u/rewindanddeny

I adore WDYDY and have done from the very get go. As the feedback on here, podcast platforms, and the pod itself regularly goes, listeners are there to escape, forget their own problems and the state of the world for a bit. It's a wholesome, silly, arguably entirely inane pleasure for an awful lot of people. A little oasis of profound silliness in a desert of festering shit.

And then unfortunately there's often a Reddit weirdo, desperate for attention presumably. From a glance at some recent episodes on here, you've got someone going out of their way to say how 'profoundly unfunny' Lara Ricote was, that they didn't laugh once at Paul Foot, and recommending that people swerve that entire episode entirely.

Apart from the absolute obviousness of taste in humour being entirely subjective, I can't get my head around what drives someone to essentially pop on here and essentially piss on someone's parade. Is it just that need for attention? Loneliness? Something else?

What makes someone take to Reddit when they're not a fan of a particular guest just to put the boot in? It's the absolute antithesis of what the pod is all about. Inevitably we all enjoy some guests more than others and there has been the odd one (although only one who may actually have deserved a bit of stick) that I haven't enjoyed too much. But, and I suspect i'm representative of the vast majority of listeners, i've never felt the urge to come on here and slag them off, let alone think that my taste in humour is the correct one or in some way superior...like an absolute fucking weirdo.

Hmm, glad I got that off my chest. Back on topic, I learned on the Ricote episode that I was living on the same Finsbury Park street as Max back in the early 2000s. Centre of the known universe etc...

Be lucky.

Would be really interested to hear the experiences of people who have moved into non-clinical NHS jobs from elsewhere. For my part, I took a band 3 role at my local hospital for a change of scene as I head towards the end of my career, following many years in not-for-profit senior management elsewhere and the ruinous lack of work/life balance that came with it.

Have found it quite easy to drop any ego etc and there are many lovely people, but my God the management is so staggeringly poor. Every single day I come across situations that would not have been remotely tolerated anywhere else I have worked. Anybody in a non-clinical band 6 job or above seems to be either hideously and transparently out of their depth, entirely self-serving, contemptful of all those pesky patients getting in the way, or all three. I can walk away any time I like but I feel so sorry for my immediate colleagues, who basically have nowhere viable else to go and have to suck up all the bullshit visited upon them by these managerial parasites.

More happily, the admin staff are getting themselves a bit organised and have secured the backing of all the clinical staff, from consultants to HCAs and the department's management are suddenly looking very nervous, hopefully rightly so.

So, to my actual question. Have people coming in to the NHS later in their careers experienced the same or have I just been a little unlucky?

My long-serving colleagues seem to be divided between thinking that our management is particularly unhinged and dysfunctional, while others are adamant that it's the story of the NHS. Just wondering though as I fully intend to stay put and see how this all pans out.