A Midwife’s Muse

This is a winge. Yes, another one. In one way it is an incredibly selfish one as the reason why the situation has arisen is that a close relative of my new job-share has died and so she needs to take, is taking compassionate leave. However, if there was a teeny bit of slack in the system my rant would not have to happen as her absence could be absorbed. The problem arises because of a ‘knock-on’ from last week. Job-share was called to a homebirth and, due to there being no hours for anyone to take these visits from her, her appointments from then were re-scheduled for tomorrow. Now she is on compassionate leave and so there are 2 options; re-schedule again or me do them on my day-off. I did try the first option but the reception I received was hostile so I’m taking the second course of action. Wonderful, half a day of my own time gone. I won’t receive any pay for it and I won’t get the time back as there is not the time there because THE B****Y GOVERNMENT has tightened the reins to such an extent that there isn’t any room for manoevre. Once again a public sector worker is donating themselves to the public purse, and the powers that be are chuckling into their own generous pay awards.