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Totally incomparable. Almost all of those roles are on non-negotiable payscales set by the agencies, with very tight working hours. And as for infighting and j
by lr4444lr 5y ago
Totally incomparable. Almost all of those roles are on non-negotiable payscales set by the agencies, with very tight working hours.
And as for infighting and jealousy, it is very existent: not over money, but often promotions given out due to patronage, seniority ranking for choosing work duties, people abusing probationary procedures to retaliate against others... public service has plenty of misery for people on the wrong end of things, and it's a major factor for why unions are still strong there.
Public service salaries are public because it's public money. That's it. Don't glorify it.
- spenczar5 5y agoI don’t really understand your comment. The original concern was that if workers in a private company knew each other’s salaries, there would be particular problems. I am claiming that those haven’t appeared in my experience with public salaries. You have named many problems with working in public service. That doesn’t seem really relevant, though; I certainly am under no illusions that this is a perfect environment, just that salary transparency is not disastrous.
- lr4444lr 5y agoI'm saying salary transparency problems don't appear in the public sector because there is no social basis for them to appear. And as a corollary, that even when this aspect of possible inter-employee strife is removed, that people in those work environments still find ways of warring against one another. So why would you think adding an additional anxiety-inducing way for people to relatively rank one another in the private sector would lead to anything positive?