“It’s a lesson to those of us who should have probably worked harder at school,” she said.
Does she include herself in that ‘us’?
Whilst it’s a simplistic comment, there is something to be said about not sitting around waiting for people to pay you more.
I’ve achieved a relatively good salary over the years, but it came from moving jobs and constantly looking for new opportunities.
Over the last 15 years I’ve moved 8 times. I stopped a little when the kids were very young, but now I’m off again and starting new job on Tuesday. That will be another 20% increase in salary.
Ultimately, if you have useful skills and experience, you can be financially rewarded. But it doesn’t happen automatically. You need to push for it. It’s a pain in the ass, but in the same way you have to shop round for the best mobile phone deal or insurance, you have to play the same game with your employment.
Being loyal to your employer is the biggest financial mistake you can make in this life.
If you find yourself as an adult with zero useful skills or transferable experience… Well, it might be worth looking in the mirror a bit and thinking what you might need to do differently.
Very few people are legitimately talentless. I also don’t even think your academic performance at school is that important. One of my best friends did terribly at school but is a pretty high earner due to his subsequent work ethic and natural ability.
That doesn’t mean that people don’t sometimes get stuck or due to situations beyond their control can’t easily progress. But I have some friends that often complain about their salary, whilst seemingly doing nothing to address the situation despite having the power to.
Director of coms as well. Clearly employ the best and brightest for the top brass.
Honestly network rail have done nothing but put their foot in it so far regarding the dispute with the RMT. It’s been infuriating but hilarious to watch.
To some extent, however education does not stop when school ends and there comes a point where workplace experience becomes more important. If it has been 20 years since you left school, what you have done since should be a more important determiner of salary.
I worked very hard in school. I got into a good university. The people who are doing the best that I know are ones who work for their parents companies / farms, or who inherited money. This kind of thinking can fuck off.
And to everyone saying you dont deserve a pay rise for hard work go fuck yourselves. I shall not work my arse off for a company ever the fuck again. I will do the bare fucking min coz an injury or hernia ent worth the hassle. Not that my area is affordable to rent in. A 1 bet flat is now a grand a month rent and avg monthly pay is 1500-2k so its starve or be a smelly cunt coz you ent got tepid dribbles from a shower due to shit infrastructure low water pressure and extortionate heating and electric prices.
Fuck her and fuck this country
Just looked her up on LinkedIn as I was curious about why she might have such a high opinion of herself.
She has: An undergrad degree from Bristol in politics and a career in PR working for a few places
Hardly the best and brightest
A society needs people at all levels to operate. You can’t say people in what you see as low level jobs don’t deserve rises. Everyone needs rises while inflation exists.
Where in a society made of high achievers are you going to get your bin men? shop workers? labourers? cleaners? Someone has to actually do the physical work that keeps everything actually operating. It’s odd really that there is snobbery around people who do jobs deemed as low level because they really are the glue that holds everything together.
Do they know they are talking to qualified engineers of all disciplines, urban planners, and tradespeople?
They must clearly think their workforce is unskilled
Did Daddy get her the job? I bet she’s never worked an actual job in her life.
My predicted starting salary after my PhD in a STEM subject is under 40k. Reckon I didn’t work hard at school then.
**…Its the Truth**
I don’t even know why this is news story! … DUUUUUHH! … we live in a highly capitalist and corrupt – *semi*-“state” (I do wonder looking back at this post this will change) I didn’t even understand why people were getting annoyed about people buying and selling toilet paper during the pandemic –
if you change the model, then a different affect will happen, until then but –
Capitalism = Get as much gains as possible! Fuck over everyone but your family, unless they fuck over you! Rule number one – don’t get caught!
I know this post isn’t the one you wanted to hear but go back to my title..**..**
I wish I had worked harder in school. I wouldn’t have ended up as a doctor. Her logic is infallible
…wait
I work hard in a school and looks like I will get 2% pay rise.
Maybe, but that’s the past and in the present they should work hard at collectively negotiating pay rises, not accept whatever is given to them just because they possibly performed worse than their bosses by some metric of academic assessment.
The irony of this considering how nepotistic the railway industry it.
It is amusing to me that some of the folk in the top jobs at NR, who wouldn’t even know what a wet bed is, let alone what to do about it, make all these statements trying to safeguard their own cushy salaries, and wouldn’t last a week in a safety-critical role. You know, where people can die pretty fast if you don’t do your job properly.
The amount of competencies you have to hold for some maintenance and ops jobs is exhaustive, and exhausting.
I’m not going to argue it’s harder than front-line NHS or first responders – everyone deserves above the line pay increases and have been shafted for years with slaps on the back and empty blandishments.
Who stole my joke?, If someone asks me how long have I been doing this (my job) I normally say long enough to know I should have done better at school.
The RMT are wrong to be talking about striking (the railway has been haemorrhaging revenue during COVID and can’t carry on with the current workforce levels), but this woman is a Grade A berk.
