What is a good salary?

[I'm With Stupid]

The benefits bill is mostly made from people who are working but claiming Universal Credit because their pay falls beneath the threshold. Why is anyone who works full-time falling beneath a level deemed essential to survive?

And then to add insult to injury, this is characterised as giving people benefits rather than subsidizing the wage bill of private companies.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

My mum worked in a care home and still mates with staff

I feel like there's a word missing in that sentence.

 

[Scottyboi]

My mum worked in a care home and still mates with staff, who say loads of the younger ones just take the piss, turn up late than have a cig outside. Call in sick every 2 weeks because weak management have no idea on managing it

Low paid extremely demanding job in low morale staff shocker.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Low paid extremely demanding job in low morale staff shocker.

Low morale lol. My mum did that job from about 45 until she was 65, lifting people, wiping up piss and shit all the rest, never called in sick or turned up late. If they don’t like the job they can get another one, loads of places are always taking on staff. There’sjust too many lazy cunts in this country

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Low paid extremely demanding job in low morale staff shocker.

Nobody wants to work nowadays for the shitty wages I'm offering.

 

[Scottyboi]

Low morale lol. My mum did that job from about 45 until she was 65, lifting people, wiping up piss and shit all the rest, never called in sick or turned up late. If they don’t like the job they can get another one, loads of places are always taking on staff. There’sjust too many lazy cunts in this country

Yeah and my dad did it for years too, the owner was making a fortune whilst paying everyone just above minimum wage to look after dementia patients.

It's all well and good saying get another job the care sector is fucked as it is and needs major investment. And it is only going to get worse with us having an ageing population.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Well whatever it’s called, a rise from 580000 in the mid 1990’s to over 2.2 million in 21/22 suggests to me something is not quite right. We haven’t suddenly got 4 times the number of disabled that we had 25 years ago.

What is classed as disabled these days though, to many categories now for people to get into.

 

[melrose40yarder]

13 years ago called. They want their arguments back. The Tories fixed all of this after the last time they tried to blame everything on benefits, remember? It's all the immigrants' fault now. Didn't you get the memo?

The tories and the labour party have sorted nothing and never will.Dont get me started on our abysmal political system.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

To compound the issue:

The average person earning £30,000 pays 38% tax.

People with an income over £500,000 pay an average of 21%.

When politicians say that essential services are not affordable, it is because they refuse to address this issue.

The part of our tax system that is the most nonsensical to me is the clawback zone. It will understandably never get much sympathy because it only impacts high earners but it really is totally stupid.

It means a young professional with student loans on 100k who earns a bonus might only actually take home 23% of the bonus. Basically they pay over 30% more in marginal rate than middle-aged execs earning half a million (assuming all their income is just salary and not stashed in havens - if so the difference is even higher).

Make it make sense.

The whole tax code needs binning and re-thinking if you ask me.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Low paid extremely demanding job in low morale staff shocker.

The same could be said for many industries.

My dementia riddled nan died in one in North Manchester and three of the girls who’d cared for her attended the funeral. They couldn’t have been nicer.

I had an emergency ileostomy last year and received some special treatment from nurses. A couple of students used me as their case study and sat with me for ages.