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1st November 2014 #61
NO! These things don't happen overnight. What I'm saying is that those who are physically unable to do the job they applied for and wanted - and maybe had been doing perfectly well for 30 years - could be sidetracked into an admin role rather than say, "that's it, give me my pension", at whatever age it is now. The same as the vast majority of other workers in this country.
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1st November 2014 #62
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1st November 2014 #63
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1st November 2014 #64
Well it should be the same for the police and ex-forces Oh hang on, that would be 1000's of people needing desk jobs. In an ideal world that would be good, but it's not. Many people say that's the problem with the NHS - too many penpushers and not enough doctors and nurses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-shake-up.html
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1st November 2014 #65
Not sure about the police. They start off plodding the beat and then should progress up the corporate ladder.
Ex-forces are exactly that 'Ex'. They signed up for x amount of years.
Totally agree about the NHS though, they're haemorrhaging (excuse the pun) money, something I am putting a stop to where I can.
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1st November 2014 #66
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1st November 2014 #67
A fireman should be paid more than those oxygen bandits in Westminster. Currently MPs get more than twice what a fireman does and they don't even save lives, they just ruin them.
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1st November 2014 #68
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1st November 2014 #69
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1st November 2014 #72
Well I wonder how many MPs would go into a building that's on fire I'm sure not many of them, yet they get all the perks of being an MP, they get more holidays than anyone else for a start
145-day total is considerably less than the 224 working days most people in the UK work.
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1st November 2014 #73
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1st November 2014 #77
talking of dryers
anyone who suffers from eczema
http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/01/washin...czema-4930975/
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1st November 2014 #78
Joe, I'm re-assessing my opinion of you
My post about dryers was as about as relevant as your comment on MP's running into burning buildings to this topic
No you've turned my comment on dryers into a touching story about a little girl suffering from eczema and a washing machine
Joe, I have you sussed my friend With your skill at answering a question with something totally irrelevant but backing your views every time, then you must be a MP yourself.
Now all I have to do is find out which one
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1st November 2014 #79
it's not irrelevant when those MP's who have more holidays than anyone else, are forcing firemen to work until they are 60yrs old, who have forced them to pay more for their pensions, wouldn't do the job the firemen do
have you ever been in a burning building , I'd guess from your opinions from this post, no you haven't, maybe you would change your opinion if you had
as for random your pretty good at that when you've got no factual answer to post
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1st November 2014 #80
No, but I did have some lovely smoked salmon from Lidl tonight
http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/6764.htm?ac...etail&id=17887
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1st November 2014 #81
Anyway back on the topic fairplay to those who work in the Fire Service. If a strike is what it takes, go for it.
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1st November 2014 #82
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2nd November 2014 #83To all those who work for the Emergency Services
let's give the same praise to the civilian who jumps in a river to rescue a kid,or our brave soldiers having to stop and search a possible suicide bomber.
No one on here takes them for granted
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2nd November 2014 #84
Joe, I was happy in my job whilst doing the practical side of the job from 1960 up until 1980 but was almost happy from 1980 up until retirement whilst learning and doing the management side of the job, I suppose in a way I was exploited most of my working life but having said that I was grateful for having a job. Pay rises were the thing we never received, so in order to get a pay rise most people in the same job as I was used to change companies about every five years, luckily it was an industry that was always looking for workers and staff!
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2nd November 2014 #85
Sure, the world doesn't owe anyone a living, but as I've said you should be paid a decent wage for a decent days work.
It's still like that today, I know someone who has not had a wage rise in 14yrs, the only increase in their wage was due to changes in tax and the increase in the minimum wage.
Don't you think that's a pretty employer, when they don't increase your wage after working there for years ? And due to inflation, you've have less money to spend each year, many people get a increase annually.
People will tell you any job is better than no job, it probably is but that doesn't stop people being exploited by employers
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2nd November 2014 #86
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2nd November 2014 #87
I think it's fair they should trouser in the region of £40k. On the other hand MP's should be brought back into the real world and their salary should be on par with what the average person in the UK gets, which equates to about a third of what they currently receive. Too many of these politicians are only in it for the money.
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2nd November 2014 #88
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2nd November 2014 #89
True, how many MPs have saved anyone life ? not many
many have 'seconds jobs', one i posted about earlier was on £750,000 a yr, he had even left Parliament to go to his 'second job' in the real world he would have got sacked for that
How can he represent his constituency when he's doing another job
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2nd November 2014 #90
So let me get this straight, what you're both saying is that firefighters should get £40K a year. An MP's job is not putting out fires and saving peoples lives and therefore they should get paid £26.5K a year and this will prevent them going out and getting second jobs
It must be great living on planet Jamie & Joe
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