They have probably the most secure jobs in the country, the price they pay is crappier salaries than they'd get in the real world. If they don't like it they can always quit and work somewhere else. What we need is someone to get rid of public sector unions...
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostThey have probably the most secure jobs in the country, the price they pay is crappier salaries than they'd get in the real world. If they don't like it they can always quit and work somewhere else. What we need is someone to get rid of public sector unions too...Blood in your poo -
Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostWhat we need is someone to get rid of public sector unions too..."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by Sausage Surprise View PostI'm sitting in the office of one such establishment at this very moment (large one in Scotland). At 10.15 this morning I sauntered downstairs to the canteen to get a coffee the canteen had at least 200 of them sitting stuffing their faces....they work flexi time you knowǝןqqıʍComment
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostThis is another thing that annoys me. I've worked on a couple of public sector contracts when people wander in around 10, spend a few hours chatting, leave at 3 and still seem to accrue a flexi-day every week so they don't bother coming in on Fridays. Nice to see your tax pound put to such efficient use.
Course, that doesn't prevent them dossing around all day once checked in. But it's a start.Comment
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Originally posted by Marina View PostThere's a simple solution to that - clocking in and out with security cards, and if anyone is caught using someone else's card both should be dismissed.
Course, that doesn't prevent them dossing around all day once checked in. But it's a start.ǝןqqıʍComment
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostThey have probably the most secure jobs in the country, the price they pay is crappier salaries than they'd get in the real world. If they don't like it they can always quit and work somewhere else. What we need is someone to get rid of public sector unions...
Shoot them all and replace them with slaves.Comment
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostIt's a great plan, except I can see the news story now with some scouse union leader banging on about how it'd be an infringement of their human rights or some other such tulip.Confusion is a natural state of beingComment
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostThis is another thing that annoys me. I've worked on a couple of public sector contracts when people wander in around 10, spend a few hours chatting, leave at 3 and still seem to accrue a flexi-day every week so they don't bother coming in on Fridays. Nice to see your tax pound put to such efficient use.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostThis is another thing that annoys me. I've worked on a couple of public sector contracts when people wander in around 10, spend a few hours chatting, leave at 3 and still seem to accrue a flexi-day every week so they don't bother coming in on Fridays. Nice to see your tax pound put to such efficient use.Comment
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