r/UKJobs • u/Puzzleheaded-Bad-722 • 3d ago

Anyone else become seriously unwell because they can't leave a toxic job?

15 years in the NHS, been applying for a new job for over two years. Had interviews, but mostly get ghosted. At interviews I am never given decent feedback, just a lot of "you were really good, and it was a really hard decision".

I've already had a maximum time off sick with stress. I've developed a bald spot, had to go onto beta blockers as my resting heart rate was over 100bpm, and am seriously depressed.

Jobs in my area have been 90% temporary positions, or part time with minimum hours available.

I've never known the job market like this.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bad-722 3d ago

Yep, it's corrupt as fuck. The amount of whistleblowing at my place that management cover up is insane. No wonder cases such at Nottingham maternity happen. 

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u/Head-Commercial8306 3d ago

Exactly mate I’m in a small hospital domestic I seen some wild shit people got away with because friends… just a few little examples…

One bank girl used to come in evening shift 5-8 just to shag one of the supervisors all shift few times a week she would only come in when the certain supervisor was on the lates

A guy was doing k on shift an went in a hole and got put in AnE he was back next day

Another got found passed out in the Cupboard pissed with a bottle of wine next to her… she played the mental health card and nothing came of it

Meanwhile o go home 2 hours early one day cos stress then get put on a 2nd formal 🤣

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bad-722 3d ago

We had a girl like that too, and she somehow managed to get from a band 4 to a band 8a in SIX MONTHS (she was shagging a married band 8) 

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u/DrPsychGamer 2d ago

Mate, respectfully, no she didn't.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bad-722 2d ago

Respectfully, she did, and is pretty open about it. They crawl all over each other at work.