PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE 30th NOVEMBER

[cantaloup63]

@misterdubya - The only point I can really take issue is the reference to our "greed".

Perhaps if you can explain the figures from a superior mathermatical view, I would take that comment back. Can you provide a like to your findings? I would like to understand why teachers seem not to enjoy a good retirement.

I can't explain your figures for you, since you have presumably lifted them from somewhere or sat down with a slide rule to make some up yourself. I can only talk for myself and those colleagues I know, so even there I can't provide a link to my memory banks in my head to "prove" our altruistic natures. As for the full 40 years life expectancy, here's one that quotes 18 months for a head of department. We can all use selective figures to make a selective point

 

[cantaloup63]

Oh, and I should have reminded you that another reason that I can't teach you about those figures is that I'm actually on strike today

 

[LooPrEvil]

Madness, complete madness. Surely in a recession, we all have to take a hit.
I've just been told I will not be getting an increase in salary again this year (3 years running) and while costs increase to live I have had to cut my contributions to my private pension to offset losses elsewhere and even at that it's really not offsetting much any more.
Oh wait, I'll go on strike - the industrial equivalent of throwing one's toys firmly out of the pram.

Well if you are not prepared to fight for your rights then sorry, but dont come on here moaning - we can't do anything for you!!

Any way, vote Tory and this is what you would told would happen

Rights? What rights are you talking about. I'm private sector. Not soft public. What right have I to tell my employer what I should be paid. And that wasn't a moan it was a point (sometimes people do have them that differ from your views) saying that we all have to make sacrifices when it gets tough and being spoilt kids about it doesn't change the s**t we are in - like it or not!

Ok then, lets all roll over and let the gov do exactly as they wish. No wonder our rights are being diminished at every turn.

United we stand, divided we fall - no spirit, no fight then you are defeated.

 

[Alarm]

Oh, and I should have reminded you that another reason that I can't teach you about those figures is that I'm actually on strike today

And you said you would break the picket line................TUT

 

[Norcon]

Ok then, lets all roll over and let the gov do exactly as they wish

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"

John F Kennedy. Clever guy.

 

[joinerjohn]

No wonder our rights are being diminished at every turn.

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Ahh I see Loo, your an indigenous variety of British person. That explains why your rights are being diminished. Nu Labour gave them all away to the immigrants.

 

[cantaloup63]

Oh, and I should have reminded you that another reason that I can't teach you about those figures is that I'm actually on strike today

And you said you would break the picket line................TUT

Well, I intended to until my wife pointed out that we had to look after a our neighbour's children, and she (my wife) had an appointment at the hairdresser. Thus, for the sake of safety (my own ) I had no other option other than to support my brothers-at-arms. This has cost me a nett ton today. Never mind, I'l just have to do a bit of shoplifting and maybe nick a bit of lead from somewhere, as per usual

 

[joinerjohn]

Oh, and I should have reminded you that another reason that I can't teach you about those figures is that I'm actually on strike today

And you said you would break the picket line................TUT

Ahh but Canta broke his neghbour's picket fence instead. (whilst mowing the lawn )

PS Canta, you'd be better off nicking copper piping and wiring instead of lead. You get a better price for it.

 

[cantaloup63]

Ahh but Canta broke his neghbour's picket fence instead. (whilst mowing the lawn )

A colleague of mine said that she would only go into work if there wasn't a picket fence (and she's got a first class degree from Durham )

 

[cantaloup63]

Does anyone still do that trick of putting pebbles or lead shot into copper piping to get a better weigh-in at the scrappy?

 

[Alarm]

intended to until my wife pointed out that we had to look after a our neighbor's children, and she (my wife) had an appointment at the hairdresser. Thus, for the sake of safety (my own ) I had no other option other than to support my brothers-at-arms. This has cost me a nett ton today. Never mind, I'l just have to do a bit of shoplifting and maybe nick a bit of lead from somewhere, as per usual

Strange, so if your good wife had taken on the neighbours child anyway. The fact she needed a set and perm negated your day off.
Hmmmmmmm how convenient.

Local church nearby?

A ton..........so you clear 100 a day for all year plus pension and strike?

 

[cantaloup63]

Strange, so if your good wife had taken on the neighbours child anyway. The fact she needed a set and perm negated your day off.
Hmmmmmmm how convenient.

she's off anyway (recovering from a recent bunion operation). The neighbour is a teacher and had arranged to go XMas shopping with her husband ( a banker, just to make thing sound even better ) as she was off on strike. My daughter is off school, obviously. My workplace is too far away to have got back in time for her to go to the hairdresser.

Local church nearby?

Allah Akhbar

A ton..........so you clear 100 a day for all year plus pension and strike?

pro rata

 

[Alarm]

Awww a bunion

Hey, you know i`m having a giggle here.

Unlike some.

 

[cantaloup63]

Awww a bunion

Hey, you know i`m having a giggle here..

I know - I was just letting you know, since you asked and I couldn't be bothered to pm

 

[Norcon]

I wonder if these changes to the contracts and pension packages may help attract high quality people into these jobs in future

When the alternative is the dole que and soup kitchens the choice will be simple.