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“It’s a lesson to those of us who should have probably worked harder at school,” she said.
Does she include herself in that ‘us’?
Whilst it’s a simplistic comment, there is something to be said about not sitting around waiting for people to pay you more.
I’ve achieved a relatively good salary over the years, but it came from moving jobs and constantly looking for new opportunities.
Over the last 15 years I’ve moved 8 times. I stopped a little when the kids were very young, but now I’m off again and starting new job on Tuesday. That will be another 20% increase in salary.
Ultimately, if you have useful skills and experience, you can be financially rewarded. But it doesn’t happen automatically. You need to push for it. It’s a pain in the ass, but in the same way you have to shop round for the best mobile phone deal or insurance, you have to play the same game with your employment.
Being loyal to your employer is the biggest financial mistake you can make in this life.
If you find yourself as an adult with zero useful skills or transferable experience… Well, it might be worth looking in the mirror a bit and thinking what you might need to do differently.
Very few people are legitimately talentless. I also don’t even think your academic performance at school is that important. One of my best friends did terribly at school but is a pretty high earner due to his subsequent work ethic and natural ability.
That doesn’t mean that people don’t sometimes get stuck or due to situations beyond their control can’t easily progress. But I have some friends that often complain about their salary, whilst seemingly doing nothing to address the situation despite having the power to.
Director of coms as well. Clearly employ the best and brightest for the top brass.
Honestly network rail have done nothing but put their foot in it so far regarding the dispute with the RMT. It’s been infuriating but hilarious to watch.
To some extent, however education does not stop when school ends and there comes a point where workplace experience becomes more important. If it has been 20 years since you left school, what you have done since should be a more important determiner of salary.
I worked very hard in school. I got into a good university. The people who are doing the best that I know are ones who work for their parents companies / farms, or who inherited money. This kind of thinking can fuck off.
And to everyone saying you dont deserve a pay rise for hard work go fuck yourselves. I shall not work my arse off for a company ever the fuck again. I will do the bare fucking min coz an injury or hernia ent worth the hassle. Not that my area is affordable to rent in. A 1 bet flat is now a grand a month rent and avg monthly pay is 1500-2k so its starve or be a smelly cunt coz you ent got tepid dribbles from a shower due to shit infrastructure low water pressure and extortionate heating and electric prices.
Fuck her and fuck this country
Just looked her up on LinkedIn as I was curious about why she might have such a high opinion of herself.
She has: An undergrad degree from Bristol in politics and a career in PR working for a few places
Hardly the best and brightest
A society needs people at all levels to operate. You can’t say people in what you see as low level jobs don’t deserve rises. Everyone needs rises while inflation exists.
Where in a society made of high achievers are you going to get your bin men? shop workers? labourers? cleaners? Someone has to actually do the physical work that keeps everything actually operating. It’s odd really that there is snobbery around people who do jobs deemed as low level because they really are the glue that holds everything together.
Do they know they are talking to qualified engineers of all disciplines, urban planners, and tradespeople?
They must clearly think their workforce is unskilled
Did Daddy get her the job? I bet she’s never worked an actual job in her life.
My predicted starting salary after my PhD in a STEM subject is under 40k. Reckon I didn’t work hard at school then.
**…Its the Truth**
I don’t even know why this is news story! … DUUUUUHH! … we live in a highly capitalist and corrupt – *semi*-“state” (I do wonder looking back at this post this will change) I didn’t even understand why people were getting annoyed about people buying and selling toilet paper during the pandemic –
if you change the model, then a different affect will happen, until then but –
Capitalism = Get as much gains as possible! Fuck over everyone but your family, unless they fuck over you! Rule number one – don’t get caught!
I know this post isn’t the one you wanted to hear but go back to my title..**..**
I wish I had worked harder in school. I wouldn’t have ended up as a doctor. Her logic is infallible
…wait
I work hard in a school and looks like I will get 2% pay rise.
Maybe, but that’s the past and in the present they should work hard at collectively negotiating pay rises, not accept whatever is given to them just because they possibly performed worse than their bosses by some metric of academic assessment.
The irony of this considering how nepotistic the railway industry it.
It is amusing to me that some of the folk in the top jobs at NR, who wouldn’t even know what a wet bed is, let alone what to do about it, make all these statements trying to safeguard their own cushy salaries, and wouldn’t last a week in a safety-critical role. You know, where people can die pretty fast if you don’t do your job properly.
The amount of competencies you have to hold for some maintenance and ops jobs is exhaustive, and exhausting.
I’m not going to argue it’s harder than front-line NHS or first responders – everyone deserves above the line pay increases and have been shafted for years with slaps on the back and empty blandishments.
Who stole my joke?, If someone asks me how long have I been doing this (my job) I normally say long enough to know I should have done better at school.
The RMT are wrong to be talking about striking (the railway has been haemorrhaging revenue during COVID and can’t carry on with the current workforce levels), but this woman is a Grade A berk.