Italy bonds reach 8% now

The_White_Horse

well done public sector. why not retire at 30 on 200% of final salary. at the end of the day, you are actually helping unemployment.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

I'm a public sector worker, I might put that suggestion forward to my boss, see if they will increase my 35 paid holidays a year whilst I'm at it......:beer:

somethingcorporate

Fortunately your pensions only have one direction in which to go - to the benefit of the tax payer.

The_White_Horse

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

I'm a public sector worker, I might put that suggestion forward to my boss, see if they will increase my 35 paid holidays a year whilst I'm at it......:beer:

i don't know what you do, but I am 100% certain the country could do without it.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

The_White_Horse wrote: »

i don't know what you do, but I am 100% certain the country could do without it.

I'm a "performance manager" for a national helpline....

You need to put the Daily Mail down son, I fear for your sanity.

StevieJ

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

I'm a "performance manager" for a national helpline....

You need to put the Daily Mail down son, I fear for your sanity.

Much too late :eek:

Pobby

Rare for me to agree with Horsey. Yet I do think that the public sector requires a shake up. Friend of mine was being paid £60k a year. Retired from his public sector job at 57 on a £30k pension. Many of us have been self employed and to be frank a lot more will be or face life on the dole. No fat pensions for us. Annuity rates have fallen so low over the last couple of decades.

Should have bought property with the premiums I paid in. Hmmmm, maybe not.

Dan:_4

Leave off the public sector. Im happy with my job as a Project Manager - 55k a year, Car allowance, 33 days annual leave and final pension salary - you are all just jealous!

pqrdef

Pobby wrote: »

Friend of mine was being paid £60k a year. Retired from his public sector job at 57 on a £30k pension.

That's not normal. If it wasn't ill-health, they must have sweetened the deal to shed staff, i.e. incorporated what would otherwise have been redundancy pay.

Norfolk_Jim

Huh, I should be so lucky. I get 21k and work at educating challenging young people and with considerable success. Many of those I work with are well on the way to be institutionalised or joining the benefits system long term - I rekon I save you a fortune for every one of them I manage to move from being prospectless and unemployable to being employable and having some sort of vocational future even if its something fairly menial. Not all public sector staff are coining it in on fat cat wages, its a struggle for some of us. I've worked in private and public sector, private sector paid me well but once that job was gone I took whatever job I could do, first farm work then this. I didn't sit down and plan it all out and with hindsight I'd certainly have done things differently. As granny told me, if we were all wise there would be no fools

The_White_Horse

the public sector should all be sacked and forced to reapply for their jobs. at least 60% are not needed. we really must make a distinction between "nice to have" and "need to have".