What is the hardest job in the world?

[s(k)aturation]

Yep, any job where you are committed, philosophically and in practice - regardless of remuneration or recognition - to helping others in dire/critical need... is the general category I'd put at the top of the list.

 

Not enough of us fit that bill, unfortunately, and it's unsurprising because it takes perhaps more than the human spirit, our nature and condition was cut out for.

 

 

[Harry's Lad]

8 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

I really dont know how people have the strenght of character  to do this. Must be unbelievable hard.

It was really hard for her. She was still in training and not yet qualified and it made her question whether she could do the job or not.

 

Anyway, she continued her studies and qualified.

She's in a different hospital to Alder Hey but still a paediatric nurse.

They see some really heartbreaking things, I know someone has to do it, but there's no way I could.

[Bjornebye]

19 hours ago, Elite said:

No just from an educational/skill perspective. 

 

Undercover police officer has got to be up there for me.

 

You've got to live a complete lie ensuring your story is rock solid and you can't get complacent with it, are pretty much on your own within incredibly dangerous environments/people and are one slip of the tongue/leaked information away from being brutally murdered. Must be mentally exhausting.

Yeah I watched Deciet as well 

 

 

 

Paris Bostocks support worker 

[Guest]

Boxer. I can imagine there are loads who don't get big paydays but still go through the same shit as the big dogs. 

[Elite]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Yeah I watched Deciet as well 

 

 

 

Paris Bostocks support worker 

Funnily enough I haven't watched Deceit. Listened to a podcast with an undercover cop.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Elite said:

Funnily enough I haven't watched Deceit. Listened to a podcast with an undercover cop.

Your lies are your own 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

15 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

My Grandsons mum is a paediatric nurse. When she was training and on placement she worked on a children's cancer ward for a few weeks and during that time a couple of little ones died.

Hard isn't a strong enough word.

I was in Alder Hey at 16 on a ward with kids, one day they’re there, the next not. Harrowing and never forgotten.

[Harry's Lad]

Dealing with the people who are desperately trying to leave Afghanistan knowing what may be waiting for those left behind must have been bloody hard.

[Captain Howdy]

16 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

My Grandsons mum is a paediatric nurse. When she was training and on placement she worked on a children's cancer ward for a few weeks and during that time a couple of little ones died.

Hard isn't a strong enough word.

Yeah I reckon that must be about as hard as it gets. Must be great job satisfaction though when some pull through.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

16 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

My Grandsons mum is a paediatric nurse. When she was training and on placement she worked on a children's cancer ward for a few weeks and during that time a couple of little ones died.

Hard isn't a strong enough word.

I used to know a young bloke who was a Catholic priest. His life was basically religious school, then seminary; no experience of what you'd call the "real world". When he was a naïve 24, he was ordained and given his first job - Chaplain to a children's hospital, trying to explain to grieving parents why God had let their children suffer and done.

[Dr Nowt]

Tony Bellew’s ghost-writer.

 

The tedium. The self-loathing. The ‘How the fuck did it come to this?’

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Carol Vorderman’s silicone supplier for her ‘ natural ‘ look.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

16 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Ah, really sorry to hear that mate. Horrible.

 

That's where her placement was Alder Hey amongst others. 

I imagine it takes a special breed to be able to cope with the stress involved, massive highs when things go well to massive lows when they don't.

I know I wouldn't be able to do it.

When my sister died a few years ago, she spent her final week in a coma in a specialist ward at Walton Neuro. Considering the condition of people as they go into that ward, the survival rate must be pretty low. I would totally understand it if the nurses tried to insulate themselves by treating these unresponsive patients as "cases" rather than people; but they didn't. When, for example, they had to turn someone to check for pressure sores or take any tests or readings, they would address the person by name and make small talk. That inevitably leads to some sort of emotional bonding that must make losing a patient so much harder. They don't have to take that massive burden on themselves, but they do, so that the patients' families know that their loved ones are being treated not just with professionalism, but with dignity and care.

 

I could not respect them more for that. 

[Harry's Lad]

2 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

When my sister died a few years ago, she spent her final week in a coma in a specialist ward at Walton Neuro. Considering the condition of people as they go into that ward, the survival rate must be pretty low. I would totally understand it if the nurses tried to insulate themselves by treating these unresponsive patients as "cases" rather than people; but they didn't. When, for example, they had to turn someone to check for pressure sores or take any tests or readings, they would address the person by name and make small talk. That inevitably leads to some sort of emotional bonding that must make losing a patient so much harder. They don't have to take that massive burden on themselves, but they do, so that the patients' families know that their loved ones are being treated not just with professionalism, but with dignity and care.

