The weird thing about teaching is you can start school as a child, go onto secondary school and then become a teacher after going to univercity school, all book learning and no real job in between, no experience of working on the shop floor in industry, in an office,restraunt and numerous other jobs etc etc.
Just a classroom for life, then theres the problem with discipline, the children are told what to wear as a uniform, the teachers dont seem to have any corporate uniform, which most large companies have, you dont see staff at tesco in badly fitting suits or cheap dresses, our local so called academy, the children are told not to smoke yet every break a group of the most unfitest ,scruffily dressed teachers turn up round the back in the park smoking their heads off, and then throwing the fag ends in the hedge.
A lot of the wildlife now has a serious cancer threat to their health.
But enjoy your strike, strike for weeks and youll probably not be noticed youre off work,(probabllier quieter roads) unlike the emergency services who strike for 4 hours and get live reports throught their strike on the media, and will probably get what they want.
wrightyson - Member
I'm in construction! I manage anything from big factory builds up to £10 million to sitting on a mini digger. That's how we work as a very small company. Just two of us. Before the last 18 months we hadn't done any industrial work for three years, the whole business was very close and the only thing that saved us was the fact we had such small outgoings wages/office wise.
I've no pension as I've never had the spare cash to pay into one. As for hr and stuff like that
So you work in Construction. What are the pay and conditions like?
The weird thing about teaching is you can start school as a child, go onto secondary school and then become a teacher after going to univercity school, all book learning and no real job in between, no experience of working on the shop floor in industry, in an office,restraunt and numerous other jobs etc etc.Just a classroom for life, then theres the problem with discipline, the children are told what to wear as a uniform, the teachers dont seem to have any corporate uniform, which most large companies have, you dont see staff at tesco in badly fitting suits or cheap dresses, our local so called academy, the children are told not to smoke yet every break a group of the most unfitest ,scruffily dressed teachers turn up round the back in the park smoking their heads off, and then throwing the fag ends in the hedge.
A lot of the wildlife now has a serious cancer threat to their health.
Hmm.
A lot of staff (including myself) have done other jobs. All will have done part-time jobs at some point.
Our staff look smart and none smoke on-site. We certainly wouldn't get away with what you describe. There is no staff uniform, just guidance as in most office jobs? I think many staff would like a 'uniform' - it might make life easier. We were recently given fleeces with the school name on and they have proved very popular!
Project that post is priceless, great work on commenting on something you clearly have no clue about. I admire people like you in so many ways.
There is no need for a teacher to have spent time working in "other" jobs. "Real-life" experience can have advantages, yes, but it can also have disadvantages.
ClinkWe were recently given fleeces with the school name on and they have proved very popular!
Don't say things like that! Someone will be along in a minute saying they have to buy there own uniform. 🙄
I agree that teaching seems to be a very stressful and demanding job and appropriate terms and conditions are worth fighting for. The only thing I take exception to is the comments I hear from teachers that parents treat school as glorified childcare. I can only imagine that the teachers who think that don't realise how disruptive it can be to working parents to take an extra day off work at short notice, for reasons other than illness. Some of those parents may be in jobs that are also vital (eg, NHS workers) causing a knock-on effect. Some parents may even have to taken unpaid leave.
anagallis_arvensis - Member
Project that post is priceless, great work on commenting on something you clearly have no clue about. I admire people like you in so many ways.
most of us have the same opinion on your comments..........., obviously you dont believe in people having an opinion different to yours, i so pity the children you may interact with.
There are five of us in our office. Between us we've done retail work, IT support, call centre work, worked for the local newspaper, programming, printing press, and one of us has 20+ years in the RAF regiment including several overseas tours. We're all striking next week.
We're a bunch of scruffy buggers, because it's expected as we work in a sixth form college, but all the staff in the three secondary schools I visited recently were very professionally dressed and most places specify business attire nowadays.
The weird thing about having been to school as a child and gone onto secondary school, is that people think it makes them an expert on educational policy.
most of us have the same opinion on your comments..........., obviously you dont believe in people having an opinion different to yours, i so pity the children you may interact with.
those are your opinions! Pricless, I thought you were doing some sort of Jim Davidson parody or something. Keep up the good work!
