Why are civil servants used to special treatment? If it’s so great, why didn’t you apparently become a civil servant?
Quasi job security and disability benefits. The income automatically increases with the number of years of service and with family additions. Civil servants can only laugh about the pension debate; in retirement, they receive a pension at a significantly higher level than the state pension, and 13 times a year. That’s why tenured teachers so nicely rest on their cushioned, completely predictable existence. Most show no sign of engagement in their profession as teachers. Probably most ended up in the profession only “by accident,” or how many people want to become teachers after finishing high school? Most failed, let’s say, an engineering degree and then switched to teaching or, as Germanists and gender experts, didn’t get a job and reluctantly switched to a school. From the forum name Eva-Maria, one might even guess that the original poster is a religion teacher. That our state considers imparting Christian faith as an educational task and funds it is, to me, an unacceptable state of affairs. This also applies to the funding of educational institutions – the university institutes for theology are NOT paid for by the church, but by the federal states.
As for me, I completed the engineering degree and certainly cannot complain about my salary. I also don’t believe I will ever lose my job. But that is based on the idea of merit; with tenured teachers, that is not necessarily the case!