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eyelinerprincess wrote: »

I was in home care for a few months. I can't speak for all companies, but the company I worked for:
Expected you to start at 7am, finish at 1pm, start at 4pm, finish at 10pm in one day.
Expected you to work at the drop of a hat (calling up the night before to ask you to start at half 6/7) when you weren't scheduled to be on.
Didn't pay travel time, so you *could* work a 6 hour shift and only be paid for 4.
Called a few times when I was in the middle of cooking for one client to ask me to hurry up because the next client needed the toilet.
Had zero travel time, literally you were rota'd in one client from 6:30-7, then the next at 7-7:30. The clients could be miles away!

I could go on and on, but I'm glad to be out of there.

I don't know about the bits in bold but the rest is true I think for most agencies. One agency in Portsmouth gave me back to back clients at each end of Portsmouth!

I didn't mind the last min calls when I first started but then I was young and didn't have bills to pay.

Oh my last agency never gave me the amount of hours I asked for, sometimes I'd have 10 others 40, mainly 10 especially when they knew I was looking to leave.