Public Sector Worker Mugs

'How late do you expect to be working?'

Meaningful Negotiations?

'We want communities to 'own' the big societies...we want you to feel it belongs to you...'

'I'm afraid at times like this with overstretched budgets we all have to make sacrifices.'

'At least we get decent pensions.'

'I'm afraid it's not gold-plated after all.'

TUC Conference: 'I've invited in someone from the private sector to help drive up our performance in fighting the private sector.'

Job Centre: 'Closed Due to Staff Shortage.'

Public Procurement Portal

The cutbacks were beginning to bite at the local council...

"Oh, stop complaining! Our partner agencies conducted a full tenant consultation exercise!"

'Dalrymple came to us from the public sector.'

'But I'm a volunteer.'

'The government is DETERMINED to get rid of the 'target culture'...in fact we've committed to reducing targets by 68^ across 75% of the 76 most target driven departments within 96 days!'

"The endless string of budget cuts are making things impossible. It's the worst part of this job. Having to spread so much time with people at the very end of their tether...people with no hope, no optimism for the future...people in a state of despair! A

NHS bureaucracy: 'Any chance you could get a move on.'

Funding Cuts for the Arts

Public Library: Closed Due To Difficult Decisions

NHS Reforms: See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil.

'And this is where we attempt to forecast the TRUE size of the spending cuts.'

Why Cows Leave Home

"You may have been the victim of a mis-sold PFI contract."

Quality Control

Bureaucrat's Brain

Dem's on the Run in Wisconsin & Indiana!

Pensions Protests: Pensioner's Special at Joe's Cafe

"So what makes you think he's a Public Sector Fat Cat."

'Pensions like ours are unsustainable for everyone else.'

"Realigned public sector team leader seeks matched funding."

"I'm leaving public life to make millions as a lobbyist."

'Now obviously we won't be paying you but would you accept a number of meaningless protestations of gratitude and a variety of shallow platitudes suggesting our appreciation instead.'

'I am resigning from the public sector so I can get nothing done in the private sector.'

DMV Hours.

"Public sector workers need to 'get real'...There is no way the government can carry on paying them the pensions they want..."

Union Leaders and Fatcats