Posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2018, at 22:21:22
In reply to Re: Feeling harrassed, posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2018, at 20:45:25
people have started speaking up about the inequalities in nz.
the money that goes to chief executives and the like.
less complaining about members of parliament, but maybe that will start soon.
the money that goes to 11x20 people sitting on district health boards in a country of 4 million people.
i see now the issue with nursing and medicine and even university academic isn't the pay scales on paper. on paper these occupations look pretty great, if money is your driver.
the issue is that people are required to take on the responsibilities of higher levels - without any of the benefits, however. without the title (for your cv). without the perks around conference attendance or around extra training. without the holidays. without the financial incentive to require a little less overtime of them.
and so people do it... have done it... that's how come things have been working as well as they have. in our universities and in our hospitals.
graduate students have been doing the work of lecturers have been doing the work of associate professors have been doing the work of professors...
all the way up to the executives and the like. who do all the work of... accumulating wealth towards themselves and crying about how we don't have the money to improve the student / teacher ratio or we don't have the money to employ senior doctors or nurses.
apparently the situation is one where people say they refuse to acknowledge their qualifications and / or they refuse to formally acknowledge their competency. people are competent enough to take on the responsibilities -- but nobody will sign them off as competent for what they have done such that they have the qualifications to be remunerated accordingly.
so we have people stuck indefinately as junior doctors. and we have people stuck indefinately as sessional teaching assistants. and so on.
and the chief executives think oh, what a wonderful world.. and, uh, pat themselves on the back as yet another one on the waitlist bites the dust because, uh, we didn't have the senior clinicians to clear the wait lists.
because they refused to hire them.
because they refused to maintain teh buildings and to keep up to date with the infrastructure such that accreditation boards would allow accreditation in their hospitals.
these are the choices they made.
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