 

I could not respect them more for that. 

I'm sorry about your sister mate.

I've been in the Walton Centre myself and know exactly what you mean.

 

When I was in there on Dott ward, there was a fella who was in with Guillem Barre Syndrome, he was only mid 40's and couldn't do anything for himself.

 

The poor fella was terrified and you could hear him crying during the night.

The nurses were amazing with him, kind, patient and caring. 

 

They are woefully  underpaid for the work they get through and the manner in which they do it and that is nothing short of shameful.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

I'm sorry about your sister mate.

I've been in the Walton Centre myself and know exactly what you mean.

 

When I was in there on Dott ward, there was a fella who was in with Guillem Barre Syndrome, he was only mid 40's and couldn't do anything for himself.

 

The poor fella was terrified and you could hear him crying during the night.

The nurses were amazing with him, kind, patient and caring. 

 

They are woefully  underpaid for the work they get through and the manner in which they do it and that is nothing short of shameful.

 

I'd rep you and AoT if I could. My sister is going into The Walton Centre this week for a major back operation,I took her there yesterday for a pre op covid test actually,but is terrified even though she knows how brilliant the staff are anyway. They absolutely deserve to be paid like the professionals they are.

[Harry's Lad]

6 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I'd rep you and AoT if I could. My sister is going into The Walton Centre this week for a major back operation,I took her there yesterday for a pre op covid test actually,but is terrified even though she knows how brilliant the staff are anyway. They absolutely deserve to be paid like the professionals they are.

No worries mate, and the best of luck to your sister.

[Kevin D]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chef-awarded-80000-after-boss-sexually-harassed-him-with-victoria-wood-song-fkvm730pq
 

A head chef at an exclusive Lake District hotel has been awarded £80,000 after his boss serenaded him with the “Let’s do it” refrain from a Victoria Wood song.

 

Sam Nunns had sued the Windermere Manor Hotel over claims that Andrew Wilson made a series of “disconcerting gestures” as he emphasised the suggestive lyric in the Ballad of Barry and Freda, which the comedian famously sang on the BBC in the 1980s. 
 

Nunns told an employment tribunal that his boss at the 19th-century country retreat “attempted eye contact” while gesticulating and singing the song, which relates the tale of a woman propositioning her introverted husband for sex.

 

Wood’s song, which she performed first on her sketch show Victoria Wood: As Seen on TVfeatures lyrics such as: “Let’s do it, let’s do it, do it while the mood is right. I’m feeling appealing, I’ve really got an appetite. I’m on fire, with desire, I could handle half the tenors in a male voice choir, let’s do it, let’s do it tonight.”

 

The chef argued that Wilson had repeatedly touched his thigh and bottom and lingered while hugging him while they were working at the hotel.

Nunns also claimed that Wilson, the hotel’s general manager, referred to a cucumber and asked him “do you need some time alone dear” and “I’ll put olive oil on the orders list again”.

 

Wilson was also accused of having “faked an orgasm” while eating the chef’s food, and then hugged and “mildly dramatised dry-humping” him.

Nunns told the tribunal that he resigned after repeated harassment and then sued.

 

Last July the tribunal in Manchester found that several of the incidents did not constitute harassment, but the judge said that the singing had violated the chef’s dignity and was humiliating. The behaviour therefore qualified as unwanted sexual conduct and as a result Nunns has been awarded more than £79,000.

 

The tribunal was told that the Ballad of Barry and Freda incident occurred in 2022 and the judge, Phil Allen, explained that “someone singing a song in a work environment would not normally amount to unlawful harassment. In another context, the singing of a particular song would not have amounted to harassment.”

 

He went on to note that the Wood song was “about someone propositioning someone else for sex” and that additionally the manager had given “particular emphasis” to certain suggestive phrases, which was “accompanied by eye contact and disconcerting gestures”. Wood died in 2016, aged 62.

 

The judge added that it was clear from Nunns’s evidence “that the song being sung to him in that way with the relevant emphasis had the effect of violating the claimant’s dignity and creating a degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for him”.

A spokesman for Windermere Manor, a former nursing home that was converted into a hotel in 1996, said: “This was an isolated incident, and the matter has now been settled.”

 

The 35-bedroom hotel is described as a “handsome building” with “beautiful gardens” and a view of the lake. It is situated between the Cumbrian towns of Ambleside and Bowness and was originally called Hammerbank, the home of Hubert Coutts, a watercolour painter and founder of the Lakes Artists Society in 1904.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Did she make him bend her over backwards on the Hostess trolley and spank her on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly?