Just noticed that one of my "favourite" clients (an individual) just got a new job.I do like him (sort of) as a person, but he is your typical public sector douchebag - very ineffective, with a trail of disasters behind him.Anyway, I thought I'd do a little googling to see what his new job pays. It's quite high up in the public sector. Do you know, I almost fell off my chair when I saw how much it pays!! Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike this guy or anything, but similarly he's no superstar.... and he's now in a position funded out of the public purse earning upward of a quarter of a mil per year PLUS the pension and other stuff that goes with it!! Absolutely unbelievable. Why, oh why, are these public sector folk paid so much for doing so little.Anyway, that's that off my chest. I would say it's none of my business actually, although as a taxpayer I now feel even just a tiny little bit more ripped off than I did previously. Ho hum.

Sounds 'bout right old son! God bless public sector REMFs.

Very ineffective with a trail of disasters behind him? That footballer and sardines comes to mind...sounds like an ideal client, generating plenty of MC work to clean up his mess.

BEP - he is what a typical MC would call "a cash cow"... they guy probably knows exactly how ineffective he is and hence makes sure he has a nice yearly MC budget available so that you can do his work for him.Come on lets face it - is he the first person that Forum members have seen that are like that!?!

I find it more ethical (ora rather, less unethical) to work for a Lockheed Martin, Philip Morris or Coca Cola (if you take away the "pollute water reservoirs and spill oil in the Gulf of Mexico" bits) than within the public sector. They way they waste the money they extortionate from people is unbelievable.I reckon you could get away with lowering all big public sector salaries by cutting by 80% anything above 100k (i.e. 200k becomes 120k).Should they feel underpaid, I'm sure they can get their old salary, work-life balance and pressure to deliver in the private sector, right?Clowns.