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Post by Boilerplate on Aug 20, 2010 11:56:16 GMT
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Post by Simon Lill on Aug 20, 2010 12:01:52 GMT
A thread about 'wasting the day' on an active forum at 1pm on a Friday.
The irony! :-)
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Post by carefreeoufc on Aug 20, 2010 12:19:29 GMT
Ive been cleaning a county council building during the weekdays. And I must admit its an absolute joke. They do nothing from what I can see (I only do one department) and when it gets to 5 the majority sit there until 6:30 - 7 adding the time on for flexi time on a friday.
Theres one I call the "pig" she really is a disgrace sits there pretty much in her own filth until 6:45 then waddles off to the khazi before falling into her car to go home. Because she works so "hard" and stays until 6:30ish she only does until lunch time on a friday.
Anyway I suppose I am slightly biased cleaning up after them. But the "pig" truly is disgusting.
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Post by prioryscholsey on Aug 20, 2010 12:25:45 GMT
i saw somebody from the council with a strimmer about to cut the verge outside the pub he had a cig and a sandwich and then put it back in the wagon and drove off... what a joke...
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Post by myles on Aug 20, 2010 12:41:53 GMT
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Post by Boogaloo on Aug 20, 2010 12:43:55 GMT
I love the line:-
Knox D'Arcy, who carried out the research, claimed that if all councils improved their staff utilisation rates from 32% to the private sector's 44% the same amount of work could be done with 500,000 fewer staff.
With David Cameron planning on cutting jobs in the public sector, this sends out a VERY CLEAR MESSAGE - If you want to keep your job, stop Working hard, and Start Playing FreeCell instead! ;D ;D
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Post by carefreeoufc on Aug 20, 2010 12:51:08 GMT
"With David Cameron planning on cutting jobs in the public sector, this sends out a VERY CLEAR MESSAGE - If you want to keep your job, stop Working hard, and Start Playing FreeCell instead! ;D ;D"
I can already hear the Minesweeper competitons being announced in their offices this evening.
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Post by Agadoo on Aug 20, 2010 13:03:00 GMT
Or maybe they just waste time on the internet?  |
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Post by dabigfella on Aug 20, 2010 16:37:54 GMT
Of course we could save twice as much by not hiring prattheads who call themselves consultants!
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Post by HKYellow on Aug 21, 2010 0:32:34 GMT
I totally agree with this. When I was younger doing my degree, I did some work experience at a county council. Now we are going back a few years, to the day when they still smoked in the office's but I have never seen such a bunch of lazy bastards. They did so little work, they had a fat women who wouldnt type as she had a hand injury from too much typing. I hardly ever saw anyone as they would be in "meetings"....
A lot of the civil service employs people that wouldnt stand a chance in the Private Sector.
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Post by mcf86 on Aug 21, 2010 5:51:24 GMT
Some cruel and largely unjustified stereotyping of Council Staff. In just about any large Organisation there are or have been a proportion of work shy employees, the Motor Industry of the seventies for example.
The majority of present day Council Staff from my experience are skilled or semi-skilled, hard working efficient people. So to tarnish everybody with the same brush is unfair and wrong.
The City Council has a 'Better Homes' Standard target to reach (Set by Central Government)
and is on course to achieving that by 2012.
On many local Estates (not all, yet.) the Council owned Housing stock is more often than not far better maintained than the Privately Owned/rented sector. Which is imo testament to the hard work of Council employees.
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Post by Boilerplate on Aug 22, 2010 13:42:42 GMT
Some cruel and largely unjustified stereotyping of Council Staff. In just about any large Organisation there are or have been a proportion of work shy employees, the Motor Industry of the seventies for example.
The majority of present day Council Staff from my experience are skilled or semi-skilled, hard working efficient people. So to tarnish everybody with the same brush is unfair and wrong.
The City Council has a 'Better Homes' Standard target to reach (Set by Central Government)
and is on course to achieving that by 2012.
On many local Estates (not all, yet.) the Council owned Housing stock is more often than not far better maintained than the Privately Owned/rented sector. Which is imo testament to the hard work of Council employees. Fair Enough. A Small minority, sadly. |
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