How best to react to a slash in your wages..

HangTime said:
If leaving for another job were to cost me £60k over 4 years, then it wouldn't meet my criteria of a "a better job" :)

What I'm getting at is, if he stays with his current job, paying £x, over 4 years he will earn £4x.
Whereas changing to the uni job would earn him £4(x+10)^payrise_factor. So in the first year he would earn £10k more than his current job, in the 2nd year even more than £10k difference (assuming payrise) and so forth.
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That's true, I know it's a lot of money but neither me nor my fiancee value money over happiness. I've had some awful jobs and I know others who still have them, they rarely shut up about them when we're out drinking where as I'm perfectly happy here. I would move, but only for the right job. I don't really have a boss here as such and in all honesty I get far more work done because of it.

As I said I would move, but I'd be hell of a picky about it ;)
 
Well in the end it's a pay freeze for 4 years, by then the post will have caught up with my current wage, but in effect it's a £2000 pay cut over that time.

Afterwards I'll never recieve any pay increase other than a cost of living one (2% or so). Boss is furious as he knows it's more or less forcing me to leave. He's asked me to appeal in october when the appeal process opens.

What annoys him most is that only 2 years ago he had the council decide what wage my post should have, now they've change their minds after him finally getting someone in who can do everything the staff need and more.

I'm none too stressed, got him to agree to spending extra money on training :D
 
merlin said:
Granted that's not very hygienic, but I'd prefer it over a turd.
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Hahahaha, first time I've really laughed out loud for a while, it threw me off the seriousness of the rest of the thread, comedy gold
 
Kami said:
Well in the end it's a pay freeze for 4 years, by then the post will have caught up with my current wage, but in effect it's a £2000 pay cut over that time.

Afterwards I'll never recieve any pay increase other than a cost of living one (2% or so). Boss is furious as he knows it's more or less forcing me to leave. He's asked me to appeal in october when the appeal process opens.

What annoys him most is that only 2 years ago he had the council decide what wage my post should have, now they've change their minds after him finally getting someone in who can do everything the staff need and more.

I'm none too stressed, got him to agree to spending extra money on training :D
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Old thread i know but i work in local government just like Kami and have today found out that i'm now valued less than i was yesterday, a touch over £2000 per year less. Job evaluation in local government is a farce when you consider that my boss has been cut to the same grade as myself whilst staff for whom i have responsibility in terms of delivering supervision, training and designing procedures for have been upgraded to be the same as me and my boss! I'm all for equal pay but this takes the **** tbh.

I'm annoyed but i've spent most of the day laughing at the madness of it all. I can and will appeal, should find out the outcome of that in another 3 years maybe!
 
Rotty said:
and in turn we pay councils tto much for what they do


having said that, maybe if they incresed efficiency and reduced numbers by getting rid of the the idle and useless then maybe they wouldn't have to cut salaries of the decent workers thy have
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IMO its all a finely balanced circle,
if the idle people are out of work, where do they go?
It's just the british way of doing things at the end of the day.
 
Tell him your family has died in a car crash earlier and this is the worst day of your life and you're thinking about suicide. See if he tells you :p
 
Wow lucky I spotted this, well since this thread started I've moved out of the council, been promoted and absolutely love my new job. Wierd how things work out but the advice I'd give to anyone in my position - getting a pay cut like that is simply to move. Councils will end up with rubbish staff on peanuts.

Plenty of jobs out there if you look :)
 
Don't react at all. Be enigmatic. Don't paint yourself into a corner. Thank them for the update. No more. March April is the best time of the year to look for a new job. Get one. Tell them you are leaving. See if they counter-offer. Be prepared to go if necessary.
 
EffBee said:
Don't react at all. Be enigmatic. Don't paint yourself into a corner. Thank them for the update. No more. March April is the best time of the year to look for a new job. Get one. Tell them you are leaving. See if they counter-offer. Be prepared to go if necessary.
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only a year late
 
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