Is it this bad everywhere?

jackieb

I forgot to add that it's been reported that 200 classroom assistants are to lose their jobs in Aberdeen due to council cuts. I thought those kind of jobs would have been pretty safe.

Really2

jackieb wrote: »

I forgot to add that it's been reported that 200 classroom assistants are to lose their jobs in Aberdeen due to council cuts. I thought those kind of jobs would have been pretty safe.

teachers yess assitants no. a lot are part timers.

fc123

dopester wrote: »

Trouble is fc... if I remember correctly, you got hammered with rent increases due to other firms moving in who could only survive in boom conditions. They helped push up rents, but as soon as they were found out by the beginning of the downturn.. didn't they fold, but left sound businesses like yours having to pay inflated rents that don't reflect realistic market conditions? That is really unfair.

I like your tales of retailing, and you do come across as positive, knowledgeable, focused & very entrepreneurial for your line of work.

Above pretty sums up our archaic, medieval rent laws...tho' our knight in shining retail armour (+ glossy yacht...how does one spell yott...boat with sails?) The Wonderful Mr Peee Green is trying to shake things up.


Shop leases (esp old ones like ours signed over 10 years back) are Fully liable to the lessee (that means they take you down if you don't keep up with the terms of the lease).
Ours has UPWARD only rent review clauses every 5 years...so, if rents fall in an the area or there are lots of voids, it doesn't follow the market down.

Our value is based on RECENT LETTINGS...whether they be Starbucks overpaying to prevent the competition coming into the area, some redundant banker with a fat sum in the bank who fancies trying out a lifestyle business or a chain whose business model relies on marking up by X15 ex factory on over branded, Chinese made tatwear.


Commercial property has been a fave investment over the years, as most of it, has leases like ours..the serfs at the bottom of the pond.

This serf is being potshot at.

I really need to summon up the courage to start a 'Me' thread but there are scarrry people on the forum at the mo.......

fc123

dopester wrote: »

I like your tales of retailing, and you do come across as positive, knowledgeable, focused & very entrepreneurial for your line of work.

Thanks for that...comments like that prevent headlines in the future going something like

''Designer/retailer ejects innocent customer in Brighton boutique. ''I just asked if a 30 quid frock was going in the sale? Then, without a word, she physically picked me up and plonked me outside in the cold and rain......which was annoying as I was only waiting for my boyfriend and killing time in the shop to keep warm''

fc123

double post???

PasturesNew

mewbie wrote: »

Edit: And, as it took me a while to realise.. you can't actually pluck a peasant.

You can if you tar and feather them first!

PasturesNew

jackieb wrote: »

I forgot to add that it's been reported that 200 classroom assistants are to lose their jobs in Aberdeen due to council cuts. I thought those kind of jobs would have been pretty safe.

When I was at school we had 40 to a class and one teacher.

If they've split classes in two and got an assistant and a teacher in each, they'll have to look hard at this now. All public sector wages and all benefits come solely from taxation. It's not the Govt's money. Something has to give.

IveSeenTheLight

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Your not a peasant plucker
But a peasant pluckers son
Your only plucking peasants
Till the peasnt plucking done

Try saying that when your drunk or fast

LOL just noticed I should have been saying pheasant, not peasant

Try again.

I'm not a pheasant plucker
But a pheasant pluckers son
I'm only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant plucking done

Ahhh much better

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I was at school we had 40 to a class and one teacher.

Yes, a very big change.

OH went to a state primary until he was 7 (then got whisked off to a Jewish school by his grandparents). His was a class of 35, just 1 teacher.

We visisted a primary last week we have in mind for Isaac. Class of 25, one teacher, two assistants.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I was at school we had 40 to a class and one teacher.

If they've split classes in two and got an assistant and a teacher in each, they'll have to look hard at this now. All public sector wages and all benefits come solely from taxation. It's not the Govt's money. Something has to give.

When I started teaching there were 40 in my class and no assistants. Mind you, the little [STRIKE]bu99ers[/STRIKE] darlings sat down in those days, didn't have ADD, tell you to PO, or even lock themselves in the bogs all afternoon because they were 'stressed out.'