“If people who are doing ineffective jobs would quit - this includes teachers, civil servants, anyone - instead of sticking around for a pension, they’d be happier and the bloated system would collapse.”
Human greed, accompanied by a total lack of principles, is nothing new. I know a kindergarten teacher (in her mid-40s) who takes down $82K annually. She works 180 days per year, and due to her seniority has employment for life.
She’s laughing all the way to the bank.
“Human greed, accompanied by a total lack of principles, is nothing new. I know a kindergarten teacher (in her mid-40s) who takes down $82K annually. She works 180 days per year, and due to her seniority has employment for life.”
My son had numerous teachers in CA that obviously hated their jobs, but felt trapped in them because they wanted the money and the pension. They could never get the same money doing real work. (No offense meant to conservative teachers, but most teachers I’ve seen just tote the party line and the lower standards the administrators foist on them. I have a teaching credential, so have been in the midst of the idiocy.)
In Texas, it was better. There is no pension system and salaries match the hours put in. I met several ex-teachers who did something they enjoyed more after quitting.
And the system gets better teachers that way.
Yes, greed has been around as long as Satan. But our government promotes it.