@kippykip1@slipperysealss@PopBase Minimum wage is not liveable in the UK right now, plus the UK has high energy costs so running it for a week out of the year after you've already forked out the expenses to buy it. Isn't feasible for most people
@0xtinhchan@anishmoonka To top it off the UK has the highest energy bills in all of Europe, so ontop of AC units being expensive it would be expensive to run for a week. I know some households can afford that most can't
@wishmeluxury@mmitchafterdark I feel like this is needed to be specified when alot of people don't know what carers are (even in the UK) and there is apparently such stark differences between UK and US caring.
@wishmeluxury@mmitchafterdark Ok think of it like this way our job as a carer is to do the jobs that person needs to live but struggles with, we are thus first person responders, we report anything we see. Whether the client was ok, if they were having issues, if they fell. We don't really have much say
@wishmeluxury@mmitchafterdark Social workers advocate for clients but it's VERY hard for the council to agree with such arrangements. Say us and the social worker recognise a client needs more calls, thus the social worker is informed. However there are many people it must go through. The system doesn't care
@wishmeluxury@mmitchafterdark That's not true whatsoever. We can shop for the clients but that's with the money, we have to document exactly what we brought, how much we were given, what change left over and it's only physical money only. A social worker would buy an AC, not us.
@Havinzebud@blairvic02@Symply_rhoda1 Periods can affect your eating. Cramps can make you uncomfortable sitting at the dinner table. It's really not that hard to gather why she would mention it there.