Job Cuts - anyone worried ?

motorguy

Freefromdebt wrote: »

I have friends who are 1) teachers in primaries, 2) ancillary staff in primaries, others who are teachers in post primaries and some who are employed as ancillary staff in post primaries. The majority of teachers are quietly confident that the job cuts will not affect them, whereas the ancillary staff are waiting on their redundancy letter. Why is it schools will hold on to teachers who on occasions teach classes with no more than 5 pupils but will make redundant for example a kitchen assistant ?
It seems to be a case of 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'

You're very much taking the extremes here to justify your point of view.

Sadly, as others have said, parents and politicians would rather see ancilliary staff laid off than teachers.

Its the same in a lot of sectors. For example in the sector i work its fairly typical for the support staff to be hit first before the 'frontline' staff. That seems to be being applied to your sector too (and indeed to mine where i work in support)

Its difficult times out there and job security is a thing of the past, but instead of festering on something you see as unfair (and you are not going to be able to change), why not take the initiative and proactively look for other work?

Also, constructively, you might want to consider 'thanking' everyone who has taken the time to reply to your thread, rather than only those who subscribe to a viewpoint similar to yours.

Freefromdebt_2

pgilc1 wrote: »

You're very much taking the extremes here to justify your point of view.

Sadly, as others have said, parents and politicians would rather see ancilliary staff laid off than teachers.

Its the same in a lot of sectors. For example in the sector i work its fairly typical for the support staff to be hit first before the 'frontline' staff. That seems to be being applied to your sector too (and indeed to mine where i work in support)

Its difficult times out there and job security is a thing of the past, but instead of festering on something you see as unfair (and you are not going to be able to change), why not take the initiative and proactively look for other work?

Also, constructively, you might want to consider 'thanking' everyone who has taken the time to reply to your thread, rather than only those who subscribe to a viewpoint similar to yours.

As you can see I have been a member in Sept 2010 and am still trying to work out how to use this forum so I apologise for not thanking everyone.
All I was trying to say was that: some of my colleagues who are ancillary staff in schools feel like they are disposable commodities and a comment was passed to one of them by their line manager: 'Sure you could go work in McDonalds, teachers have degrees and couldn't do that'.
Yes, I do undertand there are budget cuts and they will affect everyone in the public sector and I wish anyone who is made redundant all the best in their job hunting.