P*ss boilers

[pugwash4x4]

sounds just like the enviroment agency office i temped in a while ago- incredibly laxidasical approach to working!

[anonymous-user]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292336/Wh...

thought you gents would enjoy the follow up article...

[br d]

A bloke I know who works for the DLO of a large London council gets 39 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays. He also gets 2 days a month flexi-time which he always takes even though he is never in his office before 9 and always leaves by 3.

So that's 71 days off a year and he's on over 60 grand.

[youngsyr]

Willie Dee said:

markcoznottz said:

yes they are from Daily Wail, but it is our money .......

How does that make linking to something as atrocious as the Daily Mail OK?

Indeed, the only noteworthy thread regarding that paper is if by some miracle (or more likely horrendous oversight) it didn't include multiple p!ss boilers on a given day.

[youngsyr]

br d said:

A bloke I know who works for the DLO of a large London council gets 39 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays. He also gets 2 days a month flexi-time which he always takes even though he is never in his office before 9 and always leaves by 3.

So that's 71 days off a year and he's on over 60 grand.

... and who says fraud doesn't pay?

[nonuts]

If any of those last two links are true or even 50% true that summs up the issues that the government need to address IMO!

[AJS-]

That public sector one is like a Viz article.


On the plus side though, this bodes well for some HUGE cuts, if they Daily Mail has captured the public mood wiht this sort of thing.

If they've just captured the "Mail Mood" then it's business as usual.

[TankRizzo]

johnfm said:

The six month sickie is true. Father in law used to manage a council care unit for caring for those with disabilities. A small number of staff (2 or 3) knew the rules and would be sick for months, come back to work for 3-4 weeks, then go on sick again.

Very hard to dismiss them too. But, they were only leeching £15k or so per year.

My best man for my wedding used to work with someone at Winfrith UKAEA who did just that. He went off sick with "stress" for six months. In that time he was spotted by his workmates working as a doorman in one of the local clubs. One day before he would have gone onto half pay, he returned to work claiming he was all better.

Apparently this was quite commonplace.

[AJS-]

Sounds like a great job though.

[AJS-]

Article said said:

Just a few decades ago, if you lived in social housing, people would come and look at your property, and the rules dictated that if you had possessions that were worth anything, the authorities would force you to sell them to contribute towards your rent.
Of course, no one is saying we should return to such harsh attitudes, but the system does seem to have swung far too far the other way.

No one? I am.

In fact I'd return to even harsher values than that and say if you can't buy, build or rent your own house, stay with relatives, and if even your family won't have you sleep under a bridge.

[Deva Link]

fbrs said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292336/Wh...

thought you gents would enjoy the follow up article...

That's even less believable than the first article.

As many people pointed out in the comments, why would a family from Portugal go straight to the top of the list? If it's blatent fraud and the author knows it, then why hasn't he done anything about it?

[AJS-]

Interesting point at the beginning of the planning one

article said said:

Our department has 60 employees and - until last Tuesday - a budget of £22million

That's 366,000 per employee. That is HUGE. What they hell are they doing with it all?

[anonymous-user]

Deva Link said:

fbrs said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292336/Wh...

thought you gents would enjoy the follow up article...

That's even less believable than the first article.

As many people pointed out in the comments, why would a family from Portugal go straight to the top of the list? If it's blatent fraud and the author knows it, then why hasn't he done anything about it?

well i don't vouch for its accuracy all i will say is the link was forwarded to me by a good friend who has an 850k flat in w1. the 2 other flats in 'his' house are both let to foreign council tenants. the council pays 700quid a week. each. i'm going to go with blatent fraud.

[Deva Link]

AJS- said:

Interesting point at the beginning of the planning one

article said said:

Our department has 60 employees and - until last Tuesday - a budget of £22million

That's 366,000 per employee. That is HUGE. What they hell are they doing with it all?

Training. Rent, IT, HR, canteen etc etc etc.

[AJS-]

If my company of 20 people could turn over a third of that we'd be on a damn good wicket.

[AJS-]

Oooooooooh it makes me mad

[Dupont666]

fbrs said:

Deva Link said:

fbrs said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292336/Wh...

thought you gents would enjoy the follow up article...

That's even less believable than the first article.

As many people pointed out in the comments, why would a family from Portugal go straight to the top of the list? If it's blatent fraud and the author knows it, then why hasn't he done anything about it?

well i don't vouch for its accuracy all i will say is the link was forwarded to me by a good friend who has an 850k flat in w1. the 2 other flats in 'his' house are both let to foreign council tenants. the council pays 700quid a week. each. i'm going to go with blatent fraud.

And yet if you listen to them bleat about the price cap on rent, they are claiming its unfair that £400 is the limit as it means the scroungers cant live in affluent areas in the million £ flats and houses that they dont pay for... all completely unfair isnt it... shame