I haven't met anyone yet who thought £12500 per annum was fair for the work the Coastguard Watch Assitants do.
So how much should they be paid?
Sorry Chris but I find that a bit of a silly question.
£12,500 do you think that is a fair wage? Come on I think you are a bit more intelligent than that
To get where you are today you had probaly had to work very hard at what you do.
People on the doll get almost that much a year. So should all the Coastguard watch assistants sit on their backsides, quit their job and go on the doll?
How is anyone expected to live on that amount let alone try and buy a house. They don't get handouts or benefits. People on the doll do. What then is the incentive?
How much do you get paid? Would you be happy with £12500 per annum in the job you do?
999 Operators have to have a good level of intelligence be of a certain standard in terms of education, need to be of decent character, need to be on the ball, and co-ordinate rescue efforts and deal with people who are in the most diar of circumstances. Would you take on that responsibility for £12,500 ?
Do you think thats fair when someone without any GCSE's , larked about all their life, did poorly at school through nothing else than not being bothered can get a job paying more in McDonalds flipping Burgers?
If you say yes then you tell me why a school leaver who buggered about at school cant get the job you do then. I was useless at school, I paid for it in later life. I realised you have to work hard to get anywhere in life and so did that to compensate for my woefully bad education results.
Do you think these people should leave the job and go and work for McDonalds flipping burgers because they will get a better wage. What do you suggest Chris? What do I think they should get paid? a fair wage which allows them to keep their head above water the same way you expect your job to pay a fair wage to give you the small luxuries in life you feel you deserve such as hopefully owning your own property, having enough to provide for your family for doing an honest days work
You do, you work hard so why shouldnt you be able to keep your head above water.
Im sorry if I took the sentiment of your reply the wrong way, but it just annoys me that anyone would feel that a job involving that ammount of responsibility and close attention to detail warrants that wage.
They may as well go work as a sales assistant at a clothing store
Im not being snobbish, Ive got no problem with sales assistants, but if you think i am snobbish why is it then that a solicitor should be paid more than a sales assistant.
Exactly i rest my case
