'Austerity ' creating abusive professionals

I went into social work because I CARED. I knew people suffered, I didn't like suffering, I didn't like the hurt people felt. I wanted them to know justice, love, care. Of course it was mega transference. I never knew love growing up. It hurt. But inside I learned there must be healing. I hoped my work showed that love.

I am grateful my period as a social worker was in a different time. I barely had any conscious knowledge of budgets or constraints on what I could do. I never reached the manager level. Thank god. I went from senior to lecturer. In lecturing I never had to teach staff to work towards budgets!

We had a job to do and we were going to do it because we CARED.

I am appalled at where professionals are 'at' these days. Little more than social 'bankers', or worse, 'money lenders'.

 The 'social banker' is the manager. Restricting 'care'  because care costs. He / she is NOT concerned about social care, no, they are more concerned with their 'bank' and lie about, manipulate and reconstruct the client in order to save 'the bank'. It is power and it's political.

Thus the costly client is no more vulnerable, but aggressive. No more needy, but demanding, no more suffering, but exaggerating.

What's so pernicious is that complaint about the 'care' received is reconfigured by the 'social banker'...'we have given this client highly skilled professional care', which is never truly defined.

And when the client does define what passes as 'highly skilled professional care', well the Emperor
(banker)  has no clothes'.  nakedness revealed, maligns the client.

The 'rePositioning' of client as malicious, devious, coercive, aggressive...all saves money, saves 'face', re clothes the Emperor.  The 'social banker' is good at their job.

So who is the social 'money lender'? These are professionals who give but want interest back. The professional who demand gratitude, demand thanks, demand nothing but the grovelling client, created as ego builders for the 'social money lenders'. Anything less the professional destroys. For that professional power is needed by the social money lender who cannot function without it. The client, in debt, is a client powerless. And an ego protected from guilt, and shame for what they do.

I am appalled at how some professionals simply have no 'vocation', lost that inner guiding force of love.  They have been 'bought' by the greatest 'banker'. The political leaders(s).

Do they truly believe they give the best to the client?
Have they been brainwashed.

How could they BELIEVE  what they dare write or say?
How can they blame the client socially, emotionally, economically, medically,  'hungry', seeking help, and give

scraps, not a meal?


What has happened to professionals who give half a service or none yet justify it?
The OT not willing to challenge the crap wheelchairs they are asked to deliver to sick, disabled clients?

How can the social worker 'assess' the client as not needing a social worker full knowing the post is vacant and embargoed by the banker?

How can the podiatrist source cheep alleged 'orthopaedic ' shoes from china and argue they are 'good'!

How can the 'social banker' believe that saving money...is their vocation. Even if it strips the vulnerable to their very souls?

Each and every professional plays the austerity 'game', because they need their job and clients are 'sacrificed' on the altar of austerity so that they can keep their jobs.


They've lost that thing in MY soul when I cared for clients. It was called love.

And LOVE does not allow austerity.  Rebels and fights austerity. It is LOVE that ignited MY professional soul....oh I'm so proud that I LOVED.  and I DID LOVE...deeply.