If only nursing was a valuable and important role within our NHS (and therefore, society). 🙄
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People who want to do public good – nurses, doctors, teachers, firemen, civil servants, et cetera – have been exploited mightily for a long time. Now it seems that they’ve been pushed past their limits: It’s small wonder, then that some give up on their ideals and preserve their well-being.
Aldi pays really well. A manager at Aldi gets paid more than a ~~scientist with a PhD~~ senior scientist at GSK.
Front line charity worker here.
When you get told to fuck off, get death threats, deal with people screaming at you solidly and be prepared to deal with overdoses and death and get paid a pittance because you care about helping the most vulnerable people in society. Not to mention the threat of homelessness and poor mental health caused by poor pay and your job.
Yeah, there’s a breaking point.
The thing is, it’s not just one industry that’s suffering and not just one industry that’s taking industrial action.
We’re at a critical point here in the history of the UK and the world at large but where will it end.
NB I’m happy to agree that I’m lucky, there’s literally billions worse off than me.
There’s a discrepancy between what brings value to the society and what is rewarded by the same society. It’s too complicated.
Really?
£11 an hour isn’t even £23,000 annually.
That’s before you consider the vastly superior pension that comes with the nursing role as well.
This sort of click bait nonsense doesn’t help further her cause
My previous department i used to work for advertised for staff recently. Interview day they had 1 person cancel and 3 no shows. Money is crap so they cant recruit
The banality and meaninglessness of retail is in itself quite stressful.
I could also with ny job but I won’t because I couldn’t imagine doing such a mundane job and not enjoying it.
They keep saying this, but no you can’t. Not at an entry level job anyway. You would need to be shift mangers and stuff, and a promotion would put you above even them, the pay scales are all public. You’re also on significantly less hours and stable jobs in shops with a much worse pension.
They are underpaid, but this kind of headline is still BS.
Quitting and doing agency was the best idea I ever had
People saying this is clickbait are missing the point (on purpose I suspect).
You can’t earn the same as a nurse at Aldi. You can earn a _similar_ amount without any of the insane life and death stress of being a nurse.
Problem is that the Tories want nurses and doctors to quit, so they can throw their hands up and say “guess the NHS is dead” and make it all private.
The more you learn about certain jobs wages, the more shocked I am.
Why would you even bother? The stess of these jobs, the irregular hours. Literally stack shelves at Aldi. Brain dead zero stress work, same money, if not more.
And more chance to progress. My ex started at Aldi and within a few years she was a manager on good money. Few more and she’ll be a regional manager with a work car and probably north of 50-60k a year
She can earn 33k-37k working on a till at Aldi ? Doubt it
Really wish nurses would stop pitching themselves against the rest of the workforce, even healthcare workforce, like they are superior to everyone. Aldi employees don’t get a cushy pension, they also don’t get a blue light card with all the perks that brings. Reward for service isn’t just the final paycheck, they get a lot more than Aldi employees and deservedly so but to pretend like life would be easier working in Aldi… Fucking lol
In principal she can in practice she’s never going to get guaranteed hours and a have a consitant source of income
As a doctor I can relate to the principle, although she’s not quite right with numbers, she’d take a pay cut.
There’s something about the ptsd inducing raw *carnage* of a wildly dangerous, busy or understaffed shift that just rocks you inside. You feel like you’d be underpaid with even 100 pounds an hour and your life got viscerally shorter for working it. Absolutely we would both take a pay cut working at Aldi. But that gut wrenching primal *terror* of everything going to shit relentlessly at the same time with you at the wheel would never happen again. It’s sorely tempting. I sometimes get very jealous watching people just, *chill* at work. Shoot the breeze, sit down, laugh. It’s alien to me and the grass seems greener. Maybe it’s not, but that’s how it feels.
I work in a professional career – emergency services, high stress and fast paced involving Critical Incident Management and Terrorism. I am paid well.
Imagine my surprise then to learn that Aldi Store Managers earn more than me! I mean I’m sure their job is busy and a little stressful? However also fairly sure is not ‘explosion in London gonna kill hundreds’ kinda stressful.
It’s either testimony to Aldi for paying so well or a disgrace that I am paid so little. I completely understand why people are moving to them.
I’ve heard the same thing from welders when a blue-chip Engineering firm was trying to recruit them. Loads of skilled trades/professions are underpaid in this country.
Striking as in, pursuing an industrial dispute, or striking as in eye-catching?
Well, off you go then – not sure the pension will be great at Aldi.
Earn similar per hour? Yeah sure.
Will Aldi also give you 6 weeks holiday plus bank holidays?
Will Aldi give you up to 6 months sick leave on full pay and another 6 months on half pay?
Will Aldi give you one of, if not the best pensions available in the world?
She should do a year full-time in Aldi and then get back to us.
This is bullshit. nurses start on 28k aldi is about 10 less.
This one is confusing
Should nurses get paid more? Hell yeah! Can a nurse make the same money at Aldi, Nope
Aldi starting wage for a store assistant is £11 if they could get the same hours as a nurse 37.5 (the avg for a store assistant is 25 hours) would be £21,450
A starting nurse (Band 5) avg is 37.5 hours a week at £13.84 or £26,988
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If only nursing was a valuable and important role within our NHS (and therefore, society). 🙄
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People who want to do public good – nurses, doctors, teachers, firemen, civil servants, et cetera – have been exploited mightily for a long time. Now it seems that they’ve been pushed past their limits: It’s small wonder, then that some give up on their ideals and preserve their well-being.
