[quote name='defpally']Only if you fall for the right wing talking point that public sector employees should only be paid the bare minimum necessary to put a warm body in the job. That way anyone who is somewhat productive is forced to move to the private sector to earn enough to raise a family and eat. At that point you end up bitching at the driver's license office (worse than people do now) about how retarded and slow the people are there. The simple question is, do you like your garbage pick up to be timely, your trips to the DMV to not be ordeals and the mail you send to the post office to actually have a better than average chance of reaching it's destination? In that case your taxes have to pay more than bottom of the bucket wages to attract employees that actually give a shit.
You cannot have it both ways. You either have to pay enough taxes that the government can hire qualified employees or you can have your low taxes and get what you pay for from your government services. I've yet to meet someone that would volunteer to spend more time at the DMV.[/QUOTE]
Funny you say this, since for a long time I was receiving other peoples' mail from not only one or two streets over, but also as far away as a whole neighborhood/section of the city. So to say that paying better wages makes for people who give a shit or pay attention to how they're doing their job is a crock to me.
Then there was the one woman who worked at the one post office at the mall here. She would constantly bitch about having to work hours she wasn't supposed to and just bitch in general about the place. She has since disappeared, so I'm assuming she was either re-assigned somewhere else or she was one of the small percentage of people that somehow get themselves fired from public sector jobs.
But the way I see it a job is a job. If you want to make money, you either do your job without bitching about how long/hard the hours are or you find a different job. God knows there will be 10 or more people right behind you willing to do that job without complaining about the hours or how you're owed more pay for doing it.
[quote name='eastx']This is very true. As for IATCG's assessment of education itself and the skills needed to teach... In my experience, dumb people usually hate education and hold educators in disdain.[/QUOTE]
:lol:So because someone is critical of some teachers they're automatically stupid to you?
I guess you must BE a teacher to take my comments so personally, huh?
I commend the teachers who take the time to actually interact with their students and make sure they learn what they're trying to teach them and then spend the extra time with students who may appear to be falling behind. Those teachers deserve every benefit in the world. But the ones like I mentioned above that only give out assignments from the teachers' edition textbooks are doing the bare minimum to be seen as teachers imo.
Mind you, most of what is taught in school from grades 1 through 12 will never really be needed in the real world, so most education is really for naught. An employer has never asked me to answer an algebra question on an application or to solve an equation and show my work for it.