Jobs-worth LOLs

[djc206]

Dodsy said:

I am having to deal with the county council a lot at the moment...

I feel for you. I used to work in a county council transport department. It was full of people who wouldn't get real jobs in the private sector but for some reason passed their annual competency assessment at the council. As a consequence inefficiency is par for the course nay encouraged.

[Puggit]

djc206 said:

Dodsy said:

I am having to deal with the county council a lot at the moment...

I feel for you. I used to work in a county council transport department. It was full of people who wouldn't get real jobs in the private sector but for some reason passed their annual competency assessment at the council. As a consequence inefficiency is par for the course nay encouraged.

Our son was being physically bullied on the council provided transport to school (a taxi company minibus). Mrs Puggit contacted them to complain and the response was to attack us for not being ready each morning when the bus/taxi/thing arrives (we have a shared drive and they expect us to wait at the end on the public road while the collection time varies by 20 mins each day).

[bazza white]

It must be a cinema thing. I went to a showcase cinema just outside of Cardiff. We were sat next to a duff speaker that kept making a really loud whirring/buzzing noise and I mean loud, though it may stop after a few adverts but 5 mins into the film the film stopped for them to sort, 5 mins later they restart and the noise was back, after another 10 minutes I walked out and complained as it was one of those films with a big opened and we had missed it. I asked for a refund and they offered 50% of my money back as they stated as i had watched some of the film I wasnt entitled to a full refund. I was pretty gob smacked Tbh. I argued for a bit then a few others walked out and demanded refund less politely than I did and they soon gave up as a crowd of angry people had formed.

[DoubleSix]

Dodsy said:

I am having to deal with the county council a lot at the moment over issues with my kids school. You want jobsworths then they have everyone else beaten. Their meaning in life is to interpret rules then stick to it no matter what.

Council:Your sons travel is arranged by the transport department. You'll need to wait for them to get in touch, takes 2 weeks
Me: Roll on two weeks, heard nothing, call them back.
Council: Oh well you havent submitted the transport request form.
Me:You never sent me the form.
Council: Ah you never asked me to send the form.
Me: I didnt know I needed a form.
Council: Its not my job to tell you what forms you need, you have to ask me what form you need and I would have told you
me: That doesnt even make sense


Council: We have agreed and allocated the funding for your sons transport now we have received your form
Me: Great ! So how do we arrange it
Council: We send this form to the transport department. They decide if they want to actually offer the transport or not
me: But we have agreed he needs it and you have the money allocated for it
Coucil: ah but its still up to the transport manager to decided if he thinks he should provide it
me: Why is it up to him - and what if he decides arbitrarily that he doesnt want to provide it
Council: Its up to him because thats his job - if declines it he just returns the form
Me: and then what
Council: oh we just ring him and tell him to do it anyway
Me: So why dont you just ring him and tell him now ?


I have a lot of these stories. Its unbelievable the lengths they will go to not to help you.

I want to laugh but it's not even funny is it? These cretins standing in the way of people who genuinely need their assistance. Boils my piss.

[dai1983]

BHC said:

Yes, your friend is a complete knob.

Yeah he is I suppose and I was shocked about how he handled it. I don't see him so much and each time I do he ends up being arsey about something for no reason. You could say I avoid him.

Armed forces civilian store men can be quite jobs worthy. "Could I please have a tub of washing powder for the use of the entire block?" "No as I've only got two on the shelf"

[kowalski655]

The woman in Tesco the other day who age checked me when I bought the Lego Movie....certificate U!!!!

Perhaps the self service till told her, if so maybe the IT guy who programmed it is the jobsworth

[Axionknight]

Oldandslow said:

Which one?

The mate throwing food on the floor.

[Dakkon]

Dodsy said:

I am having to deal with the county council a lot at the moment over issues with my kids school. You want jobsworths then they have everyone else beaten. Their meaning in life is to interpret rules then stick to it no matter what.

