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yellowlawn
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I thought I would start this thread and give people who work in or for the public sector a chance to air there thoughts/feelings on public sector cutbacks there situations and how you are coping.
Me and my other half work in the public sector and to say the atmosphere and general feeling at the moment is stressful and diabolical would be an understatement.
There is enough of us out there and I hope this becomes a popular thread.
Me and my other half work in the public sector and to say the atmosphere and general feeling at the moment is stressful and diabolical would be an understatement.
There is enough of us out there and I hope this becomes a popular thread.
Yellowlawn
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Hi,
I work in the public sector for a County Council and am being made redundant at the end of July. I actually work for Connexions and although we all were very aware that cuts were being made around the country, they were at anything between 30-50%. Our cut is 100%, which we didn't see coming at all. I'm not sure if we're the only council that is cutting 100% of Connexions service.
Oh, I must mention in fairness that some money has been found to provide an 'interim service' for young people until a new ' All Age Careers Service' is onboard - planned for September 2012. Thirty Eight new posts have been created for this interim service that have been ring-fenced for us 180 members of staff. We don't really know where they are going to be based within our large county though so those of us who have applied, have applied blind to an extent.
The loss of our service will be huge to the young people of our deprived town and other surrounding areas. We cover much more than careers guidance & advice. We work with young offenders, homeless young people, those in the Care system, the unemployed, young mums and dads, those with drugs/alcohol issues and even those who want to go to Uni or work! Where the help and support we offer now will be post July is anyone's guess.
We're all totally devastated by the loss of this service that we've all been so proud to offer and we know we've made a real difference to the lives of many, many young people.
We all feel totally de-motivated and concerned about money, mortgages, young children and our bills. We all understand cuts have to be made but this is more than just affecting us staff, it's the massive impact on the young people & their families that will be felt for a very long time.
And breathe...................rant over :mad:0 -
We all feel totally de-motivated and concerned about money, mortgages, young children and our bills.
Welcome to the real world folks!
Although I sympathise fully with the current situation many of you are in, it could be argued the public sector have been relatively immune to the economic maelstrom encountered by the private sector for quite some time now.
Many (not all) will have the opportunity to leave on a voluntary redundancy scheme with enhanced packages and pensions (paid by the rest of us) whereas many private sector employees would only get a basic redundancy payment.
As 'Call Me Dave' says, we are all in this together!0 -
i work in the public sector and our department needs to make savings of 1.5 million over the next few years.
the poor kids will suffer. no more free holidays, no more free lap tops, no more 'just loosing their bus passes and getting the money for a new one,' no more insentive bonuses for just going to college. those poor kids.....
hope the staff dont loose their jobs though... now that would be a real shame.credit card bill. £0.00
overdraft £0.00
Help from the state £0.000 -
dickydonkin wrote: »Welcome to the real world folks!
Although I sympathise fully with the current situation many of you are in, it could be argued the public sector have been relatively immune to the economic maelstrom encountered by the private sector for quite some time now.
Many (not all) will have the opportunity to leave on a voluntary redundancy scheme with enhanced packages and pensions (paid by the rest of us) whereas many private sector employees would only get a basic redundancy payment.
As 'Call Me Dave' says, we are all in this together!
We're not leaving on a voluntary redundancy package and 34 of us out of the 180 are on statutory redundancy packages, nothing enhanced and no pension extras, just the contributions we've already made which will be frozen.
We all live in the 'real world' as you put it so nicely, thank you. We're all supporting each other as we're all pretty much in the same boat, although those who are enhanced packages feel bad for those of us who aren't, and we appreciate their sympathy for us.
We're working hard at trying to stay positive but some days are more trying than others, I'm having one of those days today as I've had to put in an additional meeting to one that I chair in order for us to select a new Chair person - maybe fairly minor but it does bring home that post July, someone else will be doing the job I've done very well for a year :mad:0 -
I work in the NHS.
Staff who leave aren't being replaced, and they aren't allowed to use agency staff to cover sickness absences.
The cracks are really really starting to show now.0 -
I work in the NHS and am experiencing "restructuring" at the moment. Having been through Agenda for Change 4 years ago which saw fit to increase our banding, we are now being downgraded yet given more complex and unpleasant work to do, again through Agenda for Change - though the real reason is that we are now under a new structure of management who have no idea what our work actually entails and no interest in it either except how our performance reflects on them (by what measure, who knows). Interestingly, none of these middle and higher managers are facing any kind of restructure or re-banding and I would estimate we now have 300% more managers in our department than we had 4 years ago. Back in the old days, cutting back in the NHS would mean getting rid of a lot of these managers rather than reducing the pay and number of front line and essential admin staff. How times change!
Morale is rock bottom, many people with a lot of experience have left or are in the process of looking for alternative work. Of course we are being replaced by very nice, though uncommitted young people looking to add something the their CV before heading off again 6-12 months later. Good luck to them as well, though it is very sad to lose so much wisdom for the sake of saving a few quid (and we really aren't talking large sums), which a more experienced worker can bring in many times over by virtue of the kind of work we do (whereas the managers do not).
When one looks at the bigger picture within the hospital (and probably many other hospitals), I can't help but feel that this is the thin edge of the wedge by which the American style of health care insurance will be brought in. Already a private company have taken over a one department and have their eyes on another. Unfortunately, these are interesting times.0 -
A-MS - I also work in the NHS and although the rebanding won't effect me at the present time (because i have only been qualified for just over two years), I am not likely to be able to get promotion in the next few years.. Although I will be expected to do a lot more. It's really disheartening and I feel sad for all those who have been in healthcare for a lot of years basically being !!!! on by the powers that be. Unfortunatly, there is nothing that can be done about the rebanding so we all just have to put up with it as with all of the other changes that get made without informing staff first.on the road to recovery..:o0
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I guess a more inclusive thread title might have been one that didn't matter if you were public or private...which might be why those in private sector might get frustrated and voice that here - but anyway I will opt out there0
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PS My harsh comments DO NOT apply to the NHS where I admire each and every person that works at anything from GP level down. I cannot say the same for the hierarchical management structure, but all the nurses, admin, auxilliaries, care providers - I know they do an amazing job. I'm talkign councils here.I'll have some cheese please, bob.0
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dickydonkin wrote: »Welcome to the real world folks!
Although I sympathise fully with the current situation many of you are in, it could be argued the public sector have been relatively immune to the economic maelstrom encountered by the private sector for quite some time now.
Many (not all) will have the opportunity to leave on a voluntary redundancy scheme with enhanced packages and pensions (paid by the rest of us) whereas many private sector employees would only get a basic redundancy payment.
As 'Call Me Dave' says, we are all in this together!
Certainly within local government there are no enhanced packages. People are leaving as they are despondent at the 2 years so far of pay freeze and those that are left have an enormous workload, a pay freeze and the public and councillors that don't care that there isn't the staff to do the jobs. The infrastructure is going to suffer a lot.
This is representative of all the public sector, I feel.0
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