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Massive Job Losses expected in Public Sector
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Meanwhile, i will be hiring two new staff in the New Year. I shall be discarding all those I see with public sector experience on their cvs. I don't want any anorak-wearing timeservers in my team.
Is wearing an anorak a preserve of the public sector?
I never knew that.
Are anoraks bad then?
Better warn the White Horse, then, so he can add people in anoraks to his list of hate figures.0 -
Is wearing an anorak a preserve of the public sector?
I never knew that.
Are anoraks bad then?
Better warn the White Horse, then, so he can add people in anoraks to his list of hate figures.
Are you sure they're not already on it? It's a comprehensive list that I'm quite sure covers every human on the planet by now."I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.0 -
sounds like the conservatives are too left wing for youHAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »The public sector is nothing but a giant parasite in the intestines of the wealth creating private sector.
It has now grown so large and so hungry for resources, it is in danger of killing off the host.
A massive public sector jobs cull, spending cuts, and benefits reductions to a strict time limit of 4 years per person per lifetime, (obviously excluding the genuinely severely disabled) would be a price worth paying for a house price crash.0 -
Cut the dead weight and streamline the management systems, cull the diversity operators on 40k plus, nannying, hectoring, 5 a day and condom co-ordinators who are like leeches on our council tax; the quangoistas, all the non jobs in the Guardian that hoover up the cash from the public purse, you know the ones with dubious titles on 75K+ with pensions BUPA et.al as lampooned by Littlejohn in the Mail. Put the savings into improving services, you could likely employ 4 streetscene operatives for the cost of one manager. But it will never happen because the vested interests will not permit it. How much has been wasted on Common Purpose "Leading Beyond Authority" (do it even if it is illegal immoral etc) leadership training at 9K a pop p[er trainee, by councils and government? requests under F.O.I anyone? The mind boggles. Rant over, time for a coffee, better make it a decaff in case I upset some health coordinator on 40K+0
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Is wearing an anorak a preserve of the public sector?
I never knew that.
Are anoraks bad then?
Better warn the White Horse, then, so he can add people in anoraks to his list of hate figures.
Yes, carolt, they are. I've made a scientific study of it.
They also wear cardigans instead of suit jackets, and - shudders to think of it - short-sleeved business shirts with woolknit ties in summer.0 -
zygurat789 wrote: »it just goes to show we obviously need [STRIKE]more[/STRIKE]better teachers.
Funny that I can't remember a time when there wasn't a teacher when I was at school. What I do remember are far too many who couldn't teach!
It's quality that matters not quantity. The public sector could easily lose 25-50% of its workforce and still operate just as [STRIKE]in[/STRIKE]efficiently as it does now. Trouble is, they'd get rid of the good workers and keep the hangers-on.0 -
As a little anecdote
the NHS employ managers who sit in rooms in hospitals looking at computer screens
their job is to go down and tell the short staffed A&E nurses that they have x amount of time to see x patients before they go over the alotted time limits
these managers are on more money than the NHS nurses
the nurses ask the managers to help them cope - however the managers are not medically trained and therefore cannot help
the result
patients sit outside A&E in ambulances - as they cannot be admitted as the staff have no chance of meeting the time limits
you couldn't make it up0 -
Yes, carolt, they are. I've made a scientific study of it.
They also wear cardigans instead of suit jackets, and - shudders to think of it - short-sleeved business shirts with woolknit ties in summer.
How horrid.
I'm sure they don't all, you know. I know plenty and they wear things like suits.
Dull, but not a capital offence.0 -
Funny that I can't remember a time when there wasn't a teacher when I was at school. What I do remember are far too many who couldn't teach!
It's quality that matters not quantity. The public sector could easily lose 25-50% of its workforce and still operate just as [STRIKE]in[/STRIKE]efficiently as it does now. Trouble is, they'd get rid of the good workers and keep the hangers-on.
How long ago were you at school?0 -
As a little anecdote
the NHS employ managers who sit in rooms in hospitals looking at computer screens
their job is to go down and tell the short staffed A&E nurses that they have x amount of time to see x patients before they go over the alotted time limits
these managers are on more money than the NHS nurses
the nurses ask the managers to help them cope - however the managers are not medically trained and therefore cannot help
the result
patients sit outside A&E in ambulances - as they cannot be admitted as the staff have no chance of meeting the time limits
you couldn't make it up
Answer: sack the managers, put a matron in charge, employ some more medical staff, and still save some money. Problem?
there would be no penpushers to tick the government target form boxes, as matron would be too busy making sure patients were seen and given appropriate care. That would never do, as ticking the box is more important than saving a life to some of our meddlesome politicians.0
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