Today

[Snoopy]

 
The Work Experience is cancelled as the THW is working at the County Council and their HR Dept do not want her to cross the expected picket line. Thank you UNITE and UNISON for f*cking up a child's opportunities. That really gets people on your side in the argument.

If you don't think you get paid enough then change your job. If you cannot find a job that pays better then perhaps what you are selling isn't actually worth any more. Think about it.

[Bar Wench]

 

<slips away hopefully un-noticed as is unwilling to inccur the snoopy wrath>

[Snoopy]

<slips away hopefully un-noticed as is unwilling to inccur the snoopy wrath>

COME BACK HERE and say your piece like a man ~ woman.

[Bar Wench]

 

[Snoopy]

Seriously.

Everyone wants more money, everyone believes that they "deserve" more money but in truth are they actually worth more money? What skills are they selling? If no employer is willing to pay a higher rate for those skills then obviously the rate offered is what they are worth. Answer = get better skills that are more valuable to employers or accept that which is on offer.

Councils and LEAs do not have money of their own. They have a budget set for them within which they have to operate. Any additonal funding given to provide higher wages comes out of our taxes so we end up paying more for a bunch of people too idle to seek either better jobs or better qualifications.

[Barman]

I agree with you in part but when you see sop much waste… and that guy that lost the discs with all the information on it ‘retiring’ on £84K per year… and Gordo pissing off on a jolly with an 84-course lunch…

Sod it, if I was a bin man I’d have the day off too…

[Snoopy]

Nobody said it is a fair world ~ but remember what mother used to say ~ "Don't pick it, it will never get better if you do".

[Mrs TG]

The Work Experience is cancelled as the THW is working at the County Council and their HR Dept do not want her to cross the expected picket line. Thank you UNITE and UNISON for f*cking up a child's opportunities. That really gets people on your side in the argument.

If you don't think you get paid enough then change your job. If you cannot find a job that pays better then perhaps what you are selling isn't actually worth any more. Think about it.

surely she only gets today off ? sure it not end of world as all that crap probably put her off for life!
and she can go into another career that pays well!

Everyone will always moan about  salary etc no matter how much they earn, you only have to look at the poor MPs god bless there poverty stricken lives!

this is really pissing me off i tell you...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7496893.stm

This happened last wed, TG never got home till 7pm, as was stuck in city on bus for hour or so, and all other poor people who after a long day want to get home, who do these taxi drivers think they are, Besides the emergency issue, why do they want to waste there expensive fuel and and take it out on the public who are there customers, i am so so annoyed about this, they should either find alternative careers or go do there protests where the innocent public dont suffer 

[Uncle Mort]

They've been offered 2.45% which given the current rate of inflation (even using the government's massaged figures) means a pay cut.

Same work for less money?

[Barman]

They've been offered 2.45% which given the current rate of inflation (even using the government's massaged figures) means a pay cut.

Same work for less money?

Precisely...

The good news about all this is that it is bad news for Labour...

[Mrs TG]

They've been offered 2.45% which given the current rate of inflation (even using the government's massaged figures) means a pay cut.

Same work for less money?

We got a 2.8% rise so cant really complain, TG never got a pay rise for four yrs up to last yr, and got no chance at this moment with company crying poverty etc, I would defo be looking for another employment! 

[Just One More]

The Work Experience is cancelled as the THW is working at the County Council and their HR Dept do not want her to cross the expected picket line. Thank you UNITE and UNISON for f*cking up a child's opportunities. That really gets people on your side in the argument.

If you don't think you get paid enough then change your job. If you cannot find a job that pays better then perhaps what you are selling isn't actually worth any more. Think about it.

Many including myself crossed the picket line. My bins were emptied this morning, there are no absentees in this office this morning.

What totally pisses me off is that last year staff accepted the "Pay and Benefits Project" imposed on LA's by central government, at the moment, this leaves me £5,700 p.a worse off (appeal pending), and I'm one of many. People voted this one through, but are now striking for one or two per cent . This wonderful government reneged on the Police pay agreement, what chance do council workers have of winning?

[Snoopy]

To be honest what totally pisses me off is that the schools are shut for two days. Today because the ancillaries are on strike and tomorrow because the teachers are. Then back to school at 0900 on Friday to break up for the Summer Holidays at 3.30. What is the point?

If any of my children are more than 15 minutes late, even if not actually absent, I get phone calls demanding  verbal explanations and these HAVE to be followed up in writing. If one child has flu I have to inform the school DAILY of their absence or they will send an "official" round. They will not accept a call on Monday to say that the child has flu and the Dr says no school for two weeks. Oh f*cking no!

However they gave parents one day's notice of today's closure in which to organise child care, time off work or whatever. They are forever prattling on about the need for parents to observe the Home /School contract but when it comes to their side of that contract you can kiss my arse.

I have just been to the High School to collect something for my daughter. The Deputy Head and 8 other female staff fell out of 2 cars at 2.35. Pissed as newts. They had been celebrating a birthday. Oh yes ~ very responsible I'm sure.

[Nick]

I can sympathise with all that. For some reason the schools hereabouts are not on strike 

[Snoopy]

On the subject of Home/School contracts ~ The Head at the High School told me when I demanded a signed copy that out of almost 2000 children ALL of whom have been given a "Contract" for both the child and a parent/guardian to sign and return NOT ONE except me has ever asked to have their copy signed by a member of the school management team.. YES he did sign a copy for me, after I pointed out that a contract signed by only one party was not worth the paper it was printed on and YES I will hold them to every word.