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500,000 Public Sector Workers Culled

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  • bendix wrote: »
    Indeed it will. Instead of paying them £40,000 a year salaries to be breast-feeding coordinators and another £10,000 a year to finance their final salary pension, they will instead be cost the taxpayer £5000 a year dole money.

    Lovely jubbly.

    OK, find me a breast-feeding coordinator on £40k. Did you read this in the same newspaper that found a London bus on the moon? Why come out with this asinine !!!!!!!!?

    I have two lads I've recently taken on doing P/T Motor Vehicle Studies at the local FE college. Now they've had a letter saying that they may not be able to complete the second year of their Level 2 course because the college is planning to shut its Motor Vehicle Studies dept due to cutbacks. Wonderful. We actually NEED these kids coming into the trade because there is such a skill shortage and we don't have the resources within the business to train them on all the latest electronic diagnostics and Diesel systems etc. So the MV lecturers will lose their jobs, my lads will not be able to finish their course and my business will have to try to poach qualified staff which costs us all more. Next nearest college is 20 miles away and they are not sure if they can take them because they are short of staff too!
  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well I know two young men, both aged 21, friends of my son who have been taken on temporary contracts with the local council. They are on the minimum wage but are both delighted because its the first job they have ever had. Somehow I don't see their jobs lasting with all these cutbacks. So they will be back on claiming benefits in no time, hopelessly looking for another job.
    The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best






  • tesuhoha wrote: »
    Well I know two young men, both aged 21, friends of my son who have been taken on temporary contracts with the local council. They are on the minimum wage but are both delighted because its the first job they have ever had. Somehow I don't see their jobs lasting with all these cutbacks. So they will be back on claiming benefits in no time, hopelessly looking for another job.



    They will go...
    Not Again
  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    They will go...

    Yes I fear they will.
    The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best






  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I'm starting to feel very depressed.
    The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best






  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    They will go...

    I'm surprised they are still there TBH. Most of our temps are gone.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    bendix wrote: »
    Indeed it will. Instead of paying them £40,000 a year salaries to be breast-feeding coordinators and another £10,000 a year to finance their final salary pension, they will instead be cost the taxpayer £5000 a year dole money.

    Lovely jubbly.

    Unfortunately those are the type of roles that will escape the axe as the people who tend to get those sort of roles normally get them on nepotism and brown nosing.

    The roles that will be going are the cheaper ones that we actually need.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • The percentage difference between the median level of full-time earnings in the public sector (£539 per week) and the private sector (£465 per week) widened over the year to April 2009, following annual increases of 3.1 per cent and 1.0 per cent respectively.

    if the parasite is larger than the host , it will kill them both ?

    statistics.gov.uk

    green
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    edited 19 October 2010 at 7:26PM
    >these people are blood sucking scum<

    Let's compare -

    a) Public sector manager, Grade 7 on £50kish, only benefit is pension. Heart in the right place if not very 'dynamic'

    b) Account manager in any of the outsourcing service companies now circling, £100K+, 50+% bonuses for hitting cost saving targets, Share options, company car. Only care, profiteering by shirking on contract and becoming partner.

    From 20 Oct, you are placing all your eggs in the b) basket (and his team in Mumbai)

    The Tories are about to pass ££ billions to their chums in Serco, Veolia, CapGemini, etc. etc. I'm sure the Condem Cabinet millionaires have already divided up the allocations of non-exec sinecures to come their way.
  • I'm surprised they are still there TBH. Most of our temps are gone.

    They have to get the low level temps out before any redundancies is made otherwise they will be paying out in the courts/tribs.
    Not Again
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