A Couple Of Observations

More than once now I've seen people who've retired from one public job, like fireman or cop, enter into another public job, like teaching complain about their tax burden and how much they pay.

Paying taxes well in excess of The Lovely Harvey's entire income.

You may cry me a fucking river about paying those taxes because that means your income is fucking substantial.

And gained entire from the taxes paid by everyone.

A common theme is complaints about how misunderstood their job is by the public which is paying for it.

Maybe it's them whom doesn't understand.

Poor baby, your second (third?) career actually adds up to an actual 40 hours a week when you add up all "on the clock" with the "off the clock" and continuing education?

Poor baby, it doesn't actually pay the statewide average because you have less time in grade than the more senior teachers who're "skewing" the average.

We've noticed that "despite" your "working" 40 hours a week, you sure are home a lot more than we are.

We've noticed that "despite" your "working" 52 weeks a year, you sure take more and longer vacations than we do.

We've noticed how difficult it is to get a shitty teacher, fireman or cop terminated.

We've noticed that lots of these terminations are really forced resignations which allow the teacher. cop or fireman to retain all of their accrued benefits, and can result in them getting paid for a year or more despite being "fired".

We've noticed that these terminations don't harm your access to the taxpayer funded retirement packages.

We've noticed these benefit and retirement packages that allow more than full pay retirement at as little as 10 years on the job.

We've noticed that there's not a few people on their third such career.

We've noticed that these benefits are becoming the majority of the budgets, paying lavish amounts to people who are no longer working or even living in our communities.

We've noticed over and over a reluctance to do the job we want done and demands that the job be strictly limited to just what you want to do.

We've noticed a trend where you demand we answer to your mores and create ever more barriers to being accountable to the community which is paying your check.

We've noticed your unions fighting against us on so many issues.  This alone makes us despise you, even if you disagree with your union leadership.  They're democratically elected, so why don't you fix that?

We've noticed how you band together to defend the worst of you regardless of how bad.

In case you haven't noticed, college educated, salaried positions are 60+ hours a week with continuing education requirements paid out of pocket and taken on ones own time.  Health insurance and retirement is also out of pocket.  You can be, easily, terminated for virtually any or no reason and are forbidden to form unions because of the exempt status that having a salary rather than hourly usually carries.