State workers still enjoy advantage over private employees

BobQ

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

So I presume they were bought as a job lot then?

Obviously some departments would need the secure laptops, and others didn't. So in a way you can understand why they bought the same for everyone. Otherwise can you imagine the chaos if they all had different systems, that couldn't communicate with each other?

Anyway, I bet those toughbooks worked far better than the ones that I had to use.

MOD has a big administrative network supplied by a private firm who also supply the mostly commerical sofware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Information_Infrastructure

headcone

We all have choice,those choosing to work in the private sector are halfwits.
Considering the golden benefits of working in the public sector.

headcone

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Don't worry. I'm sure they'll send you on a 2 week course before too long. Teach you how to do it. Not too difficult.

Try to be a little less obvious you moron.

grizzly1911

chewmylegoff wrote: »

He knows that...

But why is this relevant. You dont need to be on the Internet to mck about and not do work.

If you have a desk job it does allow mucking about to be less obvious and more informative.

Jamie_Carter

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I earn more in the public sector than everyone else I qualified with (as an accountant in private practice) bar one person who went into investment banking. I would probably earn £10k a year less (minimum) in the private sector doing a directly equivalent job, I know this because people keep ringing me up and offering me £10k-20k less a year to move to equivalent jobs in the private sector. Oh well, another sweeping generalisation debunked.

Not at all. There will be accountant posts in private industry or far more than you earn. It's just that you haven't been offered those posts.

You can't just go on your own experience of what you have been offered.

Jamie_Carter

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Quite, your experience is just that, your experience and it doesn't make you right, it just gives you anecdotal evidence about your own life, which is no more or less valid than that the anecdotal evidence of others on this thread.

You mean just like you did in your previous post??

Jamie_Carter

andyroberts1967 wrote: »

I work in the public sector and I can't even connect to Facebook or any social media for that matter!

And rightly so.

Why should the tax payer pay people to spend all day on social networking sites?

Jamie_Carter

andyroberts1967 wrote: »

No silly, I didn't mean that I don't know how to connect to social media, I meant that our internet systems prevent us from doing so. Although apparently there is a pilot going on for Twitter in a few teams around the country, but this is purely for us to contact customers in a professional capacity.

Yes twitter is often used to publicise what some departments are doing. But you probably still won't be allowed to go on your personal account.

Jamie_Carter

headcone wrote: »

We all have choice,those choosing to work in the private sector are halfwits.
Considering the golden benefits of working in the public sector.

Most of the golen benefits are myths

Jamie_Carter

grizzly1911 wrote: »

If you have a desk job it does allow mucking about to be less obvious and more informative.

People aren't paid with tax payers money to 'muck about'