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What Public service wastages do you see?

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  • wymondham
    wymondham Posts: 6,356 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    edited 5 July 2010 at 2:42PM
    Not quite in keeping with the question, but one thing that always made me laugh .... I was delivering a PC back to a large customer a few years back - i usually just left it on reception but they had recently been taken over by a european company and now I had to sit through a two hour health and safety film on climbing ladders. Needless to say we charged them to deliver their PC!!
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Is that why they have all dissapeared!?

    LOL. I thought they were quite a good deterrent myself. Just reminded you of your speed. The one I used to go past every day was handy, as it was yards before a speed camera and a school, so win win...but yup, all the ones I knew have certainly dissapeared.

    Still got them near me.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • dave4545454
    dave4545454 Posts: 2,025 Forumite
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    robin_banks wrote: »
    Just how many job interviews have you failed at this council ?.

    about 30, even ones where i came top in the written test! definitely a case of 'who you know not what you know'
    Martin has asked me to tell you I'm about to cut the cheese, pull my finger.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    dave4545454 wrote: »
    about 30, even ones where i came top in the written test! definitely a case of 'who you know not what you know'

    From knowing a few insiders I can tell you that they would be more interested in your knowledge and views on equality and diversity than whether you could do the job.
  • A._Badger
    A._Badger Posts: 5,881 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    ILW wrote: »
    From knowing a few insiders I can tell you that they would be more interested in your knowledge and views on equality and diversity than whether you could do the job.

    Too true. I nearly chipped-in a 'whether you read the Independent and vote the prescribed way'.
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    edited 5 July 2010 at 10:06PM
    Agree on the stupid dept mags that get posted to each office throughout the country, about 1 per 3 employees... straight to bin :mad:

    Equality & diversity training, often 100hrs lost per office at each 'update', just to tick boxes- and kill motivation....

    Regional team building meets/ conferences. Why pay each employee milage to trek to some leisure centre 30 odd miles away to drink coffee and 'engage' in some role playing for the benefit of staff engagement and customer service exellence. Joy :cool:

    If we must endure this b0ll0x then send the HR/ development teams to us, so we can get it over as quickly as possible and hopfully try and get a couple hours work done too... I know, I'm being a bit too radical now...
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Simon11
    Simon11 Posts: 806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    If you see my first post, it cost £2,000 to organse 4 rides for four weeks. However appart from the paid leaders/marshals no one turned up! Lol!
    "No likey no need to hit thanks button!":p
    However its always nice to be thanked if you feel mine and other people's posts here offer great advice:D So hit the button if you likey:rotfl:
  • RabbitMad
    RabbitMad Posts: 2,069 Forumite
    on my way to work there is a lolly pop person who is paid to help children cross the road. No harm there I here you say. However the lolly pop lady is situated at a pelican crossing so is not needed at all.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    How would the Pelicans cross without her?
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    My sister works for Tubelines. In January they were all given laptops which cost about £1,000 each. Then with April 5th looming they found they had a budget underspend and bought 20 new laptops and sold the old ones to the staff for £50 each.
    The man without a signature.
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