In reality a lot of government jobs are worse paid and have worse conditions than comparable jobs in the private sector. At least where I live the public sector is riddled with bureaucracy and incompetent management, especially in the jobs where you are supposed to do something useful, like teaching, or nursing or elder care. And ever-present austerity means that everyone is overworked, unable to feel the satisfaction of doing a good job and under constant stress.
I still remember when my school district shelled out ~300k $ for some consultants to show up and tell us that the kids play space would be nicer if the paint wasn't peeling from the walls and if we could build another playhouse that would be fun
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Same district that didn't have money to pay for painting the walls or building a new playhouse btw.
The school where my partner works has had roughly 30% of employees forced on long-term sick leave from work-related stress alone during the latest year.
This is caused in part by a budgetary death spiral in which fewer students leads to budget cuts that leads to worse service that leads to fewer students and in part by a management that is either incompetent or directly hostile and tyrannic.
The liberal inside me kind of expected someone in some official capacity to do something when a workplace destroys one employee after the other. But this has gone on for years.
All the socially useful jobs like teaching, nursing and home care are being demolished by austerity and have been since the days of noted warcriminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen. At my useless e-mail job with the tax authorities I atleast get a raise every year, even if it isn't a lot, meanwhile my mother, a teacher for 30 years, hasn't gotten a raise since 2011. Only way she makes extra money now is by doing more work, which means it isn't a raise anymore, and she is instead just working more.
In reality a lot of government jobs are worse paid and have worse conditions than comparable jobs in the private sector. At least where I live the public sector is riddled with bureaucracy and incompetent management, especially in the jobs where you are supposed to do something useful, like teaching, or nursing or elder care. And ever-present austerity means that everyone is overworked, unable to feel the satisfaction of doing a good job and under constant stress.
I still remember when my school district shelled out ~300k $ for some consultants to show up and tell us that the kids play space would be nicer if the paint wasn't peeling from the walls and if we could build another playhouse that would be fun
Same district that didn't have money to pay for painting the walls or building a new playhouse btw.
The school where my partner works has had roughly 30% of employees forced on long-term sick leave from work-related stress alone during the latest year.
This is caused in part by a budgetary death spiral in which fewer students leads to budget cuts that leads to worse service that leads to fewer students and in part by a management that is either incompetent or directly hostile and tyrannic.
The liberal inside me kind of expected someone in some official capacity to do something when a workplace destroys one employee after the other. But this has gone on for years.
All the socially useful jobs like teaching, nursing and home care are being demolished by austerity and have been since the days of noted warcriminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen. At my useless e-mail job with the tax authorities I atleast get a raise every year, even if it isn't a lot, meanwhile my mother, a teacher for 30 years, hasn't gotten a raise since 2011. Only way she makes extra money now is by doing more work, which means it isn't a raise anymore, and she is instead just working more.