Your world stops when you are sick.

When you can’t go to work because you feel too sick

When you can’t walk your dog because you feel too sick

When you can’t do anything in the garden only look at it because you feel too sick

Then you must justify your reason for being sick

To save your place among the lucky few who are still on the sick pay scheme.

The reward is if you are sick, they take you of the sick pay scheme.

For every pound saved is a pound to be paid to directors’ fees.

Every service user retained in an inappropriate service is a plus in the profit and loss.

Every staff member screwed out of a benefit is a plus.

Every milage claim rejected is a bonus for someone.

Every penny pinched makes the rich a little richer.

The hours that are worked and not paid for are still claimed by someone.

Should some care not be given to the carers that make the profit.

Its not just the money although that is more important to the less well off than the rich.

It’s about genuine appreciation for the efforts that are made not lip service.

In an office it gets to lunch time and a plan is made get away from the desk and phone, you’ve been at work for three and a half hours you have earned a break.

On the shop floor it gets to lunch time you prepare someone else’s lunch no little walk to stretch the legs and take in the peace.

You have been at work for five and a half hours your next break is when your shift finishes maybe twenty-four hours from when you started possibly thirty-six.

We know this when we start this type of work and we do it because we choose to mostly, but carers are not just carers they are humans that would just like to be shown a little respect.