Council:Your sons travel is arranged by the transport department. You'll need to wait for them to get in touch, takes 2 weeks
Me: Roll on two weeks, heard nothing, call them back.
Council: Oh well you havent submitted the transport request form.
Me:You never sent me the form.
Council: Ah you never asked me to send the form.
Me: I didnt know I needed a form.
Council: Its not my job to tell you what forms you need, you have to ask me what form you need and I would have told you
me: That doesnt even make sense


Council: We have agreed and allocated the funding for your sons transport now we have received your form
Me: Great ! So how do we arrange it
Council: We send this form to the transport department. They decide if they want to actually offer the transport or not
me: But we have agreed he needs it and you have the money allocated for it
Coucil: ah but its still up to the transport manager to decided if he thinks he should provide it
me: Why is it up to him - and what if he decides arbitrarily that he doesnt want to provide it
Council: Its up to him because thats his job - if declines it he just returns the form
Me: and then what
Council: oh we just ring him and tell him to do it anyway
Me: So why dont you just ring him and tell him now ?


I have a lot of these stories. Its unbelievable the lengths they will go to not to help you.

You could always take your own child to school?

[Moonhawk]

Dodsy said:

Council: Its not my job to tell you what forms you need, you have to ask me what form you need and I would have told you

haha - actually just reminded me of a situation my wife had at our new Doctors a few weeks back.

Doctors surgery has two main entrances - one at the front of the building and one to the side, off the car park.

Booked a late evening appointment ~7:30pm. Told to use the "side entrance" as the front doors are locked at 6pm. "No problem" we thought - that's the entrance we normally use anyway.

Turns up at 7:20pm - Side doors locked. Checked front doors - also locked. Place appeared to be deserted - knocked - no answer. No signs indicating there was a separate "out of hours" or "late appointments" entrance.

Went home to check opening times etc on the internet thinking we may have got the wrong day - but sure enough the date/time etc was correct.

Went back to the surgery (was probably 7:35 by this time) - tried the doors again - still locked. Walked all the way around the building via the car park - and as we got right round the other side, noticed somebody coming out of a small recessed door at the rear of the building. The door had no signage/nothing - just a bell and a combination lock.

Rang the bell on this door and somebody answered and it turns out this is the correct entrance. Explained that we were now late, the reason being that we had been told to go to the side entrance......the reply was "this is the side entrance" (even though it's round the back) and that because we were a few minutes late - my wife couldn't now see the doctor as we had missed our allocated appointment. We had to make another one which took another week.

When I highlighted this to the receptionist the next time I was in and suggested that a sign on the side entrance wouldn't go amiss to direct patients to the hidden out of hours entrance and thus prevent missed appointments which benefits nobody - their reasons for not doing so was.

a) "We don't need to put a sign up because you should have been told about the 'other' side entrance when you booked....the one round the back.....if you weren't told about it - you should have asked" LOL-wut?

and

b) "We don't want to put a sign up as we don't want people wandering round the car park"

When I pointed out that we only found the other entrance by wandering round the car park and therefore the lack of a sign is encouraging exactly the behaviour they wish to avoid..........I was stared at blankly.

I do wonder how many appointments have been missed this way - all for the sake of a piece of paper and a blob of blu-tack.

Edited by Moonhawk on Thursday 31st July 16:34

[irocfan]

face it people are s

I've got to be honest there are times when I think that a few years working for the local council would be an easy gig - but then I think about how wound up I'd get at PCness, jobsworths, general pettiness and labourite it'd be and I think again!!

[STW2010]

Believe me, working at a local authority is an easy life. They have at least 2 people doing what a normal person could do themselves.

I worked for a waste team and found that the lack of things to do was turning me into a lazy bd- I couldn't believe how many people were doing such a small list of tasks. Didn't help that I worked 5 minutes drive from where I lived (so I could roll out of bed anytime before 9:30 and still not be late- not that anyone cared anyway). When I decided to take a job which might occupy me for more than 2 hours a day (which at the council I spread out over 8 hours) I used up the time in lieu to work just my core hours (10am til 4pm) every day for a whole month. I still easily managed to start a new project off of my own back and get everything else done in those hours.

A joke really. People at the council moan about a few things too. 1. they are understaffed and too busy (see above- they aren't), 2. they are concerned about any office moves (which would mean that they had to do something other than sitting on their arse browsing facebook), and 3. they can't get a job elsewhere (because they are st and have hit the upper limits of their usefulness.

