the care homes and I made an intelligent and informed decision to go work there. That's the same for a lot of people who could earn more somewhere else where the manual work is less back-breaking and you don't get punched in the face or spit at on a regular basis or pooed on or vomited on either. Just customers buying stuff off you. Nice! But for me, unsatisfying and total massboredom.
You might think that a lot of the staff are mingers who don't care about their job and who can't be arsed to care for the residents properly. There are some like that, yea sure, there is in any job, some people who do stuff that is total inapropriate so that they shouldn't even be there working BUT the majority of staff in any care home, cares about their people.
Contrary to popular belief about care workers
I personally am not working in a care home because I am not skilled enough to do anything else. I could easily earn a lot more money than 6:70 per hour, if I had taken a job in retail. I actual passed-up a job in John Lewis for the job I have now....and also I left a good job in a coffee shop to take the job I am in now. Reason is, I know the state of some of the care homes and I made an intelligent and informed decision to go work there. That's the same for a lot of people who could earn more somewhere else where the manual work is less back-breaking and you don't get punched in the face or spit at on a regular basis or pooed on or vomited on either. Just customers buying stuff off you. Nice! But for me, unsatisfying and total massboredom.
You might think that a lot of the staff are mingers who don't care about their job and who can't be arsed to care for the residents properly. There are some like that, yea sure, there is in any job, some people who do stuff that is total inapropriate so that they shouldn't even be there working BUT the majority of staff in any care home, cares about their people.
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