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Junior Doctors Strike


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Don't help themselves these lot

 

Interview earlier on wireless. Interviewer asks why they are striking. Response from plummy accented Junior Doctor girl:

 

"I am doing an hour an extra some nights without pay"

 

Fuck

 

Off

Lets go and work for someone for free

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Me too.

 

My mrs routinely does 70-80 hours a week so I know what it takes and why it happens.

 

Sitting there marking books whilst quaffing wine In front of the fire isn't working.

100 hours a week equates to more than 14 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

I'm also calling bullshit, either that or they're not very good at their job

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Medicine? Nope I'm a teacher.. My colleagues all do over 100 hours a week....

 

Really?

 

I'd be surprised if the average teacher actually "worked" for more than about 36 hours per week  -  I cant see how it's possible to get to 100 hours.

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I reckon the upper limit (for a trainee) is probably between the two (36-100) - maybe around 66 hours, 70 tops.

 

100 hours? Then they're probably (definitely) overthinking it, or having a lot of teabreaks or wankbreaks*.

 

Also, the day in school flies by if done right, hardly feels like a 'job' at all (if done right).

 

 

 

 

 

*during planning at home, not in school, wankbreaks in school are very much frowned upon.

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In the late 70s I was working 35 hours per week, plus very limited overtime, and spending 50 hours per week on my athletic club team manager's role.

At the end of the 1978 season I knew I would have a lot of overtime in 1979, thanks to the Chancellor of the Exchequer moving the goalposts for tax relief on life assurance premiums, so gave up the club work.

In 1979 I worked 3 Saturdays and 21 Sundays, mostly at short notice, as well as a few nightshifts.

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No balls got it :P

 

Do

7-6 Monday and Tuesday

7-4 Wednesday

7-5 Thursday

7-2.30 Friday

Then about 4 hours on a Sunday, maybe about 1 or 2 hours during the week. Take off 2.5 hours for lunch, leaves 52 hours ish.. I often wonder where some of the 80 hour weeks that people claim seem to come from.. I'm dyslexic and it takes me much longer than others to get things done.. 

 

I dont do any work on school Holidays... that's me taking my time back.. Levels itself out.

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I presumed he was being sarcastic.

I do 30 odd paid, any overtime is due to commitment to my job. I need a union rep probably to negotiate for me.

You can never tell if he's being sarcy or not with the amount of bullshit he comes out with.

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If everyone that worked the odd extra hour (without being paid overtime to get their job done) went on strike there would be more folk off than in work

 

see, I can see their point, as one hour becomes 2 hours .. etc... but you're right, for most, a few hours to get the job done is the norm.

 

Working in a hospital will be a never ending job, always something else needs doing.. 

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In the late 70s I was working 35 hours per week, plus very limited overtime, and spending 50 hours per week on my athletic club team manager's role.

At the end of the 1978 season I knew I would have a lot of overtime in 1979, thanks to the Chancellor of the Exchequer moving the goalposts for tax relief on life assurance premiums, so gave up the club work.

In 1979 I worked 3 Saturdays and 21 Sundays, mostly at short notice, as well as a few nightshifts.

Malcolm, I struggle to remember if I've peed before leaving the office or what I've had for my evening meal that night. How do you remember this stuff? Are you part human part machine?
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Either foundation year 1 or 2. The one you usually see when first taken to a&e.

 

Still qualified

Doctors can be 'Junior' for their whole career should they choose to. The term Junior refers to the fact that they have not progressed into a specialism and been promoted....HTH Edited by Salford Trotter
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