[BlackST]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I politely suggested she nip down to Morrison's and buy a pot of mustard. Nothing wild to start with like Colemans, just a small pot of Morrison's own brand mustard, to see how it goes. I said it could be the first step towards that all important Michelin star that has eluded them for so long.

She genuinely looked at me as if I was completely mental.

I think you are expecting too much from St Helens

[surveyor]

When I was a student I worked for BT as eventually a Team Leader. Heady heights! In the team I had a chap, let's call him Matthew. Matthew was on the face of it a pleasant 18 your old kid. But he could whine for England and fk up the simplest task/call.

We had one call, which was taking calls for retailers about On Digital, before it went live. This was important to the company as they wanted the contract to run the call centre when it went live. As such we had one person whose job it was to answer the one call a night. Matthew missed the one call because he was whining to my boss that he was bored....

The real jobsworth moment, was on a call that we took for Carphone Warehouse. Our job was to tell people where their nearest store is. Easy. How can you fk it up? I had to take over a call, where the guy had asked for a supervisor. Only time with this client that it ever happened, as you can't fk it up can you?

Turned out that this chap was old school, and wanted to write down Matthew's full name. Matthew refused to give it to him. World War three ensued. I placated the man rather easily by giving him my name. To be noted, if Matthew felt uncomfortable no-one would have known any the wiser if he'd said 'Steve'.

Unfortunately it was policy that we did not have to disclose Surnames, so I could not do fk all, right then. However I'd taken a lad onto my team who had fallen out with a colleague on another team due to a religious clash. This avoided him being fired. At the next team leader meeting I got a bking from the new lad's former team leader. For not swapping someone to her.... Our manager was beside himself trying not to laugh as I described Matthew and offered him on a plate....

Sorry a bit longer than needed!

[Bullett]

Council again.

Got a letter sent to us saying we needed to apply for primary school for the boy.
Fill in the form send it back stuff. Pretty simple.
We needed to provide proof of address even though they wrote to us.
Wife calls them up as there is no clue as to what is acceptable.
After a discussion on why we need to provide proof of where we live, to people who wrote to us, it is established that a council tax bill is required.
We've lost this (we pay by DD and it's nearly the new FY anyway).
Can they contact the CT dept to validate.
"No"
So we have to write (no email or phone accepted) and request another bill and when we get it send it back to the same council address (diff dept though) to validate our address.

He's going private. We couldn't just tell them that though, we had to apply and then refuse the place. So they can then allocate someone from the waiting list.


Sigh.

[Japveesix]

RDJ said:

Sorry I didn't explain it properly; she DID scan the crisps. It was when she saw me returning them to the shelf she insisted I take them with me.

What sort of weirdo pays for something in a supermarket then puts it back on the shelf?

[RDJ]

Japveesix said:

RDJ said:

Sorry I didn't explain it properly; she DID scan the crisps. It was when she saw me returning them to the shelf she insisted I take them with me.

What sort of weirdo pays for something in a supermarket then puts it back on the shelf?

Someone who doesn't like crisps and wants to pay less for the two items they do want

[Daniel1]

I was trying to order a double cheeseburger at McDonald's and the young lady told me they were unavailable due to a lack of buns....But I could have a cheeseburger

No amount of reasoning could convince her to let me have a double cheeseburger.

So I made my own out of two cheeseburgers right in front of her, vigilante that i am.

[MajorProblem]

Had a job on where we were dropped on by a health and safety inspector sent from the principal contractor, he could not find a single thing wrong, which in turn got him worked up so he reported me for not wearing my safety glasses...

When I was having a piss.

[Daniel1]

MajorProblem said:

Had a job on where we were dropped on by a health and safety inspector sent from the principal contractor, he could not find a single thing wrong, which in turn got him worked up so he reported me for not wearing my safety glasses...

When I was having a piss.

Jesus - you could have had splash back you cocksure mentalist.

[Moonhawk]

Daniel1 said:

Jesus - you could have had splash back you cocksure mentalist.

Never heard that word before - but it's the second website today I have seen it used......

The other one was a review of Guardians of the Galaxy.