Quote Originally Posted by The AuldYin View Post
I was talking to a wifie I know the other day a "retired" nurse. She retired at 55 taking as big a lump sum as possible and a monthly wage (final salary pension) She then told me she went on some kind of NHS bank scheme for which she can work as much as she wants but the minimum of 1 shift every 3 months, this gives her full sickness and holiday entitlements. She's recently been on the Pat & Mick which entitles her to 6 months full pay and 6 months 50% pay. She is single and normally her pension would die with her but because of this bank malarky she's classed as in service and her bairns will get it along with I presume a payout. She's also a limited company since she retired because of tax implications.

Now get out there and bang they ****ing pans.
Public sector are well looked after.

And because so much employment in Scotland is in the public sector this won't change anytime soon.

What annoys me particularly about the NHS is this frontline pish when 77% of NHS workers aren't "frontline".

To sum up....nurses ain't poorly paid, very well paid, fantastic holidays and sickness entitlement, still 20% off at some shops, probably get to jump the queue at food banks ( not been to one ) and are absolved of any blame in the NHS being fairly ****e.