Jeremy Clarkson does it again....

[chrisj900]

ha good point jembo, give the 1.5 million jobless something to do, although i wouldnt want any crack addicts teaching the kids :wink:

 

[Dav the wheel nut]

So Jeremy Clarkson has called for all strikers to be shot

Emile Heskey should be safe then :lol:

 

[wegras]

JC ..... .... :rofl:

 

[a11y]

It would be fun to actually run the country as a business and teach people what it is like in the real world.
I'd like to see civil servants live in a sales environment where salary is commission related.
Go through a period where turnover in the country is reduced by 60%, the value of the turnover left drops by 20% and salaries are affected accordingly. When i hear people out there moan because the level of their pay increase isn't enough (i know that isn't the current dispute) it makes my blood boil and, despite what the papers/press say, i think the bulk of people don't feel the civil service is hard done by.
We take too much for granted in this country, i'm afraid i don't feel we have the right to anything other than draw our first breathe and try and make something of our lives.
Ooops, time to leave the soap box, sorry :?

Got it spot on IMO.

And that's coming from someone who works for a local authority - I'm utterly embarrassed by the attitude towards work the majority of my work colleagues take. Typical local authority workers: in the job for life, no ambition or motivation to improve themselves - they'd not survive 2 days in the real world (aka private sector). I've worked in both but (unfortunately?) my job prospects lie within the public sector for the time being. Yes, us in the public sector have had no salary increase for years, but that's no different to the majority of the private sector - why should we be any different just because we're civil servants?

 

[pvr]

Nicely put a11y, but you don't seem to be the born and bread civil servant who rolled into the system at 16 and never done anything else.

My software runs in government departments (yes, every cheque someone gets has been through my system to validate it ) and the coffee jar mentality is weird, everyone their own jar in the drawer, 20 milk bottles in the fridge with your name on it, hours of discussion on who moved the sandwich in the fridge etc.

I am used to working to say 10 in the evening if I have to, but when on a government site - if it is 5 pm, and I only have 15 minutes or so of work left, they want me to come back the next day as they "have" to leave on the dot.

 

[flimper]

Go Jezza :guns:

 

[laser402]

I work in education an I agree with him

Was an easy days money for me

 

[aquazi]

I work in education an I agree with him

Was an easy days money for me

I got a few friends who are teachers... and their school had to close due to not enough teachers turning up for health and safety... yet my friends who didnt strike had to do a days work on teachers training!

 

[lacroupade]

Before I took VR from Hewlett Packard I was required to take a 5% pay cut...permanently, not just for a year or so. At management level it was 10% (thank f*ck I had no head count for a change), and at executive level 20%.....can you imagine the uproar if that happened in the public sector???

And on the amount I was earning that was no joke - I worked out that my annual tax bill paid for something like 24 people on jobseekers allowance.

And people wonder why I jacked it all in and downsized to live happily on a pittance.