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[BigonaBianchi]

NAIL CUTTER

£7.96 per hour
Flexible
Age UK Brighton & Hove
Age UKBH is looking for a new Nail Cutter to join our friendly and supportive team. We are seeking an individual who:

•Has experience of working in a health and care environment
•Is able to work flexible (weekday) hours
•Can relate to older people
•Can work on own initiative
•Home visits and Clinic settings
•Has good communication and administrative skills
•Car user essential
•Can work in and around the city boundary

You will be required to carry out home visits as well as occasional clinic work. Full training given.
£7.96 per hour.



Closing date Tues 4th June 2013

 

[Noodley]

Not quite getting the point of this thread...

 

[Beebo]

Eeeeww!

that's just a Chiropodist on the cheap!

My friend's wife is a self employed chiropodist, 90% of her business is old people's dodgy toe nails. I bet she earns more than £8 an hour.

 

[EltonFrog]

I am struggling to think of a worse job than that.

 

[yello]

They don't mention if they'll provide the bolt cutters and angle grinder.

 

[Noodley]

So, it's about "cheap labour" and it being a bit yucky?

 

[Arch]

I am struggling to think of a worse job than that.

Well, anything involving cold calling or selling in a call centre, for me. We all agreed at work, we'd rather work scraping fat off sewer walls than do that sort of thing.

Let's hope when BoaB gets too old to cut his own toenails that not everyone has been humiliated or priced out of doing the job...

 

[yello]

We get too many cold calls from call centres. One tries one's hardest to be polite....

 

[Arch]

We get too many cold calls from call centres. One tries one's hardest to be polite....

I adopt an icy Duchess tone and say "No thankyou!" loudly and put the phone down. It's as polite as I'm prepared to be.

I know people are doing a job, but I resent being pestered about something I don't want/need.

I think I'd rather hang out with the nail cutter.

There was someone on the radio the other day, unemployed, saying she'd do any job "even cleaning", but then said that all the cleaning jobs required experience. I felt it sound like she felt cleaning was below her, and yet she lacked the required skills, so in some way, it was above her in some ways.

Obviously, some skills are easier and quicker to pick up than others, but every job needs some skill, plus the ability to turn up on time and stick it out.

 

[yello]

There was someone on the radio the other day, unemployed, saying she'd do any job "even cleaning", but then said that all the cleaning jobs required experience.

I think I heard the same radio program! I wanted to know more about how/why her benefits had been suspended. She said something about missing job centre appointments due to illness but that seemed a bit harsh to me. There must have been more to it than that.

 

[green1]

Yesterday I saw an advert in Subway for 'Sandwich Artists'.

 

[Herr-B]

Are safety goggles provided?

 

[Hitchington]

I don't think it's too bad actually. Think of all the tea and biscuits/cake you'd get!

 

[Arch]

I think I heard the same radio program! I wanted to know more about how/why her benefits had been suspended. She said something about missing job centre appointments due to illness but that seemed a bit harsh to me. There must have been more to it than that.

Yes, I did wonder, although I'm prepared to believe in bureaucratic incompetence too. And I didn't catch whether they said what her preferred field of work would have been.

 

[postman]

My last job was seven years ago.I was a lamp lighters assistant.I jacked it in after a week,the bloke got on my wick.