Pros
The pay is great, the bosses boss is lovely friendly polite and comes across as easy to talk to and comes to the care home often enough. Pay lips on time, never late for a payday so far.
Cons
it seems the managers don't look in to why some one has been off. I am married with 2 children and took a few days compassionate leave as i found out my dad has terminal cancer (whilst at work half way through a shift on the phone!! AS my boss was on holiday i didn't leave until he got back so i didn't leave the team short staffed) and will probably die within the next 3-6 months so i took 3 days leave to travel 3 hours to go and see him. On another occasion before this, i had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled out on a Saturday afternoon under general anaesthetic and wasn't allowed to drive on the Sunday but i returned on the Monday despite the pain i knew i had to get back. 2 week ago due to the stress of my fathers illness and him now living at the other end of the country i was sick, not sure if it was a bug or stress or something i ate but i was sick and i work in a kitchen so i didn't go in to work but my next working day which was 2 days later i was feeling better and hadn't been ill so i returned to work. so 2 days off for my teeth a couple off for my dad and 1 day sick in 4 months of a new job. i Understand this this is very unlucky but if it wasn't for my dad being so ill and a diagnosis out of the blew my teeth would have probably been the only 2 days off. i am under enough stress as it is trying to find time (working 5 days a week) to see my dad whilst trying to keep this new job, i love my job i don't want to loose it, i wake up and have no doubt about what i want to do, i want to go to work! but because of these absences i have been put on another 3 months probation which scares the life out of me as if my dad dies before the 3 months is up and i need to go be with him im worried ill loose my job! management need to look in to things before doing this kind of thing!