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Proof of the sorry state of UK education: G4s fires 2 employees

for tagging an offer's false leg enabling him to break the terms of his curfew.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14705328

You couldn't make this up.

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  • System
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    What has failing to spot a false leg got to do with the sorry state of the nation's education?
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  • flashnazia
    flashnazia Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    I don't think you can blame education. More about laziness and the "can't be a r sed" attitude.

    People go to work without applying themselves. Want the money without effort.
    "fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell)
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    What has failing to spot a false leg got to do with the sorry state of the nation's education?

    Absolutely nothing.

    All it says is that changing the name from "Group 4" to "G4S" hasn't made them any less !!!!.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Proof of the sorry state of UK education

    Yep,

    You only need 46% to get an A in GCSE Artificial Limb Identification nowadays :eek:

    Bloody Scandal !!!!!!!!
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    flashnazia wrote: »
    I don't think you can blame education. More about laziness and the "can't be a r sed" attitude.

    Would that by chance be the three Rs?

    Picks up hat and walks away...:o
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • flashnazia
    flashnazia Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    Would that by chance be the three Rs?

    Picks up hat and walks away...:o

    Just trying to keep ahead of the site's blocked words feature.

    Arsed.

    Happy now?
    "fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell)
  • I'm sure this two will take it to the Industrial Tribunal, but personally I don't think they have a leg to stand on.
    G4S revealed managers became suspicious last month but when they returned to Lowcock's home he had been returned to custody accused of a driving-related offence.

    I wonder if the offense was ... er... driving with only one leg?
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