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| pom Member Since: 01 Jun 2010 Location: Worcester Posts: 1343  |
At last someone running a council who has a braincell.
Lets see more of it. Pom |
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6th Jul 2011 9:08am |
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| pom Member Since: 01 Jun 2010 Location: Worcester Posts: 1343 |
I see your point but I really don't think public services have got any better in the last 10 years. For example I cannot book an appointment to see the doc tomorrow or next week. I have to ring on the day and take my luck.
Councils foster a complaing culture. Oh my neighbours fence is too high/low/wrong colour please harass them. Instead of saying 'get a life' and puttting the phone down letters are issued, people are harassed etc etc. Loads of examples. They fined a local chip shop £5k for a sign saying fish and chips above his window. They are just not in in the real world. Coppers looking like robocop with all their completely unnecessary scruffy combat gear, or should i say fat robocop for most of them! Council housing being given to africans,muslims,pakistanis etc before locals etc etc If they think they have it bad in the public sector god help them when they have to work in the real world of 50 hour weeks with no OT, golden plated pension schemes, unlimited sick pay etc etc I really cannot muster much sympathy for them or their commie unions. The main problem with all the public sector wallahs is they do not have a customer so can do what they want when they want and still get paid, if you the tax payer dont like it tough too bad nothing you can do about it. Until that changes and the individual public can directly effect then financially sod all will change imo. How many teachers were sacked for being crap last year, not committing gross misconduct just being crap at their job - less than 12 in the entire UK. Farce really. Elected police commissioner, mayor, judge and Prosecutors. Yanks have it right. Who is going to re-relect a judge who serial doesn't jail pedo's or burglars ? That feels better 
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6th Jul 2011 11:50am |
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| DefenderOfTheEarth Member Since: 09 Nov 2010 Location: Cornwall, UK Posts: 1304  
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See above Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion. |
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6th Jul 2011 1:48pm |
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| Tazz Member Since: 24 Mar 2011 Location: Harrow Posts: 90
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I am surprised nobody has picked up on the fact that this contemptuous little toad is sat on a big fat £180,000 per year salary. His pension will be more than most council workers salary. If he was sacked then they could employ 6 more teachers.
I disagree with most of the contributors to this thread so far. Council workers are mostly paid below the average wage and do jobs few others would do. This cretin, along with a number of his cronies, are simply demonising public services and their employees as the cause of all our ills. As for pensions, if your salary is  poor then a pension which is based upon it, index linked or not, is not going to be massive.
I've not worked in local or central government and have no personal vested interest in the employment conditions of public servants other than I want my child to get to school, safely with the help of crossing attendants, taught well by teachers paid as professionals and that she can enjoy the local parks and amentities which have been well cared for. I also want elderly people to be able to call upon Social services when they need help. For all this to happen we need to pay people a reasonable wage and not bully them into accepting lower rates of pay through such Dickensian tactics. If you think this pillock's approach is going to save any money, then think about this. Many local authority workers have salaries which qualify them for Tax credits and Housing Benefits. Reducing their salaries wil just increase the amount of central government assistance they get. i.e. taxpayer saves nothing, but CEO of council gets a big fat bonus £50k for reducing his authorities costs. Tazz |
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6th Jul 2011 5:30pm |
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| 22900013A Member Since: 23 Dec 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 3140 
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Those who do accept this offer will do so with one eye on the job market as any trust they had before will not be gone for good - many companies now think they can make cost savings by squeezing the little men and women at the bottom until they burst. It was done to me and I though "stuff this" and left - my old employer, a regional power company, can't even be bothered to replace me. We were eight men understaffed before I left, depot was running at a loss. OT was banned, we were even promised bonus payments that were never delivered etc etc, management robbed us blind, sat with their high salaries, company cars etc whislt we struggled to even get PPE. HR didn't give a toss either. Companies who treat people like this will find it very hard to recruit in the future when the recession is allowed to lift. I say allowed as personally I think it was engineered, someone, somewhere is making an absolute killing right now.
These firms don't think about the "man in a pub" concept as I call it. If I'm peed off with my employer, I tell my mate down the pub, who tells his mates, and so on and so on, until nobody but the desperate will want to work for them. All these fat cat managers forget that its those at the bottom who earn the money, not them, they are just the face. Good luck to em I think, they're gonna need it! 2011 110 USW 1973 Series III 1-Ton 1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker 1969 IIA 1-Ton 1966 IIA 88" |
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6th Jul 2011 6:05pm |
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