MerylStreep
In my own experience some managers/owners can be uncaring.
A home I worked in was taken over by new management.
One of the residents had had a dog for some years. That went.
One resident came into care after her mother died, she had only ever known her mother. She would only talk to you through her ( dead) mother alone in her room.
The management banned that.
A discussion ensured between me and the management and I was politely asked to leave as I didn’t fit with their ideas.
Good God, that's horrific!
My SIL was in care - was head of Care in a Care Home. He started in care, and loved it, and worked his way up the that post pretty quickly - then came Covid .... he was working 72 hrs a week (but was salaried and was led to believe that he didn't get O/T) he didn't see his very young children nor wife, and was exhausted, but did it for his residents who he loved. (he particularly loved being with his dementia patients, not all carers can say that) It got however that despite doing all those hours, always because they were short staffed, lost carers for not getting vaccinated, off due to Covid etc he was getting 'shouted at' for not being able to do some of the less important 'paperwork'. He would be going in at 7am, doing a days work, then going back at 10pm because the staff on weren't fully 'meds trained', coming back at midnight then starting over again the next day. Missed days off because he had to go in because there was no-one else, agency staff were at a premium during Covid, there weren't many to go round all the care homes! It got to the point where it was making him ill, then came the day when he actually wanted to hurt himself so that he wouldn't have to go in. Got signed off, then couldn't face going back there again, so care lost one of the ones they should have been keeping. He is taking them to tribunal as when he resigned we spotted in his contract that he should have been paid for those hours! I think he will win .... since his old job has been up for grabs several times, and again last week! Company is 'apparently' not-for-profit, but what they do is take any profit, which there obviously IS, and plough it back into building more and more homes - which amazingly, they cannot staff! He is now looking into becoming a Paramedic, in the meantime doing something mindless whilst something crops up. You can't be a Paramedic though unless you drive - can't learn to drive as it's too expensive, so a bit stuck ... sad that the profession, which is what it SHOULD be, loses someone who cared ...