YOU may be right in your editorial that most commercial workers are judged on their performance (Evesham Journal, October 3).
Our recent experience with parts of the powerful and poorly regulated financial sector show how our current leaders struggle with monitoring their performance.
No doubt that’s why they want to tackle, without listening to the workers concerned, what they consider to be an easy target.
I wonder how you would best judge the performance of someone performing all these roles with new “material” every year: social worker, administrator, coat finder, referee, National Curriculum interpreter, artistic director, form filler, translator, pencil sharpener, IT guru, accountant, musician, nose wiper, diplomat, surrogate parent, medic, walking encyclopaedia, and scapegoat? That’s just a teacher! Simples.
So listen to and value them because they uniquely perform all these roles, for they are clearly very unhappy.
MICHAEL T PARKER Sedgeberrow
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