Good
afternoon all, I have had a busy weekend, in fact hardly had time to
use the computer since around 8ish on Saturday morning, this morning
I managed to read and comment on about 30ish blogs and then I had to
take Leo to school and then to the shops to return something Jessica
bought and to get bread. Soon I will have to leave and go get Leo
from school then I have to take him to bowling it is the last day of
bowling and I have to remember to give him a half a tablet of his
medication before we go as last week I forgot and he was jumping all
over the furniture and wouldn't settle down.
Yesterday
we went over to Kathy's for Summer's birthday we gave her a bride
doll which she seemed to love it's eyes open and shut which Summer
likes as she likes to think of her dolls going to sleep at night.
I
made a potato bake for the party and cooked up 500grams of bacon and
Kathy cooked up some snags and Michael's mum made the birthday cake a
rainbow cake with pink icing, it was nice.
Also
yesterday morning Tim, Leo and I went to the shops I needed bacon for
the party and a new iron, on Wednesday while I was ironing Tim's work
shirts the iron just stopped working I was ironing the shirt and the
iron wasn't heating up.
Today
I managed to iron all his work shirts and work pants as well as one
of my shirts, as well as two shirts I bought for Jessica a few months
back. I had bought her 4 white shirts out of the 3 shirts 2 she
wanted one she didn't want which I have placed in my gift box and
will give it to someone at some point as a gift.
Kathy
was telling us yesterday that Michael got 9& ½ hours of work on
Friday he needs to complete 20 hours of unpaid work as part of his
training, I think it is wrong that people often need to do x amount
of unpaid work as part of their training, 20 hours isn't that bad but
I know of some people who have had to do as much as 120 hours of
unpaid work as part of their training.
You
also know what I don't understand how people can go around borrowing
money over and over again, if you have to borrow money each week you
need to look again at your budget and make changes so the money you
have lasts. Look at what running around you are doing in your car if
you are borrowing money for fuel maybe you need to stop going some
places and no I do not think it is easy but it is something you have
to do, if you seem to be running out of food try reducing the amount
of processed foods you know the type that you just shove in the oven
or microwave as home-made from scratch may be cheaper and better for
you. The always borrowing money never lets you get a head just my
thought, I have rarely borrowed money from anyone, it isn't something
I do.
Lastly
before I go mum may or may not be going home today she was still
waiting for the doctor to turn up to see her when we spoke at 1.15pm
she wants to go home she feels much better in herself and wants her
own bed and bathroom but we will see.
120 hours of unpaid training? What line of work is this?
ReplyDeleteNursing and child care are two of the jobs that you have to do so many hours for and there are others
DeleteOver here, I have heard of both paid and unpaid training. It all depends on the company taking in the trainees. Some are very generous to pay their trainees well.
ReplyDeleteI think they should be paid unpaid labour is just wrong
DeleteI am NOT in favor of unpaid training. In fact, I don't know if that is even legal here in the US.
ReplyDeleteI wish it wasn't legal here well not the having to do a hundred or more hours that is a joke
DeleteI am also way behind in reading blogs and will try to get caught up today.
ReplyDeleteI don't iron nearly as much as you do but I did just get a new iron which I like far better than my old one. Having a good iron makes a tedious job more doable.
As for unpaid work....I am also not a fan of it. Here in the U.S there are a lot of jobs that utilize unpaid internships. People do them to try to get hired in paid positions but I think employers take advantage. My daughter got her degree in nursing and did a lot of free work prior to being hired as a nurse in a hospital.
Yeah unpaid work when one is expected to complete over a hundred hours of work is a joke and so unfair, my sister in-law had to do over a hundred hours for her nursing degree also and Kathy had to 120 hours for her child care certificate it is wrong
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