I’m struggling to find any sympathy for state sector employees who have just been shafted by the Government they voted for:
Tens of thousands of public sector workers first found out about their pay being frozen in the media, rather than from their own organisations.
Public sector employees told Stuff they felt “blindsided” when first hearing about the three-year pay freeze from social media and online news stories on Wednesday morning, with “sheepish” internal communications not coming until much later – if at all.
One said the lack of prior communication underlined how “contemptuous and hurtful” the move felt.
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Cry me a river of tears. These state sector employees sat on the couch on full pay when other Kiwis were watching their businesses fold because of Jacinda Ardern’s lockdowns. Then, almost to a person, they exclaimed that we needed longer lockdowns as they quivered in fear at home on full pay.
Then they almost entirely voted for the Government that has now just shafted them.
Now the government has a massive problem, because they told a great many of these same people, repeatedly, that they were “essential workers” and “heroes”. Now they’ve heard they have to suffer because the government has run out of cash to pay these “essential workers” and “heroes”.
Of course every worker is an essential worker, but the government threw tens of thousands of people’s jobs and companies on the proverbial scrap heap to ‘save us’ from the Chinese Lung Rot.
It is now the state sector employees’ turn to suffer, except it isn’t really suffering; they still have their well paid jobs. They just don’t get to pad it out even further for three years.
Of course if they don’t like it, they can always go play in the private sector….yeah…didn’t think so.
So they need to suck it up. The only place they will find sympathy is in the dictionary…between shit and syphilis.
The only upside to all of this is that the trickle of leaks will become a tsunami.
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