AIBU to think it wrong

[RandyRussian]

That money saved by cutting benefits should be used to keep public sector 'workers' in their cushy jobs?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334092/George-Osborne-sparks-Tory-fury-scaling-assault-public-sector.html

This really fucks me off. If the public sector is so fucking cushy why don't all the haters get a job in it instead of bitching all the time? Since it's so easy they won't have any problems at all will they?
I would tell the OP to fuck off but I'm too busy marvelling at my "gold plated" NHS pension, which given my gigantic annual salary will be huge. I have never worked any unpaid overtime or been expected to do the job of four people, no siree! I have never ended up having to carry over nearly all my annual leave because there weren't enough staff for me to take it, or missed out on very important professional training due to staff shortages, or been phoned to come in on my days off or even annual leave, nope, none of that has ever happened.
My cousin earns a princely £15k in his care assistant's job, he never gets to take his breaks, rarely finishes on time, looks after sick and dying old people, what a fucking overpaid twat he is
My ex flatmate who is a deputy head in a primary and does about 20 extra hours a week in her own time is also a lazy bitch who doesn't deserve her wages.
And don't even start on my DP and father in law who are civil servants and therefore get paid ££££ to sit on their arses all day, they don't do anything remotely important like helping to keep the courts running or whatever. Let's sack them all and your horrible capitalist children can teach themselves or become millionaires by running workhouses for us "workers" who are not even remotely necessary!

I feel better now :)
IABU but you drove me to it

Ooh, are those the guys who work in the sewage works? What fun! I wish my careers officer had suggested that one to me when I was young.

Or the binmen. Road sweepers are having a great time at the moment aren't they?

Wow, so many cushy jobs, so much choice.

What a stupid premise by this OP! Although I work in the private sector, I am truly grateful to public sector workers. The teachers who taught me and enabled me to go to uni. (Many of my friends are teachers - I know this is NOT a cushy number). The police who were extremely helpful when I got my car nicked (yes I got it back). Doctors and nurses who looked after me when I had a serious illness. The bin-men who collect our refuse each week. And what about our soldiers,eh? It goes on..... Cushy jobs for public sector workers? Pah!

So it's just me then?

I wonder how many of the previous posters 'work' in the non-accountable public sector and pass the time on here whilst waiting to collect their non-contributory,index-linked pensions at 60?

I recently starting working with some people in local government and it's been highly educational...

I'd say those who actually do the work are mostly excellent but many of the people I'm meeting who are very senior are not. They are narrow minded and more interested in retaining their empires than helping their employees or their citizens. It's been a horrifying and eye opening experience.

When discussing cost cutting their first thought is "make redundancies" regardless of the fact that the amount of money saved is peanuts in comparison to the deficits in their budgets.

mmm, I'll celebrate too the lovely teaching contract that makes it clear the hours you work/ get paid bear no relation to one another. I worked out as a newly qualified teacher if you work out the rate of pay and hours worked it rarely hits minimum wage.

Ha-ha ha ha ha ha ha. I've worked as both public and private sector, and I know where I had it easier. So yes, OP...tis just you!

I don't know who you've been talking to RR, but most public sector workers contribute to their pensions. Ask any teacher, nurse, doctor, fireman, policeman. It is true some don't, but their salaries are depressed by an equivalent amount. I earn far more in the private sector than my oppo in the public sector doing the same job.

Firstly, you haven't told us, again what wonderful job you hold to make such an opinion..

Secondly,

Thirdly, fuck off you utterly patronising twatbaggage

Has anyone considered that the OP is in fact an embittered benefits claimant, seething that she will probably end up homeless next year when LHA gets reduced? Meanwhile the stoneyfaced bag she has to sign on with once a fortnight will still be 'working' in the Jobcentre, albeit with a smaller pension and a longer queue of unemployed to glower at?

Unlikely for a DM reader I know, but I'm trying to be generous!

Fair point rod, though if that is the case, getting rid of more jobs reduces chances of work even more. (Saying that - have definitely dealt with some people working in the JSA department who don't deserve their jobs)

C'mon OP, fess up. What do you do that we drainers of the public purse should be so grateful for?

FWIW OP, until I went on mat leave a few weeks ago I hadn't been on mumsnet for 2 years because I was too busy, er 'working'. I work in the voluntary sector in a publicly-funded role. Because the local authority has contracted out my job, I have no pension or contractual maternity pay. If / when the funding for my job is cut next March, I will be very cheap to get rid of as only on a yearly contract. So you see I save the taxpayer a fortune. I'm sure you approve.

Meanwhile my DH works as a cover supervisor in a school. Since employing him a colleague at precious little above the minimum wage instead of paying for qualified supply teachers to cover lessons, his school is saving £90k per year. At the moment we are so skint he has had to opt out of his contributory pension.

Unfortunately DH and I are 'working' so hard saving the taxpayer a small fortune on our salaries and pensions, ends don't quite meet so we rely on tax credits to top up our income and pay our childcare. I suppose this makes us scroungers too???

So I'm afraid I'm with the other posters OP. Fuck off. I hope your bins don't get collected and you get rats. And that your kids don't get their GCSEs because they were taught 40 to a class with no textbooks. I'd like to hope you're left without an ambulance one day but can't, because like many of us who work in the cushy kind of job you take if you want to help others, I'm a nice person. So without any extra insults, just go fuck yourself.

Like Filibear I should also apologise to other posters for my immoderate language. I am angry.

Lol at twatbaggage though!

Also my post makes me look like a right moaning martyr! Actually me and DH both think ourselves very lucky to have jobs we care about that we believe make a difference.

Perhaps I should have made clear that by public sector 'workers' I meant people with titles like Equality Diversification Director,etc.

Having cleared that up maybe the harpies who have posted on this thread can get back in their cages now.

I work in the public sector and there are 6 of us in my office. Five so far know they do not have a job after March I know I am safe until the end of June .

I work for Childrens Services in Prevention (that means we intervene with families befoire it reaches crisis levels and Social Services have to go in - they can't a they are over stretched).

In a few years when the Daily Mail is full of headlines of children who have died at the hands of their parents due to neglect and abuse because nothing was done, remember your post OP and reflect on us, the public sector and our cushy jobs.

what a weird OP, a lot of the public sector jobs are some of the most important jobs for society, how do you think we would manage without them??

"the non-accountable public sector"

Ha ha ha ha ha.