How is it that I can always recognise

[Thankyou4calling]

People who work for the local authority or public services?

They have a certain look and I can always spot it.

Can anyone else do the same?

[zarjaz1991]

Yes. It's a look of smugness and superiority, coupled with the knowledge that if you don't do exactly as they tell you, they have all sorts of powers to enforce compliance and / or punish you for your insubordination.

[jonny996]

yes, they stand out a mile & when they speak it is confirmed.

[andy-xr]

It's the rucksack and 3 days unshaven together with lack of jacket and tie

[xjay1337]

andy-xr said:

It's the rucksack and 3 days unshaven together with lack of jacket and tie

Sounds like me and I work for a private company.

I fail to see how jacket and tie gives anything anyway lol.

[MrCarPark]

It's teachers that grate. Talk to everyone as if they're a needy infant

[Thankyou4calling]

Yes teachers. That's what prompted me. I was in the chippy last night and a bloke came in with one of those security tags around his neck on a lanyard, it said TEACHER, but it didn't need to, you could tell. Same with Social workers, Environmental health officers, Town planners. They have a look and smugness is always on display.

[jonny996]

it is them knowing that they will never ever get sacked, no matter how big a mistake they make.

[MrBarry123]

Thankyou4calling said:

Yes teachers. That's what prompted me. I was in the chippy last night and a bloke came in with one of those security tags around his neck on a lanyard, it said TEACHER, but it didn't need to, you could tell. Same with Social workers, Environmental health officers, Town planners. They have a look and smugness is always on display.

I'm sure you could with the fking lanyard around his neck!



I bet you can also recognise binmen on sight... When they get out of the lorry and grab your bins?

[deckster]

Thankyou4calling said:

Yes teachers. That's what prompted me. I was in the chippy last night and a bloke came in with one of those security tags around his neck on a lanyard, it said TEACHER, but it didn't need to, you could tell. Same with Social workers, Environmental health officers, Town planners. They have a look and smugness is always on display.

In the chippy to replenish the stash that you carry around on your shoulder, I assume.

[Hackney]

Thankyou4calling said:

People who work for the local authority or public services?

They have a certain look and I can always spot it.

Can anyone else do the same?

[Thankyou4calling]

MrBarry123 said:

I'm sure you could with the fking lanyard around his neck!



I bet you can also recognise binmen on sight... When they get out of the lorry and grab your bins?

Funny guy :-)

I clocked him as a "Public servant" well before i saw the lanyard, that just confirmed it.

[crankedup]

jonny996 said:

it is them knowing that they will never ever get sacked, no matter how big a mistake they make.

Outdated POV, many services are now contracted out into the private sector, those that are not there yet soon will be. Others are facing redundancy as services merge with neighbouring Councils. Unlike the private sector these decisions are made on a Political and financial basis, the employee is simply a pawn.

[Ari]

Thankyou4calling said:

MrBarry123 said:

I'm sure you could with the fking lanyard around his neck!



I bet you can also recognise binmen on sight... When they get out of the lorry and grab your bins?

Funny guy :-)

I clocked him as a "Public servant" well before i saw the lanyard, that just confirmed it.

Of course you did.

[EskimoArapaho]

Thankyou4calling said:

People who work for the local authority or public services?

They have a certain look and I can always spot it.

Can anyone else do the same?

How do you know? I mean for those people who you think might be public sector employees, do you go up and ask them all? And you've got a 100% success rate on that?

Thought not. Just more I'm-more-PH-than-you-ism.

[Pickled Piper]

Lanyards. What's all that about?

Surely you can keep your pass in you pocket.

[Hackney]

Pickled Piper said:

Lanyards. What's all that about?

Surely you can keep your pass in you pocket.

But then how will people know who you are?

[Hackney]

anonymous said:

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Surely you've clocked that they're strippers by the dancing and wandering round the strip club even before you're close enough to smell them?

[mph1977]

crankedup said:

jonny996 said:

it is them knowing that they will never ever get sacked, no matter how big a mistake they make.

Outdated POV, many services are now contracted out into the private sector, those that are not there yet soon will be. Others are facing redundancy as services merge with neighbouring Councils. Unlike the private sector these decisions are made on a Political and financial basis, the employee is simply a pawn.

as for never sacked regardless of the mistakes they make, i strongly sugfgest a perusal of the fitness to practice prages of any of the professional regulators ... and see how easy it is not only to get sacked but to have your professional registration suspended or removed ...

[StuTheGrouch]

Pickled Piper said:

Lanyards. What's all that about?

Surely you can keep your pass in you pocket.

I can answer this one. We have printers which you can collect your prints from using your print card and then a number of doors which require either a swipe card or said print card. Having both in a lanyard makes it easier.

That said, to get a lanyard I would need to walk to security to get one and in 6 years I have not managed to find the energy to be bothered. So I keep my cards in my wallet and get annoyed at having to get them out all the time.

(I am not a public sector worker though)