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From: SaladDodger on 21 Jul 2010 06:19 On 21 July, 11:06, DozynSleepy <nospample...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > I feel very sorry for people who are in a job just to pay the bills. ITYF that is the situation for the *vast* majority of people in paid employment. All this aspirational, "ownership", "empowerment", cobblers is just that in most cases. We had a bit of course thing with HR a few years back, and the HR droid was visibly shocked that most folk on our department considered themselves to be in a "job", rather than having a "career".
From: darsy on 21 Jul 2010 06:32 On Jul 21, 1:54 am, Wicked Uncle Nigel <w...(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > I also have three family members who work in the public sector and tell > me how hard it is, and how they feel threatened. They've all been > "redeployed" several times. Oddly, they've never actually been made > redundant. I know exactly how that is, and am going through another moaning-about- restructuring phase right now. > Which is probably just as well, because with the way they talk about > their day-to-day work, they're completely unemployable. Well, I started a (hopefully temporary) job in a pseudo-public sector organisation a couple of weeks ago, and no-one here appears to know what they're doing. -- d.
From: M J Carley on 21 Jul 2010 06:40 In the referenced article, wun.ukrm(a)gmail.com writes: >Forgive me. I live in the world where I'm one bad sales quarter away >from the dole queue (and have done for many years). > >And anyone who works in the private sector who believe differently is >deluded. CEOs of banks and hedge funds? >I also have three family members who work in the public sector and >tell me how hard it is, and how they feel threatened. They've all >been "redeployed" several times. Oddly, they've never actually been >made redundant. Probably because most public services are needed. -- Si deve tornare alle basi: Marx ed i Clash. Michael Carley: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensmjc/
From: Hog on 21 Jul 2010 06:48 ogden wrote: > The Older Gentleman wrote: >> Thomas <keensurf(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Life is too short to spend 40 hours a week doing something you don't >>> enjoy. Don't settle. Find something you do enjoy and chuckle when >>> they pay you for it. >> >> Oh yes. Yes. Yes indeed. > > For those of us who aspire to more than writing about sales of tinned > tomatoes, it's harder to live the dream. It really isn't you know -- Hog
From: Hog on 21 Jul 2010 06:49
Salad Dodger wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:24:22 +0100, steve auvache > <dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote: > >> Are you still on a final salary scheme? > > Yep. <applause> -- Hog |