It’s an easy skive. How many are trying to get medical retirement? Public sector just accepts it and pays a fortune to get temp cover.
These are from stories from pals in policing, fire and teaching. Not all in these professions do it, obviously, but those conscientious enough to care enough NOT to do it are eventually worn down by their colleagues (who don’t give a fuck – and it means the good ones end up paying for their skiving colleagues absences). Meaning almost everyone will at some stage be at it..
I know I’ll be downvoted, but noone likes facing the truth of our public sector and work ethic overall. Newspapers won’t touch it and politicians won’t either. It’s costing the taxpayer a fortune – and we wonder why we can’t afford decent public services.
Directly from the article
>“Official statistics show that there were 16,427 officers at September 30 and the Chief Constable stated that she expected numbers to reach 16,600 in November.
What, they didn’t even bother to get updated statistics? They just wrote down the first thing Google threw up about police numbers without looking at the outdated dates mentioned? wtf…
What kind of cobbled together article to add yet another ‘Scotland is shite’ story to the endless stream of Scotland is shite news stories going on for the last decade
(For clarity before you read the next bit:- I think ‘mental health’ is a perfectly acceptable reason for absence and in that job particularly, very fucking validated)
The real reason the number of “mental health absences” has risen so much is because before, writing down “mental health” on your self cert would have been fucking laughed at as an acceptable reason for taking a day off, fuck there’s management in a lot of jobs today that would still *want* to discipline you and stop sick pay for putting that down as a reason – it’s not because the level of shit the police have to deal with has suddenly massively increased or because suddenly the entire employee base just isn’t as thick skinned or something
It’s like saying the number of days off due to covid has increased exponentially since 2019
Police in the UK are mostly evil human beings last time I had an interaction with the police in the UK they were making jokes about poverty in my own house
Maybe because the polis are also having to be social workers, paramedics and mental health crisis councellors on top of enforcing the law.
Cant see how this is anything new and I’m sure it is and always has been stressful job along with paramedics and fire fighters. But the media need another “crisis” to generate interest and views
We need a fifth emergency service, mental health paramedics. Police joined to fight crime and protect the public from crime, not be blue light social workers/counsellors and not to support chronically underfunded ambulance services.
The mental health crisis impacts all public facing workers, who are often also victims to the contributing factors towards this nationwide crisis. So as well as dealing with our own problems, we are often placed in a position way outwith our job description to assist the public because you do so out of your own conscience. For example, I worked in fraud for a bank (on the phones) assisting customers when their payments were flagged as potentially suspicious, I was talking five people a day out of suicide on a daily basis. Could often be more. A young person gets a cashier job at a shop to get work experience dealing with money and customer service, not to restrain multiple shoplifters or protect someone from endangering themselves or others.
To conclude, people wonder why it takes so long to be serviced in a shop or when calling a company, nobody wants to work these jobs anymore. The police, teachers, NHS workers, paramedics etc are just part of an ever increasing cohort saying enough is enough. Solve the mental health crisis or provide more worker protection enshrined in law for consistency amongst all employers. Decorum went out the window post Covid.
Unfortunately it’s the same across the entire public sector. Everything is squeezed to breaking point.
I find it interesting when I see these reports, because I think about how many people have and will be potentially denied from having a career in Police Scotland due to having any of these “psychological disorders” on their record before joining. Regardless of them being highly suitable or not, I’d be concerned that they would refuse candidates at all sorts points on the spectrum or circumstances while the numbers are that high inside anyway.
Mebbe they should stop spending their days trawling social media for posts to take offence at and get out in the fresh air.
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It’s an easy skive. How many are trying to get medical retirement? Public sector just accepts it and pays a fortune to get temp cover.
These are from stories from pals in policing, fire and teaching. Not all in these professions do it, obviously, but those conscientious enough to care enough NOT to do it are eventually worn down by their colleagues (who don’t give a fuck – and it means the good ones end up paying for their skiving colleagues absences). Meaning almost everyone will at some stage be at it..
I know I’ll be downvoted, but noone likes facing the truth of our public sector and work ethic overall. Newspapers won’t touch it and politicians won’t either. It’s costing the taxpayer a fortune – and we wonder why we can’t afford decent public services.
Directly from the article
>“Official statistics show that there were 16,427 officers at September 30 and the Chief Constable stated that she expected numbers to reach 16,600 in November.
What, they didn’t even bother to get updated statistics? They just wrote down the first thing Google threw up about police numbers without looking at the outdated dates mentioned? wtf…
What kind of cobbled together article to add yet another ‘Scotland is shite’ story to the endless stream of Scotland is shite news stories going on for the last decade
(For clarity before you read the next bit:- I think ‘mental health’ is a perfectly acceptable reason for absence and in that job particularly, very fucking validated)
The real reason the number of “mental health absences” has risen so much is because before, writing down “mental health” on your self cert would have been fucking laughed at as an acceptable reason for taking a day off, fuck there’s management in a lot of jobs today that would still *want* to discipline you and stop sick pay for putting that down as a reason – it’s not because the level of shit the police have to deal with has suddenly massively increased or because suddenly the entire employee base just isn’t as thick skinned or something
It’s like saying the number of days off due to covid has increased exponentially since 2019
Police in the UK are mostly evil human beings last time I had an interaction with the police in the UK they were making jokes about poverty in my own house
Maybe because the polis are also having to be social workers, paramedics and mental health crisis councellors on top of enforcing the law.
Cant see how this is anything new and I’m sure it is and always has been stressful job along with paramedics and fire fighters. But the media need another “crisis” to generate interest and views
We need a fifth emergency service, mental health paramedics. Police joined to fight crime and protect the public from crime, not be blue light social workers/counsellors and not to support chronically underfunded ambulance services.
The mental health crisis impacts all public facing workers, who are often also victims to the contributing factors towards this nationwide crisis. So as well as dealing with our own problems, we are often placed in a position way outwith our job description to assist the public because you do so out of your own conscience. For example, I worked in fraud for a bank (on the phones) assisting customers when their payments were flagged as potentially suspicious, I was talking five people a day out of suicide on a daily basis. Could often be more. A young person gets a cashier job at a shop to get work experience dealing with money and customer service, not to restrain multiple shoplifters or protect someone from endangering themselves or others.
To conclude, people wonder why it takes so long to be serviced in a shop or when calling a company, nobody wants to work these jobs anymore. The police, teachers, NHS workers, paramedics etc are just part of an ever increasing cohort saying enough is enough. Solve the mental health crisis or provide more worker protection enshrined in law for consistency amongst all employers. Decorum went out the window post Covid.
Unfortunately it’s the same across the entire public sector. Everything is squeezed to breaking point.
I find it interesting when I see these reports, because I think about how many people have and will be potentially denied from having a career in Police Scotland due to having any of these “psychological disorders” on their record before joining. Regardless of them being highly suitable or not, I’d be concerned that they would refuse candidates at all sorts points on the spectrum or circumstances while the numbers are that high inside anyway.
Mebbe they should stop spending their days trawling social media for posts to take offence at and get out in the fresh air.
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