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I just bought a new car, or at least new to me. Been taking a few longer trips lately and found my little fiat was leaving me cramped after more than an hours solid driving so I traded for a Primera 2.0 SRi. It's ok but now I back in that 'looks ok but lets see if anything falls off it in the next 3 months' limbo that you're always in when you buy a used car. Well it has to go to Wales next month so it had better be reliable.
What else? Got a training session at an indoor rockclimbing place tomorrow night, have to do two of those before I'm allowed on the walls by myself, then down to London on Friday and on to Bournemouth (of all places) for a stag do at the weekend. My friends appear to be getting married at a rate of one per year, wonder whose turn it is next year... we'll I'm single so it won't be me ;)
Work going as normal except I have no idea what my salary is. Working for the NHS we have this wonderfull scheme which is supposed to ensure equality of pay across the whole country (and due to the way the new pay structures have been formed also a handy cost cutting excercise, or at least cost capping excercise) we have to write our job description and have it matched against a bunch of national profiles.
That's right, we write our own descriptions. Most places tend to tell you how much you'll earn and what you're expected to do for your money, we have to tell them what we are already doing then they decide what to pay us afterwards. Hmm....well that about sums it up for the NHS. Especially since they have a detailed set of scoring criteria which decides your pay grade and the simple rephrasing of the a sentance can mean the difference between two salary levels. Bearing in mind all staff have to do this and not everyone in the NHS is a personnel officer or indeed has any kind of administrative experience at all.
Not to mention that the so called 'job matching' panel is made up of volunteers (not trained personnel officers) from within the local organisation (so much for ensuring national consistency) and one of ours is a gardener. So a gardener is going to partly judge how much I, working in IT, should be earning based on a job description which I've had to write myself with no guidance. This pretty much sums up the management of the NHS.
Oh well, I'm ust feeling annoyed about it today, I'll find something less gloomy to talk about next entry.
What else? Got a training session at an indoor rockclimbing place tomorrow night, have to do two of those before I'm allowed on the walls by myself, then down to London on Friday and on to Bournemouth (of all places) for a stag do at the weekend. My friends appear to be getting married at a rate of one per year, wonder whose turn it is next year... we'll I'm single so it won't be me ;)
Work going as normal except I have no idea what my salary is. Working for the NHS we have this wonderfull scheme which is supposed to ensure equality of pay across the whole country (and due to the way the new pay structures have been formed also a handy cost cutting excercise, or at least cost capping excercise) we have to write our job description and have it matched against a bunch of national profiles.
That's right, we write our own descriptions. Most places tend to tell you how much you'll earn and what you're expected to do for your money, we have to tell them what we are already doing then they decide what to pay us afterwards. Hmm....well that about sums it up for the NHS. Especially since they have a detailed set of scoring criteria which decides your pay grade and the simple rephrasing of the a sentance can mean the difference between two salary levels. Bearing in mind all staff have to do this and not everyone in the NHS is a personnel officer or indeed has any kind of administrative experience at all.
Not to mention that the so called 'job matching' panel is made up of volunteers (not trained personnel officers) from within the local organisation (so much for ensuring national consistency) and one of ours is a gardener. So a gardener is going to partly judge how much I, working in IT, should be earning based on a job description which I've had to write myself with no guidance. This pretty much sums up the management of the NHS.
Oh well, I'm ust feeling annoyed about it today, I'll find something less gloomy to talk about next entry.