Enough is enough! Chuck 'em out

julieq

The esteemed Dervish is doing well at pointing out to the threat to our women and children from the hordes of Johnny (and Jane, let's not be sexist), Foreigner, but there is a far greater menace to our prosperity and way of life, and it is time to jettison the shackles of political correctness and have done with them once and for all!

I talk, of course, of the office idle. It is a modern plague, in every office, big and small across the fair land of Albion, are hordes of the lazy, people who seem to feel they can justify their pay cheque by gossiping around the coffee machine or reading facebook pages. Worse still, there are many highly paid individuals who spend hours of each day posting ill informed nonsense as fact onto "Internet Forums" instead of creating quotes for ball bearing deliveries in Stoke or whatever it is they are supposed to be doing.

Thankfully the current economic crisis will cut out much of this dead wood from the workplace, but what then? They'll just do the same thing ON BENEFITS.

Chuck 'em out I say. Give their homes and jobs to those who work hard, who don't ask for an annual pay rise simply because they turned up to the office, and appreciate the chance they have to better themselves.

Lotus-eater

I take it that you will be one of the ones "chucked out" then?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Thats Stoke for you.

Lotus-eater

lynzpower wrote: »

Since when has Dervish been "esteemed"

I thought most people thought that Dervish was a mental racist who is barely given the time of day

Wheres that sockpuppet guy when you need him

:rotfl:

nicebelvoir

Stuff you.

Employment is a two way contract. If my employer fails to offer the kind of stimulating work with suitable reward then I'll make adjustments.

mizzbiz

Most jobs require you to get the work done at the highest possible standard within deadlines. There's no exact science that says this must take exactly 40 hours per week, non stop!

What you are saying is just ignorant. If people aren't getting their work done, there will be performance management issues in any decent company, with the outcome, if they are that lazy, being dismissal. To equate the occasional bit of slacking with an end to our way of life is a little extreme, is it not?

But then, what can we expect from an angry Buy-to-letter. Bitterness and misery are thy name it seems. Don't worry, don't let it get under your skin, there's millions of idiots in the same position.

vivatifosi

Must just be me, I read julieq's post as irony.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Must just be me, I read julieq's post as irony.

Not just you.

BTW, very good signature

Soubrette

vivatifosi wrote: »

Must just be me, I read julieq's post as irony.

me three

Sou

mizzbiz

For clarity, so was mine. I have no idea if Julieq is a buy-to-letter or not, just having some fun. Although my first two sentences apply if the OP was in fact serious.

Graham_Devon

mizzbiz wrote: »

Most jobs require you to get the work done at the highest possible standard within deadlines. There's no exact science that says this must take exactly 40 hours per week, non stop!

Theres actually someone I work with who has this thing about working non stop for the hours they are contracted to work. Even if there is no work, they won't sit back for a while like the rest of us would, oh no.

The worst thing we ever found her doing was litterally spending about an hour painstakingly removing little bits of selotape from the wall from over the years and then moving on to massaging a cork board as she said there were too many holes in one area of the board.

So while everyone else is having a natter as theres just nothing going on (but could be in half an hour, who knows!) shes stuck in the office, clock watching, massaging a cork board

Tell you what though, she walks in through the door bang on time, and leaves, also, bang on time. And she will leave even if shes in the middle of something pretty urgent. 4.27pm and thats it for her, then she will wait till 4.30 and leave the building right on time, no matter what is going on.