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[noggythenog]

I personally feel that pay in the emergency services is just about right......slightly low but only because of recent erosion of pay, conditions and working practices.


Firefighters - you can live a decent life, have a half decent car and do something worthwhile......pay is ok but i think that the previous benefits kind of made up for that a little bit to make the whole package decent....because the benefits and perks have been chipped away at then it is no longer the case & i Reckon that the fire service has been losing quality guys to the likes of the oil industry......used to be run like the millitary and recruited lots from the millitary and as such i liken a good watch to the likes of a special forces platoon wherby you have lots of skilled guys with specialised expertise which can overcome different situations......instead of that type of recruitment then i would guess that you're far more likely to now have someone who went to college to study something tarty like "sports science" rather than someone who has real skills.......this will only get worse.......firefighters have been wrongly demonised by the Rich in order to take the flack away from themselves.....this is wrong......like VNA says the likes of Amazon are legally fleecing this country while we moan about firefighters going on strike being selfish. Ok i appreciate that there arent as many fires these days due to increased fire safety but the problem comes when there is a fire because the chances are it's gonna be a biggy and if you've spent the last ten years recruiting only those who will accept the crap conditions then dont be surprised when something goes pete tong that's what im saying......end of the day if im trapped in a fire i want the most switched on and job happy person coming to rescue me.




Paramedics - probably used to be a good job but again it is the conditions which have been chipped away so that they are permanently flat out and understaffed like the rest of the NHS.......paying them more wouldnt suddenly make them less stressed out but providing adequate levels of staff would improve their work....again all of the media portrayals of staff refusing to act because they're on their lunch break.....engineered by the head sheds to make us have a go at the staff when in reality it's gotta be in a bit of a shit state when things like that start happening and the shit has come from the top.


Police - seems to have resisted the most to at least keep hold of allot of the benefits that they have but by all means has turned into a glorified social working job really hasnt it....i wish they could just give folk a right shoeing but even that perk has gone now coz they get grassed up by their own probies :lol ....cant punch a smackheed coz thats against his rights and all that other good shit.....still seems a tidy job though and the pay is good but again all the paperwork and shit jobs and doing reports at home in your spare time or whatever...foc that.


So to summarise......all decently paid........if it was 20 years ago...........now a little bit shit because of the change in conditions......not necessarily the pay itself...all services are portrayed in a bad way by the media via the government via the rich......................who are a bunch o tossers.