tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post8039747058071071024..comments2024-02-10T12:12:06.028+00:00Comments on The Real Blog: Women and the great housing price inflation spiralDavid Boylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410159311875228620noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-53117934794983845572015-11-27T23:07:44.797+00:002015-11-27T23:07:44.797+00:00I'd say, there's a different story here. I...I'd say, there's a different story here. In Sweden, it relates more to how the nature of work has changed, especially for women, in the last 10-15 years.<br /><br />Women in Sweden tend to work in health care, in education, and in care for the elderly.<br /><br />Precisely these occupations have been radically transformed by a toxic mix of technology and a command-and-control managment style which has been made possible by said technology.<br /><br />A typical care nurse in Sweden has a schedule, generate by an it planning system, dictated down to the single minute (!) of how long it takes to travel between elderly patients’ homes, how long to feed them, how long to make their beds. Every action has to be confirmed electronically with a portable device to a central management database, which presumably measures efficiency and reports wonderful figures back to politicians. <br /><br />But all compassion in the job is of course lost. You can't tell a machine that patient B seemed down today and so I spent two minutes longer with her.<br /><br />The same development can be seen in education, where teachers are required to tick thousands (yes, thousands) of boxes in the it systems tracking their pupils.<br /><br />Social workers are another group - to a high degree females - that are tormented with similar software madness. When social workers in Gothenburg last year got their new it system for client support, it simply stopped working every day. Desperate clients turned violent when social workers could not tell if their benefits would go through, etc. <br /><br />We've also seen a strange epidemic of dysmally functioning payroll systems, taking it's toll on the women (mostly) who work in the economy departments. For example, in several Swedish regions, nurses (and doctors) have reported their employers to the Enforcement Authority - they simply were not payed their proper salaries. <br /><br />It's a problem that only recently has been acknowledged. They are the focus of my book "Jävla skitsystem ("Stupid bloody system!") - unfortunately, for the moment only in Swedish. You can read a bit more about it in English, however, at http://stupidsystem.org/.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-78665289529312075812015-11-11T15:48:17.103+00:002015-11-11T15:48:17.103+00:00Oh Lord,
I can’t watch Nigella’s cooking show wi...Oh Lord, <br /><br />I can’t watch Nigella’s cooking show without sniggering, her domestic Goddess was built on a total lie. Betty Friedan must be in hysterics. <br /><br />Another thing we are going to be blamed for. Not only we are emasculating the men, but also we are the reason why they can’t afford the pad of their dream. Give over please. Get the salts. <br />It was only a little while ago that we could not even own a bank account in our own name, but it is still Eve's fault. <br /><br />Anxiety and stress are the maladies of our age. We have our face stuck on the shop window 24/7 and we are fed the illusion that if we had the stuff, our lives would be so much better. Narcissism is really bad for your mental - wellbeing on the long run, not just your credit rating. It is so close, on our phone even , yet so far away if you do not have the money. <br />Getting off the merry-go-round is not encouraged, there is no money on that. Illusion is still the opium of the people. <br />A smaller house is not a bad thing, less time required to clean it, because let’s face it, even after 8 hours slogging in a job, a woman is still going to clean it. Unless she has a cleaner ( and that is why immigration is a bonus). <br /><br />You want something to stress about, look up the level of the UK current-account deficit, why it is so huge, and how George has the audacity to lecture poor people to live within their mean. <br /><br />The times They are A-Changing. And yes Ronda Rousey is a woman, and Caitlyn Jenner used to be a man. Relax, don’t stress.<br />Oh-la-la Nonnoreply@blogger.com