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I worked in social care for a number of years. Prior to that I was unemployed for a time and prior to that I’d left a job in IT in schools because it was already somewhat dispiriting and was about to get worse. I was Microsoft and Cisco trained because, at some time in my youth, I was a bit less crap at computers than my classmates and drifted in that direction. Years later I was miserable and due to be TUPE transferred to a private company. It was a terrible idea to outsource school resources and facilities to profit making businesses. Everyone knew it, but it happened anyway as it was all wrapped up with New Labour's building of new schools. It was the pre-academisation march of drawing the public sector, and particularly its funds, away from public accountability and into private hands. I was told by my manager that our jobs would remain the same. He stood to benefit from the transfer but I would be down-skilled much as the school would be under-resourced as part of a series of