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Originally Posted by Zizu
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. My time in secondary education is coming to an end at just the right time .. just a few more months and I’m done
I just wish I had gotten out at the time Covid first hit our shores as it’s been far more demanding physically and emotionally.
Your response was much appreciated !
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Haven’t got a clue about your individual circumstances and how exactly it was worse for you during Covid but what I do know is that if you’re not comfortable in one particular place, the management’s crap or you feel like your progress is being stifled (starting somewhere new and it taking forever and a half to sign you off as being medication-competent, even though you’ve been doing it for decades with your eyes closed), leave. Support work and stuff like it is challenging enough as it is. If you hate where you’re based it’s not going to work.
I’ve heard stories about how one place was without a manager for months in a row twice and it was left to the staff to manage, amongst all sorts of other appalling things that just wouldn’t run if that particular place was functioning in the right way. I’m surprised that terrible place is still going. Giving it too much of the rear end when it comes to enabling one or two particular residents and essentially throwing the staff under the water in the process is a red flag that signifies the need to get out of that place immediately. Better to hand in a resignation note and find somewhere more decent than work in appalling conditions like that. And when people do find somewhere better to work (in general but let’s just use support work as a point of reference since we’re talking about that), they get stuck in properly because they’re allowed to and actually comfy where they are, so it’ll be the best thing they ever did or experienced in that line of work. Working in filth that a Health and Safety inspector would have a field day about and where it takes forever just to get anywhere with them or have y’all concerns taken seriously just isn’t necessary, no matter how lovely the staff are. Chances are, they deserve better too. Definitely excuse yourself and run if sitting on second-hand bin-bags is what they want to reduce you to. Sometimes management will get back in touch to individual people who’ve moved on (not least because they want them back) but they’re usually not people anyone would want to hear from again once they’ve moved onto something or somewhere better.