Why Are Nhs Workers Being Given Free Food?

[dave50]

Item on BBC breakfast this morning reporting on this. Don't they earn enough to buy their own food?

[emmie]

Yes they do LJ.

[douglas9401]

Do the fat ones qualify too?

[Peter Pedant]

o god what a misery guts

the Kohn family Ollie, Josh and X are giving out free butties to the workers of all sorts as they go in to work at Ysbyty Wrecsam (Wrexham Hospital that is!)

well done Ollie, Josh and no 3 !

[Peter Pedant]

yes fatties are limited to 5 butties according to their notice

[ummmm]

I used to get free food at work. If they were understaffed they prefer you to stay on-site.

[tamborine]

my cousin, ward sister & mother of 4, worked nights, died of covid last week. No job is worth your life!

[tamborine]

No NHS discount for funerals.

[emmie]

sorry to read that tambo -

[campbellking]

Just to reassure those of you that seem concerned that us NHS workers are being swamped with unnecessary free food, at our hospital we certainly are not ( in fact our management have banned most donations). Yes I do go to the supermarket just like anyone else, do we get massive pay rises, Boris and his fellow ministers are always very keen to emphasize the 12 % given to the lowest paid, anything those of us on slightly higher scales received was pretty much offset by an increase in pension contributions. As for on-call pay, I get the magnificent sum of eleven pounds and fifty seven pence ( pre-tax) per evening, which rises to fourteen pounds per weekend evening. Don't think I will be retiring any time soon !

[CrapAtCryptics]

I personally think its rather petty to begrudge people who are effectively risking their lives every day a free meal.

[emmie]

no i don't suppose you will, now i have retired officially, i got on my Personal Independence payment a whole 30p increase,
i am not complaining by the way, just wondered what to do with it.

[Peter Pedant]

// my cousin, ward sister & mother of 4, worked nights, died of covid last week. No job is worth your life!//

very sorry to hear that Tambo, ( my condolences seems so empty at this time )

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I wanted to leave aside the old rules that so and so will not leave the Hospital ....

oh I must say, 2000s - GOSH ( yup Gt Ormond st) wd close its canteen at a really stoopid time - fri lunch time I think and reopen Mon 9am and make difficulties about on call staff feeding themselves

and the admin didnt give a toss if the resident staff ate or not

anyway to the leddy who has mentioned a 31 p rise in PIP
if you look at the rest of the cheque madam, you will see that it is not pennies - and untaxable
and not payable to dead people
but hey this is Mean Sunday innit?

[tamborine]

thanx for condolences. The worst part is that no family could visit or be with her due to x infection, only medic colleagues tended her for 3months it took to end.