We haven't had a good Public Sector bashing thread in ages

Rabidlamb · 06-04-2012 02:26PM #1

You know how they go, we get the pitchforks out cause there all on €80k plus goodbye money plus huge pension.
Then some 2nd year clerical officer comes on telling us he's on €22k & has to eat his children.
We back off for a bit then some tulip gets banned.

Someone start us off there, I've to go drinking in an hour.

Birneybau · 06-04-2012 02:27PM

Boo hiss.

Ibtl...

Biggins · 06-04-2012 02:28PM

*gets flaming torch*

...and popcorn!

Mickey Dazzler · 06-04-2012 02:33PM

Ive said it before I will say it again all public sector works are ...... wait I got banned the last time I called them all scum so better not do that again.

dxhound2005 · 06-04-2012 02:33PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

You know how they go, we get the pitchforks out cause there all on €80k plus goodbye money plus huge pension.
Then some 2nd year clerical officer comes on telling us he's on €22k & has to eat his children.
We back off for a bit then some tulip gets banned.

Someone start us off there, I've to go drinking in an hour.

Lots of people calling for increments to be denied. Which would mean that someone getting a job at age 18 on a payscale with say 12 points would have to remain on the first point until retirement.

strobe · 06-04-2012 02:35PM

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

Ive said it before I will say it again all public sector works are ...... wait I got banned the last time I called them all scum so better not do that again.

Someone went to law school. Subtle man, I like it.

super_furry · 06-04-2012 02:36PM

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

Ive said it before I will say it again all public sector works are ...... wait I got banned the last time I called them all scum so better not do that again.

Yeah man, fight the power! Let's burn some nurses and hang some firemen!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-04-2012 02:36PM

Hey group, my name is 'Makikomi'.

I'm a public sector worker employee, a lazy bastard, rich and a scumbag.

/Phew that was easy, they say admitting it to yourself is the start of a cure!.

dxhound2005 · 06-04-2012 02:37PM

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

Ive said it before I will say it again all public sector works are ...... wait I got banned the last time I called them all scum so better not do that again.

Could you live with the shame if you discovered you had a second cousin who was a clerical officer?

Coriolanus · 06-04-2012 02:38PM

Melody Raspy Scalp wrote: »

Hey group, my name is 'Melody Raspy Scalp'.

I'm a public sector worker employee, a lazy bastard, rich and a scumbag.

[SIZE="1"]/Phew that was easy, they say admitting it to yourself is the start of a cure!.[/SIZE]

Plus you get to play with guns.

Gummy Panda · 06-04-2012 02:39PM

Melody Raspy Scalp wrote: »

Hey group, my name is 'Melody Raspy Scalp'.

I'm a public sector worker employee, a lazy bastard, rich and a scumbag.

[SIZE="1"]/Phew that was easy, they say admitting it to yourself is the start of a cure!.[/SIZE]

Stop complaining. You get to blow shít up!

AskMyChocolate · 06-04-2012 02:43PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

You know how they go, we get the pitchforks out cause there all on €80k plus goodbye money plus huge pension.
Then some 2nd year clerical officer comes on telling us he's on €22k & has to eat his children.
We back off for a bit then some tulip gets banned.

Someone start us off there, I've to go drinking in an hour.

" 'e's 'avin a go at the flowers now"

Rabidlamb · 06-04-2012 02:50PM

Never seen the forum as quiet, thought we'd have hit 10 pages by now, oh it's all the public service workers with they day off so they're not foruming.

super_furry · 06-04-2012 02:50PM

Melody Raspy Scalp wrote: »

I'm a public sector worker employee, a lazy bastard, rich and a scumbag.

I'm semi-state. I work hard but I'm still a scumbag.

ejmaztec · 06-04-2012 02:53PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Never seen the forum as quiet, thought we'd have hit 10 pages by now, oh it's all the public service workers with they day off so they're not foruming.

Friday's the day that they count their cash and tippex the expenses claims, very busy day.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-04-2012 02:56PM

super_furry wrote: »

I'm semi-state. I work hard but I'm still a scumbag.

I know its hard, but you're getting there.

Admit it NOW, you do not work hard.. Come on, the cure is near!.

Dudess · 06-04-2012 03:01PM

I hate those super-high earning street cleaners and their cushy lifestyles! :mad:

Larianne · 06-04-2012 03:03PM

Dudess wrote: »

I hate those super-high earning street cleaners and their cushy lifestyles! :mad:

I saw a really hawt street cleaner the other day in those little mini road sweepers.

Swoooooooooooooooon.

Nodin · 06-04-2012 03:04PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

You know how they go, we get the pitchforks out cause there all on €80k plus goodbye money plus huge pension.
Then some 2nd year clerical officer comes on telling us he's on €22k & has to eat his children.
We back off for a bit then some tulip gets banned.

Someone start us off there, I've to go drinking in an hour.

