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Unison and Clarkson

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  • gardner1
    gardner1 Posts: 3,154 Forumite
    that unison woman is simply hateful. she makes my skin crawl. she always sounds like she is two seconds away from crying. she was on the radio at the weekend and it made me want to hit her hard in the face with a blunt object. ignorant hateful cretins. Clarkson for prime minister in my opinion.

    The real point is this: 4500 lefties called the beeb. Meanwhile 30m real people agreed with him and didn't bother calling in coz they were working!

    she reminded me of the weak kid at school who couldnt stand up for themselves and who's only answer was "i'am going to tell on you" in that whingey annoying voice
  • Emy1501 wrote: »
    The poll was from the BBC. Where is your poll or did you make your comments up? Actually she gets 13 weeks holiday not 10. Of course teachers in private schools get about 17 weeks and teach half the children for probably more money.

    Let's be honest here most office based people whether private or public do no more than about 4 hours work a day. At my place people take about an hour day for fag breaks and about another hour or so emailing and surfing and good part of the day chatting.

    I don't believe in strikes and I doubt the strike will get the public sector anywhere. What I suspect though is that once the changes come in plus the further wage freezes the private sector will this as a way of making their pay packages including pensions even worse than they are now.

    You've just summarised what is wrong with our country.

    13 weeks holiday !!!! OMG

    I should imagine you are in the Public sector as well, as anyone who behaves like you suggest, in the Private sector is out of work at this moment in time. Its coming home to roost - Public sector is slowly realising what the Private sector has realised for years. There are to many employees swinging the lead. Public sector employee numbers could be cut by 30% and no one would notice.
  • Emy1501
    Emy1501 Posts: 1,798 Forumite
    martinjade wrote: »
    You've just summarised what is wrong with our country.

    13 weeks holiday !!!! OMG

    I should imagine you are in the Public sector as well, as anyone who behaves like you suggest, in the Private sector is out of work at this moment in time. Its coming home to roost - Public sector is slowly realising what the Private sector has realised for years. There are to many employees swinging the lead. Public sector employee numbers could be cut by 30% and no one would notice.

    private school teachers get 17-19 weeks holiday and teaching 16 kids compared to 30 if you want to get rid of teachers and pay 7-25k a year under the private system no problem. She knows the head of a 30k a year school where she could get a job no problem. Cant really be hard teaching kids who's parents can pay more for their education than most earn in a year can it?

    I work in private industry and company made records profits last year. Unlimited overtime at the moment to cover those who spend most of their time chatting. I used to work for a failed bank before and it was no different. The private sector is no different to the public setor. I was told by HR recently that it can take up to 2 years to get rid of some who can't do their job properly unless you can get them for gross misconduct. Apart from theft I never seen anyone get sacked and any of the companies I worked for not doing their job properly and these include drug addicts.
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    Emy1501 wrote: »
    I work in private industry and company made records profits last year. Unlimited overtime at the moment to cover those who spend most of their time chatting. I used to work for a failed bank before and it was no different. The private sector is no different to the public setor. I was told by HR recently that it can take up to 2 years to get rid of some who can't do their job properly unless you can get them for gross misconduct. Apart from theft I never seen anyone get sacked and any of the companies I worked for not doing their job properly and these include drug addicts.


    People are the same whichever sector they work. Anyone who thinks differently is a Jeremy Clarkson.
  • Emy1501 wrote: »
    private school teachers get 17-19 weeks holiday and teaching 16 kids compared to 30 if you want to get rid of teachers and pay 7-25k a year under the private system no problem. She knows the head of a 30k a year school where she could get a job no problem. Cant really be hard teaching kids who's parents can pay more for their education than most earn in a year can it?

    I work in private industry and company made records profits last year. Unlimited overtime at the moment to cover those who spend most of their time chatting. I used to work for a failed bank before and it was no different. The private sector is no different to the public setor. I was told by HR recently that it can take up to 2 years to get rid of some who can't do their job properly unless you can get them for gross misconduct. Apart from theft I never seen anyone get sacked and any of the companies I worked for not doing their job properly and these include drug addicts.

    So why is she still in public sector ?

    Tried and failed maybe ? Please don't tell me she cares and wants to make a difference because I'll just laugh.

    Rules are just about to change in private sector to make it easier to get rid of people, you must have worked for some pretty stupid Companies if they employed drug addicts, mind you if you've got a HR department that speaks volumes.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    People are the same whichever sector they work. Anyone who thinks differently is a Jeremy Clarkson.

    I bet Jeremy Clarkson works extremely hard, dealing with all sorts of crap 7 days a week

    The fact that he thoroughly enjoys it is what singles him out, and makes him a star

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • davilown
    davilown Posts: 2,303 Forumite
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    having just read what he said, I haven't laughed so much in a long time. He's just said what most of the UK think.......
    30th June 2021 completely debt free…. Downsized, reduced working hours and living the dream.
  • withabix
    withabix Posts: 9,508 Forumite
    edited 1 December 2011 at 10:50PM
    The public sector unions are rapidly running out of people to put up for TV and radio interviews.

    Mark Serwotka has strangely disappeared. Well, possibly not 'strangely' seeing as his PCS union members pay him nearly £30,000 per year just in pension contributions (OOPS! :rotfl:) and he is positively obnoxious.

    Dave Prentis made himself look absurd this morning when he raised the Clarkson subject and threatened to run to the Police.

    The Unison woman on Radio 4 PM this evening just made herself and her union a laughing stock as she disappeared up her own sphincter live on radio.

    GMB are still saying that Clarkson's apology is inadequate.


    They will end up having to ask Wallace Milliband to speak for them. Unfortunately he doesn't even support the strike to start with...
    British Ex-pat in British Columbia!
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    TruckerT wrote: »
    I bet Jeremy Clarkson works extremely hard, dealing with all sorts of crap 7 days a week

    The fact that he thoroughly enjoys it is what singles him out, and makes him a star

    TruckerT

    Seem to remember he got told off about something to do with truckers.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    I've just used figures illustratively.

    You're telling me that someone on 250K a year is working 10 times harder than someone doing 80 hours a week for 1/10 of that.

    There are always going to be people, bosses, who get paid for the job they do, rather than the hours they put in. I'll give a classic example in the Dragons Den that's exactly what they do, they invest in other people and leverage off their time to make more money from products which they believe are going to be the next big thing.

    No I'm not telling you that, I just said harder, I didn't say 10 times as hard.

    Some chap investing £££ in venture capital isn't a great example. Bannatyne's "job" isn't dragons den. I don't work for the interest on my bank account but I'm not leveraging off your time.

    Further, how do you think the dragons got to where they are? It wasn't by clocking off at 5.
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