Aldi pays really well. A manager at Aldi gets paid more than a ~~scientist with a PhD~~ senior scientist at GSK.
Front line charity worker here.
When you get told to fuck off, get death threats, deal with people screaming at you solidly and be prepared to deal with overdoses and death and get paid a pittance because you care about helping the most vulnerable people in society. Not to mention the threat of homelessness and poor mental health caused by poor pay and your job.
Yeah, there’s a breaking point.
The thing is, it’s not just one industry that’s suffering and not just one industry that’s taking industrial action.
We’re at a critical point here in the history of the UK and the world at large but where will it end.
NB I’m happy to agree that I’m lucky, there’s literally billions worse off than me.
There’s a discrepancy between what brings value to the society and what is rewarded by the same society. It’s too complicated.
Really?
£11 an hour isn’t even £23,000 annually.
That’s before you consider the vastly superior pension that comes with the nursing role as well.
This sort of click bait nonsense doesn’t help further her cause
My previous department i used to work for advertised for staff recently. Interview day they had 1 person cancel and 3 no shows. Money is crap so they cant recruit
The banality and meaninglessness of retail is in itself quite stressful.
I could also with ny job but I won’t because I couldn’t imagine doing such a mundane job and not enjoying it.
They keep saying this, but no you can’t. Not at an entry level job anyway. You would need to be shift mangers and stuff, and a promotion would put you above even them, the pay scales are all public. You’re also on significantly less hours and stable jobs in shops with a much worse pension.
They are underpaid, but this kind of headline is still BS.
Quitting and doing agency was the best idea I ever had
People saying this is clickbait are missing the point (on purpose I suspect).
You can’t earn the same as a nurse at Aldi. You can earn a _similar_ amount without any of the insane life and death stress of being a nurse.
Problem is that the Tories want nurses and doctors to quit, so they can throw their hands up and say “guess the NHS is dead” and make it all private.
The more you learn about certain jobs wages, the more shocked I am.
Why would you even bother? The stess of these jobs, the irregular hours. Literally stack shelves at Aldi. Brain dead zero stress work, same money, if not more.
And more chance to progress. My ex started at Aldi and within a few years she was a manager on good money. Few more and she’ll be a regional manager with a work car and probably north of 50-60k a year
She can earn 33k-37k working on a till at Aldi ? Doubt it
Really wish nurses would stop pitching themselves against the rest of the workforce, even healthcare workforce, like they are superior to everyone. Aldi employees don’t get a cushy pension, they also don’t get a blue light card with all the perks that brings. Reward for service isn’t just the final paycheck, they get a lot more than Aldi employees and deservedly so but to pretend like life would be easier working in Aldi… Fucking lol
In principal she can in practice she’s never going to get guaranteed hours and a have a consitant source of income
As a doctor I can relate to the principle, although she’s not quite right with numbers, she’d take a pay cut.
There’s something about the ptsd inducing raw *carnage* of a wildly dangerous, busy or understaffed shift that just rocks you inside. You feel like you’d be underpaid with even 100 pounds an hour and your life got viscerally shorter for working it. Absolutely we would both take a pay cut working at Aldi. But that gut wrenching primal *terror* of everything going to shit relentlessly at the same time with you at the wheel would never happen again. It’s sorely tempting. I sometimes get very jealous watching people just, *chill* at work. Shoot the breeze, sit down, laugh. It’s alien to me and the grass seems greener. Maybe it’s not, but that’s how it feels.
I work in a professional career – emergency services, high stress and fast paced involving Critical Incident Management and Terrorism. I am paid well.
Imagine my surprise then to learn that Aldi Store Managers earn more than me! I mean I’m sure their job is busy and a little stressful? However also fairly sure is not ‘explosion in London gonna kill hundreds’ kinda stressful.
It’s either testimony to Aldi for paying so well or a disgrace that I am paid so little. I completely understand why people are moving to them.
I’ve heard the same thing from welders when a blue-chip Engineering firm was trying to recruit them. Loads of skilled trades/professions are underpaid in this country.
Striking as in, pursuing an industrial dispute, or striking as in eye-catching?
Well, off you go then – not sure the pension will be great at Aldi.
Earn similar per hour? Yeah sure.
Will Aldi also give you 6 weeks holiday plus bank holidays?
Will Aldi give you up to 6 months sick leave on full pay and another 6 months on half pay?
Will Aldi give you one of, if not the best pensions available in the world?
She should do a year full-time in Aldi and then get back to us.
This is bullshit. nurses start on 28k aldi is about 10 less.
This one is confusing
Should nurses get paid more? Hell yeah! Can a nurse make the same money at Aldi, Nope
Aldi starting wage for a store assistant is £11 if they could get the same hours as a nurse 37.5 (the avg for a store assistant is 25 hours) would be £21,450
A starting nurse (Band 5) avg is 37.5 hours a week at £13.84 or £26,988