cav551:
the nodding donkey:
To be honest, it’s difficult to sell our “overworked and underpaid” sobstory to a lot of people…Try explaining your day to a hospital porter, who, halfway through your pittyfull story, interrupts you because “he needs to see to Mr. Johnson in cubicle 5 who’s soiled himself again”. (Long shifts, always on your feet, cleaning up sick and sjit, paid minimum wage)
Try to explain how hard done by you are, when the goods in staff dont treat you with due deference, to a care worker who has to tell the family that their child has died…
Try to impress on a warehouse worker, on a zero hour contract, not knowing how he or she will feed their kids next week, that you are dangerously overworked, and not even paid an enhanced overtime rate…
Point out to a single mum, trying to juggle two or three part time jobs to feed her kid(s), that working 15 hours a day is not on in this day and age… (get kids up, fed and to school, two or three hours cleaning in the morning, clean house, do laundry etc, a few hours on the till in the afternoon, get kids from school, feed them, put them to bed, and cleaning or a bar job in the evening. All for minimum wage, or less. And it’s usually their kids, who are sent to school clean and fed)…
Theres a lot more than these few…We should fight for more for all, not pretend we have it hard. We have it easy.
Nice one.
We’d all do well to think sometimes.
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