If someone calls you a 'private sector capitalist pig'

[DodgyAgent]

Very open to anyone who asks to say I am a private sector capitalist, actually very proud of it.

What would I say to someone who said that to me?

...best not said on here but I would be making sure the comment provoked a punch.

Of course we agents are the morally acceptable face of capitalism

[fullyautomatix]

Are the public sector employees even capable of stringing a sentence together which involves words like capitalist, private, sector etc ? They are in public sector because they are too dim witted to ace an interview in private sector.

[lilelvis2000]

I get called that all the time, by my wife. Now I'd show her the door, but then who would do my washing?

[MaryPoppins]

So he's either delusional, or a woman. Or both.

[Jog On]

Are the public sector employees even capable of stringing a sentence together which involves words like capitalist, private, sector etc ? They are in public sector because they are too dim witted to ace an interview in private sector.

A lot of them chose and easy life with a "cushy number". I was a civil service permie once and I remember the agent selling these as the main benefits. Forget career/training/fulfillment -it was all about the recession proof job for life with a golden pension. Those that chose the easy life and have been in it for most of theri careers must be pretty livid. Bit of a nasty way to learn the harsh reality that no one is responsible for your financial future than yours truly...

Maybe they should all be made to read "Rich Dad Poor Dad"

[cojak]

wim121 called me a sexist pig for suggesting that men think about sex almost constantly. So he's either delusional, or a woman. Or both.

I was balloted once whether to have a one day strike. I worked out that it would take me several years, if we won and got the pay increase we wanted, to recoup that day's loss. French strikers don't lose pay when they go on strike.

Do they really??

(I missed that thread...)

[Old Greg]

Was gj actually called a private sector capitalist pig or was that just the inference? If the former, I would point out that a capitalist is somebody who principally makes a living out of invested capital (and thence from the surplus arising from the alienated labour of the working class), rather than from their own labour, so that it is not applicable to the self-employed. I would then send them to a compulsory re-education camp where they would mine salt until they understood what alienation was.