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Question for anyone in private sector:
Have you taken a pay cut? And, if so, was it needed or was it an opportunistic measure taken by the company because there was an excuse to do so?
Pay freeze and no bonus paid last year, probably none paid this year either. Result was a net cut in pay for everyone. There has been a downturn in our sector of the economy but there has been no corresponding cut in the Directors' salaries, expenses or perks, they have increased yet again this year.
As with the public sector all the trimming is being done on the bottom instead of where most needed, at the top.
My mates two cents:
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The amount of money being spent has to be reduced, the country will be officially bust if we don't. The public sector wage bill, being part of this, has to be reduced in turn but I'm not sure where exactly. Personally I would imagine that the administration side of things could be targeted. You can't take nurses, teachers, and especially the likes of paramedics off the front line but I would imagine there would be scope for the back office roles to be reduced. In tandem with this an increase in taxes/levees across the board should also be considered.
I have not experienced any hostility from private sector workers (e.g. colleagues, friends, family) towards their public sector counterparts. I think there is a lot of paranoia in the air. A lot of people want a strike no matter what, and I genuinely believe that these people are creating so much hysteria and trying to drive a wedge between the two.
I work in the private sector and I believe that I should probably pay a bit more tax and in turn the public sector get paid a little less. It's nothing personal but just try to balance the books."
Your mate must be on a different planet if he hasn't noticed the hostility to public sector workers. I hear it all the time from family, in particular, but also general heads about the place, in the canteen in work, etc.
It's the private sector doing the giving out.
There's been a steady and heavy handed attack on the public sector in the media for the last year which has everyone in the private sector baying for the public sectors blood.
It's gonna result in another pay cut for the public sector in the next budget instead of the reform and reorganisation that the public sector really needs. The pay cut will make the government look like they're doing something while failing to address the real issues. The private sector will be sated while the majority of the public sector will be screwed and a huge amount of people will have less money to spend in a f**ked economy.
Meanwhile the majority of state agencies will still be bloated, top heavy and inefficient.
BTW: I don't work in the public sector either.
Your mate must be on a different planet if he hasn't noticed the hostility to public sector workers. I hear it all the time from family, in particular, but also general heads about the place, in the canteen in work, etc.
When people say "reorganise the public sector" and "eliminate inefficiencies" they mean "a bunch of people should be shitcanned" right?
Yeah - just take a look at boards.ie for an idea of the amount of hate being expressed.
People are missing the point completely.
1. Base your management decisions on a long-term philosophy, even at the expense of short-term goals
2. Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface
3. Use "pull" systems to avoid overproduction
4. Level out the workload
5. Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right the first time
6. Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous improvement and employee empowerment
7. Use visual control so no problems are hidden
8. Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes
9. Grow leaders who thoroughly understand the work, live the philosophy, and teach it to others
10. Develop exceptional people and teams who follow your company’s philosophy
11. Respect your extended network of partners and suppliers by challenging them and helping them improve
12. Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu)
13. Make decisions slowly by consensus, thoroughly considering all options; implement decisions rapidly
14. Become a learning organization through relentless reflection and continuous improvement
politics.ie is the spot if you want to see some real hardcore toolbaggery.
the whole thing is encapsulated by mary coughlan & john o'donoghue. fill your pockets or those of the connected elite, brazen it out & get cheered on when you go back to your constituency by the sheep that think its great to have 'one of our own up there'...
for the sake of argument, I'm going to pretend ireland is a company ....
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