The next threads will be started by Public Servant letting off steam.
As you say Public Sector workers are understandably angry !True. To be fair, I wouldn't begrudge them it. The steps had to be taken but it is still a very harsh budget for them. Going to avoid going home to my see my public sector family members for a while! Might bring them home a cheap bottle of whiskey!
Will this be from genuinely poorer health? - there was another thread which assured us that unwarranted sick leave was not tolerated in the public sector.I feel that we will see a huge increase in sick leave
My daughter's school already holds PT meeting school hours - giving the girls afternoons off.an absolute refusal on the part of teachers in particular to do any extra curricular work such as supervising games or holding parent teacher meetings outside school hours .
It's either reform or further pay cuts. I also thought that all this reform was promised in exchange for the last round of benchmarking?Any reform in the Public Sector is surely now aspirational as well.
Will this be from genuinely poorer health? - there was another thread which assured us that unwarranted sick leave was not tolerated in the public sector.
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Any reform in the Public Sector is surely now aspirational as well.
You are right of course , they have taken on the unions.Perhaps the government will realise they can take on the unions , and "reform" will be done in the in the ways it's done in un-unionised jobs.
Remember that the middle level management were hit with 10% reduction in the spring and have now been hit with another 8%. They've taken the biggest hit and will be the least motivated.
Whatever future savings can be achieved in the delivery of the public services, I don't think anyone can sit there this evening and say that every single public sector worker has not taken a big hit in their living standards in the interests of this Country.
I dont think we'll be seeing too many public servants on this forum in future months. They'll all either be working second jobs to make up for the income loss or will be signing on the dole because its not financially worthwhile for them to work anymore.
Whatever future savings can be achieved in the delivery of the public services, I don't think anyone can sit there this evening and say that every single public sector worker has not taken a big hit in their living standards in the interests of this Country.
While there are genuine hardship cases in all sectors, private, public, and social welfare recipients I can't help but believe that a lot of people could minimise the hurt by cutting out 40 fags a week, or 4 pints a week or maybe even making a lunch at home and bringing it to work a few days a week and forget your 11 o clock cappucino. Cut out newspapers two days a week or more. Also as regards petrol consumption make your littlle brats walk to football practice. They will eat whats put on the table then.
Don't want to state the obvious, but people can stop screaming for PS pay cuts now because pay cuts have happened. 'even last week' we were still in the middle of the unpaid leave fiasco.people have been screaming for PS cuts for months so why suddenly say 'oh dear, this must be really hard. Let's stop it now'. Why didn't you do it last month or even last week?
Thanks Yorrick. I already bring my lunch in 5 days a week, only buy a newspaper on Saturday and freeze all my leftovers to do for another meal. I also don't smoke. I hope there won't be any more threads on public sector pay but people have been screaming for PS cuts for months so why suddenly say 'oh dear, this must be really hard. Let's stop it now'. Why didn't you do it last month or even last week?
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