All in this together!
1. I work in a school.
2. (Although there are minor fluctuations) The organisation's income from government is constant, reliable, secure, unchanging.
3. This should make financial planning a piece of piss.

4.(3 years ago) Head & Governors create four positions at new senior management level.
5. (2 years and ten months ago) After years of being in the black the Head starts telling us all about how we are suddenly ~£200,000 over budget p.a. and can't afford to pay the people actually teaching children.
6. (2 years ago) Head brings in a "temporary restructuring consultant" on ~£500 per day to deal with this crisis.

7. (This Monday) The now rather permanent restructuring consultant still on ~£500 per day tells us that around half the staff are to have their posts downgraded and that around 20 of them are in positions that are unnecessary.
8. (This Tuesday) Lots of very upset, angry and frightened people at work facing pay cuts and an unlucky few the very real prospect of becoming unemployed.
8. (This Wednesday) The head then complains about "scaremongering" amongst staff.

I dread to think what they are going to do when the Dave and his boys actually start cutting education spending.
(champagnerocker, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 0:13, 5 replies)

didn't they ring-fence education?
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 0:53, closed)

huh huhuh...
you said "ring"...
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 7:31, closed)

humm
working in education i've seen one extreme or the other...mo money or excess of it ><
(tb2571989 dies at precisely, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 9:31, closed)

You have got it documented a little better I hope?
Names, dates, places? Got any record of these decisions going back 3 years? It sounds to me like somebody's paying out secret commissions, i.e corruption.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 11:00, closed)

I think you should just kill them all.

(zebby wasting irony here on, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 13:35, closed)