Public sector watch

[davepoth]

No, we're just a bit odd in the west. Swindon has form for stupid road markings anyway.

[anonymous-user]

So glad I'm out of the public sector now. Got absorbed in to it through complacency, it really shows up the "job for life and of course the pension" mentality. And being a "civil servant" is basically being an open target for anyone to moan and grumble to you. Of course, cock ups like above don't help matters. I don't mind contracting to a local authority but sod working within it, dealing with the armchair expert public.

However, council's always have pretty girls employed.

[williredale]

davepoth said:

No, we're just a bit odd in the west. Swindon has form for stupid road markings anyway.

Indeed. Do a google image search for Leonard Lane in Bristol... Swindon can't even be original in their stupidity!

[eccles]

Art0ir said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-221...

Painted by private sector contractors!

[chrisw666]

Problem - We need to save an additional £32million.

Solution - £95k a year Director of transformation.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/20...

[V8mate]

chrisw666 said:

Problem - We need to save an additional £32million.

Solution - £95k a year transformation manager.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/20...

But why recruit that position internally? Better to have someone you can get rid of with 24 hours notice, surely? Not to mention 'fresh pair of eyes' etc.

[chrisw666]

Because Labour controlled (maybe) and looking after the one who is facing redundancy, or nearing retirement is the way things have always been done.

[sd477667]

kowalski655 said:

Thrown stuff has always been dangerous



Ban ALL food,let the little sods starve

Never knew if that sausage was being stolen or thrown

[ewenm]

Just overheard a conversation about how to claim flexitime credit because their train was late this morning.

[V8mate]

ewenm said:

Just overheard a conversation about how to claim flexitime credit because their train was late this morning.

Flexi-time is the biggest piss-take I have come across. It's basically an uncontrolled licence to do anything but come to work.

My boss accrues flexi credit at both ends of the day because he 'thinks about work from the moment he leaves the house in the morning and doesn't stop until he gets home'.

[ewenm]

It's the expectation that astounds me. A couple of others suggested that just like bad traffic (or a headwind on my cycle in!) you just suck it up, to be met with laughter and confused/blank looks.

[sd477667]

OpulentBob said:

However, council's always have pretty girls employed.

Most are right mingers where I am, they have 'couldn't get a job in the real world' written all over them.

[turbobloke]

"Council staff who claim Coalition cuts are putting them under intolerable pressure at work are wasting away office hours glued to Facebook, Argos and online dating sites, new research reveals."

Our council tax pays for internet loafing at work

[valiant]

^^^

What! How dare they! This would never happen in the private sector...

[Art0ir]

valiant said:

^^^

What! How dare they! This would never happen in the private sector...

We don't collectively pay for private sector employment.

[heebeegeetee]

V8mate said:

About time we had a central repository for the stories from our public sector which you just couldn't make up.


I'll start with today's Essex County Council ban on triangular flapjacks

A lot/most/all of this stuff is prosecuted by the legal industry,which is private sector.

[turbobloke]

Art0ir said:

valiant said:

^^^

What! How dare they! This would never happen in the private sector...

We don't collectively pay for private sector employment.

And we pay for public sector employment in nonjobs where people waste time at our expense, which makes it worse. The total time wasted on iPhones as well as desktops etc should be totalled and based on a fraction of the total time employees are meant to operate, that proportion of council jobs should disappear instantly. Also there seems to be no mention of these timewasting taxwasters being disciplined, presumably their bosses are all busy updating their presence on SugarDaddy in hope of some Presclot style desk action.

[SpeedMattersNot]

Art0ir said:

valiant said:

^^^

What! How dare they! This would never happen in the private sector...

We don't collectively pay for private sector employment.

Does this annoy you more than if a private sector employee did it?

I don't see a difference myself.

[valiant]

What if they were doing it on their lunch break?


Most employers allow this, don't they?

[turbobloke]

SpeedMattersNot said:

Art0ir said:

valiant said:

^^^

What! How dare they! This would never happen in the private sector...

We don't collectively pay for private sector employment.

Does this annoy you more than if a private sector employee did it?

I don't see a difference myself.

OK, but some people do see a difference in terms of wasting taxpayers' money rather than wasting privately owned money.

If private sector employers want to flush their own money down the toilet by allowing workers not to work when they're meant to be working and being paid to work, that's their choice with their own money. Public sector managers flushing public money taken from hardworking class taxpayers down the loo by not tackling timewasters isn't the same thing at all because it's taxpayers' money. Obvious, really.