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Everywhere, private or public sector, it's the same - metrication, statistics, risk management, health & safety and the rest. Its like a disease, reducing output and stressing the workforce. I've had serious issues with deciding whether to bother getting back in the swim since I was laid off last year, so Wicky's message and all the responses in this thread have prompted me to take a fresh look and change direction, though I'll have to think hard about what and where. Life's for living.
I so agree with you here, although I can only talk about the NHS, i've heard that it's endemic. It's like a constant barrage: stats, targets, mandatory training, policy changes, indecipherable policies, etc. Mostly, I would say, driven by the PC zealots and control freaks in government. Like diarrhoea it all comes dripping down from top to bottom (or should that be bottom to bottom) and, if you complain, middle managers will say 'i'm only carrying out orders'. Sound familiar doesn't it!
I was off for 3 months with stress due all these factors and another common one in the NHS: bullying.
The net result is that these mind-numbingly, STUPID, faceless people extract almost all available job satisfaction. Why? Because in the end you're painting by numbers. All initiative and flexibility is ferboten for the greater good of the regime.
I've been off work now for about 6 weeks having finished working as a bank nurse for a team in central London. And I'm frightened of getting back into it all again. I'm putting it off every day and my funds are gradually ebbing away.
My saving grace is that I have a small plot of land that I bought a few years ago (instead of another couple of ISA's) that I plan to build a little shack on. My aim is to grow my own food and live frugally for 6 months of the year, and to spend winter back in the UK for work. Well a man has gotta have some dreams aint he.
I'm amazed at this thread. I would never have thought that, on this little forum, there'd be so many affected by this. Astounding. Anyhow your'e not alone Wicky.
Edited by muddy, 04 June 2007 - 03:30 pm.
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