So you think our Public Sector workers have a good deal?

StevieJ

Take a look at the sunshine state :eek:

California (BCAX) has paid Lina Manglicmot $1.5 million since 2005, an average of $253,530 a year, to work as a prison nurse in the agricultural town of Soledad.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-16/million-dollar-nurses-show-california-s-struggle-to-reduce-payroll-costs.html

nearlynew

I hope this is not going to be another one of your threads that nobody replies to steve.

newDude

nearlynew wrote: »

I hope this is not going to be another one of your threads that nobody replies to steve.

Yes, don't reply to it.

Road_Hog

I think that they should all be sacked and made to work for the private sector. That would stop them moaning about their current employment, terms, and pension.

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

Take a look at the sunshine state :eek:



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-16/million-dollar-nurses-show-california-s-struggle-to-reduce-payroll-costs.html

To be fair, working as a nurse in a prison must be a pretty grizzly job. I would want to be pretty well paid to do it.

I know a bloke who is a gaoler and I wouldn't want to do it. I've done some pretty crappy jobs in my time too.

Road_Hog

Generali wrote: »

I know a bloke who is a gaoler

I've thanked your post, for nothing else than using an old fashioned (non politically correct) phrase, gaoler.

Excellent. I suspect most people are going to read this thread and go, what is a gaol or gaoler.

Generali

Road_Hog wrote: »

I've thanked your post, for nothing else than using an old fashioned (non politically correct) phrase, gaoler.

Excellent. I suspect most people are going to read this thread and go, what is a gaol or gaoler.

I hate political correctness. I despise people that want to tell others what to say and think.

I don't like racism but people should be allowed to be racist IMHO. The job is the same if you call the employee a gaoler or an imprisonment operative. I wore a poppy when I lived in the UK but I don't expect anyone else to.

Political Correctness seems to be used increasingly by all parts of the body politic. Everyone is wrong to impose their views on other people IMHO regardless of what they may be.

RenovationMan

I'm not sure why the use of gaol is politically incorrect. Jail is just the americanized spelling of the English word gaol.

A non-american English speaker using the word gaol is simply using the correct spelling.

oldvicar

StevieJ wrote: »

Take a look at the sunshine state :eek:



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-16/million-dollar-nurses-show-california-s-struggle-to-reduce-payroll-costs.html

Just to be pedantic, this is a story from California, not Florida.

“The Golden State” has long been a popular designation for California and was made the official State Nickname in 1968

[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]“Sunshine State” was adopted by Florida as the State Nickname by the 1970 Legislature[/SIZE][/FONT]

ILW

"Sunshine" is a racist term apparently.

atush

Road_Hog wrote: »

I've thanked your post, for nothing else than using an old fashioned (non politically correct) phrase, gaoler.

Excellent. I suspect most people are going to read this thread and go, what is a gaol or gaoler.

With the Christmas Dickens coming up, won't everyone remember;-) That's where I leaned it lol.