C'mon! I know you're out there p*ssed off public sector employees....

[Twinklemegan]

There must be other Mnetters who work in the public sector and have gone through/are going through job evaluation. Surely? (Hope you don't take offence those of you who kindly responded to my other thread, but I HAVE to have a rant with other similarly p*ssed off people).

[Katymac]

I was so pissed off I left - does that count?

[Twinklemegan]

I reckon so. What happened if you don't mind me asking?

[movingmadness]

Here in the NHS we're being evaluated as well. Some stupid manager who hasn't a clue of the real world ended up getting some members of staff a £5k pay drop, less than other areas of the country for exactly the same job. I did ok, but I do feel for you all....... Our staff did the first evals which management disagreed with and they went to numerous review panels until management finally got what THEY wanted !!

[Katymac]

I have ME (CFS) & also IBS and a prolapse

I was reg off sick(unsurprisingly)

Each time I was called in and asked what would make me off sick less (I suggested a new body?)

I was off for about 3 weeks and when I came back none of my work had been done - but none of it had been missed either so basicallly I was doing an unnecessary job

At each appraisel I suggested I could do more while I was there (even if it were intermittantly) and they said no

Then I got a pension forecast which meant if I work for the next 35 yrs I'd get about £220 pcm pension - I left

As I was going I was called in to the directors office and I had to go through with him my plans for the redundancy money(which is really off imo)

He said "but this is project Mgmt"

I said yes

He said "that's what this dept does"
Hmmm
"why aren't you doing this rather than filing/answering the phone"

"umm because apparently my disablities affect my brain & stop me doing anything substantial"

& THE POLICY HAS CHANGED (thank goodness for the others in my position)

[Twinklemegan]

Yep - I've been handed a big fat £4.5k pay cut (works out at around 20%). I don't think I've ever been so insulted in my life. The worst thing is, the work I do IS in the public sector - I have very few other options. I can hopefully recover some of the pay, maybe most, when my job is reprofiled following our restructuring, but that will still mean that I'm doing what used to be my manager's work, as well as my own, for much less pay than she was on.

[Twinklemegan]

Oh Katymac - for you. I've come up against a similar problem with my job in a way. The work's there, there's too much of it, but my manager likes being a martyr/control freak and has prevented me from taking on any responsibility that's not strictly in my job description.

[Katymac]

It's funny - but since I left my health has been fab

Sorry you are having problems

(but you still can't do any archiology on my project I can't afford the bill)

In Norfolk we only had the Iceni & you have lots of info on that!!

[Twinklemegan]

lol Katymac (I know nothing about the Iceni btw - not my area)

[Twinklemegan]

The level of incompetence can be pretty scary can't it?

[Marina]

OMG Twinklemegan, I am just suddenly wondering if we work for the same local authority, given your profession
Do you have a bearded (male!) colleague with the initials JB by any chance?
I have just put a team member ("voluntarily" but there was an undertone of menace in the whole process) through stage two benchmarking.
Have you been told by two travelling muppets with a laptop, I wonder, that this is "not about saving money"

[Marina]

NurseyJo, I don't think my rather isolated department has the faintest idea what's about to hit it. We have had a restructure in HR recently which has coincidentally seen the departure/removal of all the informed and on-side HR colleagues (all 2 of them)
I had to drop everything for ten days just before Christmas to assist a team member with documenting her post for benchmarking.
The form was 22 pages long and looked as though it had been written by a hamster
We used the .pdf and sent it back with all the literals and typos corrected, with a note saying we were concerned about their attention to detail we were so pissed off.
Have not heard anything yet

[Twinklemegan]

I don't think so Marina , but interesting that you mention my profession. I presume this kind of thing has happened to one of my kind elsewhere then? What a surprise - as if the pay wasn't bad enough already!

[Marina]

Do you know anyone in MOLAS then?

[lisad123]

fighting with my manager too
Took forever to get special laptop and programmes for my dsylexicia (sp?) but now have said they cant afford to train me on it!!! Whats the point of having equipment if you cant use it properly.
We also have to submit proof we deserve to go up a level, with loads of evidence, so much hard work not worth it!! GRRR

Lisa

[Twinklemegan]

I'm in a different part of the country so maybe not. Although I studied in London so some of my former uni colleagues may be working there.

[Twinklemegan]

Lisa - it's so worth it. Don't give up! I think the reason they are able to get away with what they do is because too many of us roll over and take it.

[unknownrebelbang]

We've just gone through JE, and the appeals are ongoing now.

I'm one of six different roles in our department, and I'm the only one that did "well" out of it(but they're shafting me in other ways)and one colleague is happy with her result (although she has been shafted too). Three out of the other five jobtypes are appealing - including our manager (who's been shafted recently and then suffered in the JE).