Digby Jones - Civil service could have half the staff.

Sir_Humphrey

macaque wrote: »

The first law of holes states: 'When you are in one, stop digging'.

Then you should stop digging then! What on Earth were on about in your previous post?

macaque wrote: »

The week after that, the advertisments were.

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chewmylegoff

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

Then you should stop digging then! What on Earth were on about in your previous post????

the missing word is "wibble".

Sir_Humphrey

chewmylegoff wrote: »

the missing word is "wibble".

LOL. I wish the Thanks button worked on my Work Computer! On his usual website , housepricecrash.co.uk, s/he never had to argue as dissenting voices got banned by their moderators. Perhaps s/he is upset because I was Politically Incorrect to him/her? But, then reading some of the jackbooted nutters over there, s/he must be pretty thick-skinned usually.

Generali

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

LOL. I wish the Thanks button worked on my Work Computer! On his usual website , housepricecrash.co.uk, s/he never had to argue as dissenting voices got banned by their moderators. Perhaps s/he is upset because I was Politically Incorrect to him/her? But, then reading some of the jackbooted nutters over there, s/he must be pretty thick-skinned usually.

Them's crazy folk over there at HPC!

I signed up to them once, ages ago. They wanted me to post in a special thread for newbies before they granted me full posting privileges. As I read a few of the posts I realised they were privileges I was prepared to forgo!

Karen's_girl

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There are two issues here. Firstly, people with a strong work ethic often find work in public sector very frustrating. Secondly, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that the better jobs are reserved for insiders or the friends and family of insiders.[/quote]

So civil servants do not have a strong work ethic? There are people from all walks of life with a strong work ethic and the same goes for those without a strong work ethic. It happens in the private sector too. There will always be some who work harder than others. Also, not all govt depts are the same in the work that they do, so making sweeping generalisations is pointless.

olly300

macaque wrote: »

Firstly, people with a strong work ethic often find work in public sector very frustrating.

You have obviously never worked for a very large PLC then.

will-in-estoril

1. Advisor to Barclay Capital. (Look what happened to the banking sector.)
2. Advisor to Ford. (Look what happened to them, too, but maybe dear old Digby could blame it on <1> above!!)
3. Non-executive director of iSoft, overseeing huge payouts to directors. (It's now gone bust.)
4. Good friend of the Daily Mail. (Yes, that politically impartial newspaper with absolutely no agenda. Yeah, right!)
5. Talks about sacking people, yet is a member of a club (House of Lords) where it really is a job for life, where you cannot be sacked and where you are accountable to no-one, least of all the electorate.

The CV of a complete hypocrite.:D

movingforward2010

macaque wrote: »

You can call yourselves what you like but you are all living off the tax payer.

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:rolleyes::rolleyes: if your on the dole - your a scrounger , if you work as low paid admin staff in the civil service your a scrounger!

Believe it or not we pay tax and Ni too!!!:rolleyes:

macaque_2

A £35 billion hole has appeared in local Council Pensions. The fair solution would be for the public sector accept slightly more modest pension terms. So what are they doing? You guessed it; they are pillaging the budget and looking for ways to cut back on services.

Many councils are pouring millions of pounds a year extra into their pension funds to help close the deficits.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/4330721/35-billion-black-hole-in-council-pensions.html

Perhaps we could ask a Labour Peer to put down a amendement. Hang on, can we afford to do that?

Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5581547.ece

Can it be any wonder we are becoming cynical about the way we are governed?