better off in the public sector

[mrdonuts]

Not sure where you get the 8 weeks paid holiday, 5 if your lucky and then maybe a increase after working there for god knows how many years.

min statutory is 28 days i believe then they get all the extra days for this and that (e.g. turning up to work five days in a row merits an extra holiday type award)

[The_Equalizer]

For what it is worth you get about five days for Easter, the same for Christmas plus twenty-three days holiday plus of course bank holidays. That was at a university.

[Support Monkey]

Would you really want to be a civil servant though? it's not that great

Outdated tech
Politics
Lack of decision making

But to name a few, I found my time in the CS very frustrating

Tis all true, it will rot your brain in no time, i have never worked with so much dead wood and people cruising to pension time, and yes you can get 30 days holiday if you survive for about 25 years

[DodgyAgent]

it seems that to get the equivalent of Public Sector pension you would need to put 50% of your private sector pay into a pension fund and even then it would be subject to the vagaries of the stock market unlike the guaranteed PS inflation linked one

so am considering going for a Public Sector job

£45k job is really a £67.5k real job plus 8 weeks paid holiday a year plus paid sick days plus flexi time plus no pressure to deliver plus live at home

Your value in the permanent market will fall

[Old Greg]

it seems that to get the equivalent of Public Sector pension you would need to put 50% of your private sector pay into a pension fund and even then it would be subject to the vagaries of the stock market unlike the guaranteed PS inflation linked one

so am considering going for a Public Sector job

£45k job is really a £67.5k real job plus 8 weeks paid holiday a year plus paid sick days plus flexi time plus no pressure to deliver plus live at home

Try a day trip to reality, and then stick your toe in the job market if you like it.

[The Spartan]

A government department I worked at used to have charts on the wall for the staff to book time off sick in advance when I was there many years ago. I would doubt that they have stopped doing that...

I worked in Companies House and they had 29 days standard on joining and people still factored in how much sick leave they could take on top of that not too mention we could take up to 2.5 days a month flexi

[The Spartan]

Tis all true, it will rot your brain in no time, i have never worked with so much dead wood and people cruising to pension time, and yes you can get 30 days holiday if you survive for about 25 years

It sure is true, it drains any ambition you had out of you and then you start weighing up your benefits against those in the private sector and realise you're better off so you stay in the most mundane job in the hope retirement will come around quicker.

What is there to say that they won't change the pension again?

[DimPrawn]

Your value in the permanent market will fall

It's falling anyway with rate cuts, pay cuts and layoffs.

Take a trip to Spain or Cyprus or France and see which are the Brits smiling in the sun aged 50 with full inflation linked pensions, not a worry in the world. I can tell you now, they ain't been working in the private sector.

All ex-coppers, doctors, civil servants.

[SimonMac]

min statutory is 28 days i believe then they get all the extra days for this and that (e.g. turning up to work five days in a row merits an extra holiday type award)

28 days which include all bank holidays

[Support Monkey]

And your assuming you won't get tuped out to some private sector outsourcing company which is what has happened where i am and thats a whole new ball game, trying to get ex public sector to provide a private sector service back to the public sector, don't make me laugh