Something something civil service caused WWII blah. Something something disband the army. Blah blah disband the navy. Yammer yammer cromwell was right. Whinge moan gards have it easy.

super_furry · 06-04-2012 03:08PM

Nodin wrote: »

Something something civil service caused WWII blah. Something something disband the army. Blah blah disband the navy. Yammer yammer cromwell was right. Whinge moan gards have it easy.

Then Keith AFC comes in, says something vaguely related to the Queen, and we all have a party.

Freddie59 · 06-04-2012 03:10PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Lots of people calling for increments to be denied. Which would mean that someone getting a job at age 18 on a payscale with say 12 points would have to remain on the first point until retirement.

No. Lots of people on here asking that Public Sector workers be paid relative to the State's income.

Lots of people on here asking that the ridiculous "entitlements" be discontinued.

And - gasp - lots of people on here asking for their numbers to be reduced in accordance with the State's ability to pay.

Lots of people on here wondering why we're borrowing €400m a week to fund all of the above.

Hootanany · 06-04-2012 03:12PM

Its the Unions not the workers.

Rabidlamb · 06-04-2012 03:12PM

Freddie59 wrote: »

No. Lots of people on here asking that Public Sector workers be paid relative to the State's income.

Lots of people on here asking that the ridiculous "entitlements" be discontinued.

And - gasp - lots of people on here asking for their numbers to be reduced in accordance with the State's ability to pay.

Lots of people on here wondering why we're borrowing €400m a week to fund all of the above.

Next year will not be a good year for them.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-04-2012 03:14PM

Freddie59 wrote: »

No. Lots of people on here asking that Public Sector workers be paid relative to the State's income.

Lots of people on here asking that the ridiculous "entitlements" be discontinued.

And - gasp - lots of people on here asking for their numbers to be reduced in accordance with the State's ability to pay.

Lots of people on here wondering why we're borrowing €400m a week to fund all of the above.

Lots of people don't know about my free gym use too.. I couldn't possibly start my day without a sauna, pfft.

xflyer · 06-04-2012 03:17PM

No need to bash the public service. On the whole they are very neccessary and do a good job. It's just that there's too many of them in the wrong jobs, too few in the right jobs and it's costs too much money to run the whole thing.

The solution is obvious to everyone except the government apparently who seem to think continuously raising taxes from a smaller and smaller tax base is going to 'revive the economy'.

dxhound2005 · 06-04-2012 03:18PM

Freddie59 wrote: »

No. Lots of people on here asking that Public Sector workers be paid relative to the State's income.

Lots of people on here asking that the ridiculous "entitlements" be discontinued.

And - gasp - lots of people on here asking for their numbers to be reduced in accordance with the State's ability to pay.

Lots of people on here wondering why we're borrowing €400m a week to fund all of the above.

From what I can see it's mostly you getting yourself wound up about things too terrible to contemplate and wondering what happens if it all implodes. Maybe nothing terrible will happen and there won't be a word about it in ten years' time.

MagicSean · 06-04-2012 03:18PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Never seen the forum as quiet, thought we'd have hit 10 pages by now, oh it's all the public service workers with they day off so they're not foruming.

That's a mighty high horse for someone who is aiding his friend to defraud a bank and shaft the rest of us with his mortgage.

gerryo777 · 06-04-2012 03:25PM

Ah, Our mighty public service.
Jobs for people who otherwise would be on the dole......

mcmoustache · 06-04-2012 03:26PM

Could we not be a bit more focused in our public sector bashing? A lot of people like to group all state employees together as though they all had the same characteristics.

Personally, my only gripe is with the ones in the Civil Service who don't actually do anything. Anyone who's ever worked in the Civil Service (outside of Revenue - they're really good) knows who I'm talking about. The guy who's been there over 10 years who comes into his office and reads the Times till lunch, updates a spreadsheet or two, takes a brief tour of the office, browses the internet and goes home for the day.

These make up a small percentage of the Civil Service but they shouldn't be getting an industrial level salary from the state just to hang around the office.

mcmoustache · 06-04-2012 03:31PM

Oh, and before anyone pounces, actual public sector workers (AGS, Military, Nurses, Teachers) aren't who I have a problem with. It's the minority who don't actually work in the Civil Service but for some reason aren't being removed from the system that I think are a big problem.

Their very presence in there is cancerous.

dxhound2005 · 06-04-2012 03:32PM

xflyer wrote: »

No need to bash the public service. On the whole they are very neccessary and do a good job. It's just that there's too many of them in the wrong jobs, too few in the right jobs and it's costs too much money to run the whole thing.

The solution is obvious to everyone except the government apparently who seem to think continuously raising taxes from a smaller and smaller tax base is going to 'revive the economy'.

How is the tax base smaller if the population of the country increased by a million since 1991 and 500,000 since 2006 alone? And the number of people at work went up from 1.2 million to 2.1 million reduced now to possibly 1.8 million. What are the wrong jobs and the right jobs and workers you are talking about? And you must know that costs have been reduced and are continuing to be reduced with an expected €3.5 billion less for wages and 20% less PS workers by 2015 compared to 2008?

We haven't had a good Public Sector bashing thread in ages

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