Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post

I don't understand why people are so keen to "punch down" on those they feel are gaming the system,
If you were the hardworking (ancillary nurse) neighbour of my ‘friend’ and dragged yourself home after a shift of blood and guts and ten hours away from home, looked over the fence and saw that my friend has been sunning herself and glugging wine all afto, I think you’d want to punch down, I don’t know her personally but I have sympathy with her. And that’s the unheralded part of this equation, forget the cash side for a mo, my friend has (leisure) TIME that her worker neighbour, not on a great pay rate, will never have in her working life