I guess I feel like a long-term prisoner who suddenly sees the prospect of early parole, though still a long-way off.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4353444.stm
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)
When my children become professional athletes.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)
David Frost, director general of the BCC was furious at today's agreement: "This deal is unacceptable from the standpoint of British business.
"The government needed to grasp the nettle and increase the public sector retirement age for existing employees on a sliding scale. They have failed to do this" he added.
If we were paid the same wages as private sector employees, then David Frost might have a point here.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)
"At this rate it could take forty years for the public sector retirement age to rise.
"The Arctic ice cap is melting more rapidly than the government is reforming public sector pensions."
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)
gah. the public sector. it's enough to make me vote tory :)
i'm 30 and work as a hack. i have a decent enough final-salary pension, but i'm a pessimist and fully expect things to go spectacularly tits-up. i imagine i'll probably end up ploughing on until 70. or until i drop.
thing is: i enjoy my work. it gives me a useful outlet for my pedantry. when i'm an old git, i'll need that outlet even more.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)