Reply to: Council workers walk out over pay

[ace00]

I took the "self-starter" part of the contract blurb to heart and managed my own raise by:
a. Getting paid to post drivel here.
b. Nicking 1 bottle of mineral water from the kitchen area per day. That alone is nearly +2 quid extra to my daily rate. Boomed!

[Alf W]

Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "The pounds in local government workers' pockets are turning to pennies," he said.

"The cost of everyday essentials like milk, baccy, bread, stella, petrol, lotto tickets, gas, Xbox games and electricity are going through the roof - our members cannot afford to take another cut in their pay."

Unite national officer Peter Allenson said its members were "living on the breadline".

BBC

[TheBigYinJames]

I am pretty much in agreement though speaking as (an admittedly well-paid) geezer who hasn't had a pay rise in 3 years.

That's the otehr annoying thing, we only get pay rises when our skills and experience rise - we earn it. Not just because some union guy threatened not to empty our bins for it.

[chris79]

Here are my thoughts on the matter.
To the public sector workers:
We're about to go into a horrible recession. You have some of the most secure jobs in the country. If you don't like what you're being offered then go and work in the private sector where you won't be able to work 8 hours a week with god-knows how many flexi-days, duvet days, doss around pretending to work days and you'll probably get fired for being rubbish. Suck it up and stop complaining.

LOL! I like that.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Here are my thoughts on the matter.

To the idiot union leader I heard on Radio 4 this morning harping on about how the pay increases they were demanding were totally affordable:
Have you seen the state of our government's finances? Do you not realise that government borrowing is so high because of the cost of our bloated public sector? Muppet.

To the public sector workers:
We're about to go into a horrible recession. You have some of the most secure jobs in the country. If you don't like what you're being offered then go and work in the private sector where you won't be able to work 8 hours a week with god-knows how many flexi-days, duvet days, doss around pretending to work days and you'll probably get fired for being rubbish. Suck it up and stop complaining.

Disco Stu - next Chairman of ACAS (part time head of Relate)

I am pretty much in agreement though speaking as (an admittedly well-paid) geezer who hasn't had a pay rise in 3 years.

[DiscoStu]

Here are my thoughts on the matter.

To the idiot union leader I heard on Radio 4 this morning harping on about how the pay increases they were demanding were totally affordable:
Have you seen the state of our government's finances? Do you not realise that government borrowing is so high because of the cost of our bloated public sector? Muppet.

To the public sector workers:
We're about to go into a horrible recession. You have some of the most secure jobs in the country. If you don't like what you're being offered then go and work in the private sector where you won't be able to work 8 hours a week with god-knows how many flexi-days, duvet days, doss around pretending to work days and you'll probably get fired for being rubbish. Suck it up and stop complaining.

[Moscow Mule]

Does anybody else remember the last time there was rubbish left lying in the streets because of the refuse collectors strike?

When was that...?

Wasn't there a localised one about a year ago. Can't remember where though.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Any excuse for a bit of Shakespeare. Genius.

- Bloody Liar

This is what Richard III actually said,

Now is the summer of our sweet content,
Made o'er-cast winter by these Tudor clouds.
And I that am not shaped for black-faced war,
I that am rudely cast and want true majesty,
Am forced to fight,
To set sweet England free.
I pray to Heaven we fare well,
And all who fight us go to Hell.


As chronicled in “The Foretelling” part of the saga of Lord BlackAdder.

[shoes]

If you sacked half of them no services would be affected.

Just sack the right half. That'll be the ones striking.

[oracleslave]

Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me...

Tell me more, tell me more

[EternalOptimist]

I 'spose the whole quote is out of context really, being one of optimism and general good times all round (after war), rather than the context of industrial action by the binmen.

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
..............
.............."

Any excuse for a bit of Shakespeare. Genius.

To be, or not to be
that is the question
Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous Dim Prawn,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

[TimberWolf]

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
..............
.............."
.

Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me...

[Churchill]

Does anybody else remember the last time there was rubbish left lying in the streets because of the refuse collectors strike?

When was that...?

[ace00]

Summer

I 'spose the whole quote is out of context really, being one of optimism and general good times all round (after war), rather than the context of industrial action by the binmen.

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
..............
.............."

Any excuse for a bit of Shakespeare. Genius.

[DimPrawn]

What do I think?
"Now is the winter of our discontent......"

Summer