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Sep 2013
7:27pm, 27 Sep 2013
13,319 posts
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*jono*
sorry but I also think that Miss Perry is at best non discriptive.
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Oct 2013
8:56am, 1 Oct 2013
135 posts
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magnumpti
This teachers strike today. I completely agree with their right to strike but who exactly is this strike going to affect? Well lets say I was sympathetic to their cause to begin with and on Thursday the school tell us that it will still be open so that's us happy. Then on Friday we get a text to say the school is closed so we have to make arrangements. As me and the wife work on a Tuesday we have to get someone else involved. My Mum works so she can't have them so MIL has to have them. Except MIL lives 10 miles away on the other side of the city and doesn't drive so she has to come and get the kids yesterday, take them to hers and then bring them back this afternoon. All on the bus. So I haven't seen my kids since yesterday morning and won't see them until 6pm tonight. Slightly less sympathy towards the strike now.
Of course I could have taken the day off but I only get 28 days holiday a year, I don't get 6 weeks off in summer, 2 weeks at Xmas and Easter and odd weeks dotted here and there so I really don't want to waste a days holiday for nothing.
Then to add to that in our area (Hull) we get fined for unauthorised absence from school. Not that we would ever take our kids out of school for a holiday but this strike day is a wasted day for those kids. So say I wanted to take the kids out of school for a day to take them to the British Museum or Leeds Armouries or closer to home, The Deep, for an educational day out I would, in theory, be fined by the local authority. Yet today the kids are going to end up watching TV or messing about at their Nana's house and this is OK by the LA and the school.
I think teachers are doing a great job under difficult circumstances but ultimately parents are going to have no sympathy for teachers after this strike.
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Oct 2013
4:03pm, 1 Oct 2013
2,853 posts
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Wobbling
Firms who put role vacancies 'on hold' for no apparent reason.
And firms who drop the salary criteria for a role when you're half way through the recruitment process. I can't help but suspect they're fully aware the market in my industry is dead and are taking advantage of that to get someone at a bargain rate.
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Oct 2013
4:03pm, 1 Oct 2013
3,665 posts
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heebiejeebie
whatever.
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Oct 2013
4:06pm, 1 Oct 2013
27,482 posts
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Velociraptor
Meetings that go on for an hour and a half and from which I come away having learned nothing apart from the fact that all my patients are on drugs, which I sort of knew already.
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Oct 2013
4:50pm, 1 Oct 2013
25,890 posts
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JenL
"I think teachers are doing a great job under difficult circumstances but ultimately parents are going to have no sympathy for teachers after this strike."
Some parents will. I do. The teachers at Smallest's school weren't out on strike this time around, but we didn't know that until we turned up at the school gate this morning. I would have supported those who were on strike and I'd already arranged to have some of the kids at my house for the day if there had been a strike. There had been a few days notice of the possibility and all it takes is a bit of organisation and community spirit to minimise the disruption.
So people complaining about the teachers' strike really grinds my gears. And no, I'm not a teacher and neither is anyone else in my family.
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Oct 2013
4:54pm, 1 Oct 2013
3,668 posts
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heebiejeebie
What action short if a strike would you suggest? A strongly worded letter to Mr Gove?
The government's privatisation-by-stealth of our education system grinds my gears big time.
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Oct 2013
4:54pm, 1 Oct 2013
3,669 posts
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heebiejeebie
Also fat fingers on a tiny keypad.
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Oct 2013
5:22pm, 1 Oct 2013
136 posts
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magnumpti
Is the strike going to work though? Unless it's on a massive scale and over a long period of time like the miner's strike I really don't think that it does. I'd love better pay and conditions at work, hell a pension would be something I could only dream of but I work in the private sector so striking isn't an option. I bet a large percentage of teachers would rather not be on strike but the unions feel the need to flex their muscles every now and then. Unfortunately a strike has no effect on Michael Gove or the Union leaders, it only affects the people at the bottom of the pyramid, the parents, children and teachers.
I would like to point out that I'm not a Tory by the way.
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Oct 2013
5:30pm, 1 Oct 2013
1,203 posts
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Carpathius
HMRC tax credits 'helpline' people. Fucking stupid annoying jobsworth unhelpful lying fucking bastards.
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