I reckon the same for the previous post regarding the Cornish lower order who has to go without his evening pasty because someone stole his turnip money.
The turnip story was so obviously slop (the photo was clearly AI) that I'm surprised it was posted tbh. I also can't understand why people fall for those screenshotted text/whatsapp/social media messages either, as the vast majority of them are fake. The apps for generating them have been around for years.
I hope to God that is true because it’s given me the best laugh I’ve had in ages. And if it is I’m buying Denzil a pint if I’m ever down that way.
^^^^ Speaking of books. How are you getting along with St Nicola’s memoirs? Are all the photo pages stuck together yet? Tbh, I’m surprised she was able to remember enough information to fill a book as her answer to most questions tends to be “I cannae recall”, or is that only when she’s asked about her deleted WhatsApp messages?
I have to admit I'm at a loss as to what exactly is being ridiculed with wit, irony & sarcasm. Lower order farmers, pasties, bird scarers, honesty box thieves or perhaps turnips...
you have hit on something, it's one of those things that we're not supposed to laugh at but the more that it's put to us, the funnier It is, just human nature. I almost feel this could've been the subject of a fast show sketch. another entirely inappropriate :- https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-stole-devon-honesty-box-085415651.html if you see a red volvo with 3 suspicious looking onions* on the front seat, please call Devon Police. *normally only £1
Relax! My family is from Cornwall, though I was actually born over the border in Devon myself. Everything in life is not so serious imo, some light relief is good for us all.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/missing-texas-woman-african-tribe-scotland-b2811260.html The world just gets stranger and stranger……
Well. That just shows how lazy/inefficient public sector workers are if someone can do 4 of those jobs at the same time. 3 years is absolutely mental though. It will be because the fraud sentencing guideline brackets are based on the loss caused or gain obtained by the offence(s), but in this case it appears as if the councils got the quid pro quo, so it's difficult to see how they can be said to have lost anything and the defendant said he completed all his tasks, so he earned the money, not quite fair and square, but more or less. Rather than jailing him, he should have been put to work by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, training up the rest of the work-shy laggards and malingerers whose council tax funded carcasses are slumped in front of a computer every day they're not off sick with stress or on annual leave. My ex worked for a London local authority and in the 18 months she worked there while we were together, she never once saw her manager as she was signed off with some fictitious and undisproveable menkal 'elf complaint and then when the GP refused to issue any more sick notes, she used all her annual leave and after that, demanded she be allowed to work from home. My ex therefore had to do half of her boss' work as well her own and the stress and time thievery was a significant factor in fucking up our relationship.
A year or three back I posted a pic of a mate's Thunderbird combo I used to service. He moved there about 30 years ago. It still makes me laugh (apparently).
Someone who clearly has never had any experience of the public sector at all. All the old tropes and rubbish in a single post. My job involves working with a mix of public sector from local and regional government, Quangos and other government funded groups, up to National level. I wouldn’t do the jobs they do for the money they get, not even close. I have to keep my mouth firmly shut when they are discussing salaries. People making regionally important decisions are often on £33kish, local area officers around £25k. They are almost always worked into the ground and then give up, to be replaced by some other dupe who goes through the same cycle. There are idiots - there are in all workplaces, but I have the greatest respect for those who work in the public sector. We would be fooked without them. And I hope you never suffer mental illness. It has taken two of my mates over the years and attitudes like yours make it so much harder for people to seek help.
You couldn't be more wrong. For almost 20 years I have spent about 75% of my professional life doing battle with public bodies, mostly local authorities, but also housing associations and, on occasion, the CPS and DWP (who I also had the misfortune of being regularly instructed by for about a year in the early part of my career). I have also prosecuted cases for the NMC and defended cases brought by them, ditto the GMC and various other professional regulatory bodes. Moreover, I have a son, now an adult, who had a full Statement of Special Educational Needs whose education and life was utterly blighted by our then local authority which used every cynical, dishonest and dissembling trick in the book to long it out, so the assessment process which should have taken about 4 months, took almost 3 years, during which time he was effectively unteachable. He never managed to make up that lost time, so even though he was assessed as being in the top 10% in terms of cognitive ability and he loved learning, he was always way behind his peers; as a result, he ended up in a special school in his mid teens and didn't take any GCSEs. The smug, condescending attitude and the lies and gaslighting we had to put up with from the so-called public servants at the council was salt in the wound and frankly, I consider them to be scum. If we ever had something akin to The Purge, they would be top of my list. One of the reasons I despise mental health malingerers, especially those who claim to be autistic or ADHD, is precisely because I have seen what havoc those conditions wreak when they're genuinely present and not merely adopted in order to claim victimhood, or to appear quirky and interesting, or to excuse bad behaviour (I'm looking at you, Gregg Wallace) or to leech parasitically off the public purse. Based on extensive first hand experience, my assessment of the personnel employed by public and quasi public bodies is overwhelmingly negative. To a man and woman, with a few notable exceptions that I can count on one hand, I have found them to be incompetent arrogant bullies and petty little jobsworths.. There are very good reasons they put up with the poor salaries, namely they know they would not last 5 minutes in the private sector, they are virtually unsackable and the amount of public money they piss up the wall because they are too thick or too cowardly to make correct decisions is absolutely obscene, for which they appear to suffer no adverse consequences. Bestowing a modicum of power on mediocrities almost always leads to it being wielded capriciously, callously and carelessly. So, respectfully, I disagree. Edit: TBay appears to have blocked me, the big baby.
What I also found astonishing was that there appeared to be absolutely no checks on what he was actually doing from any of his line managers. Wherever I've worked there's always being some form of verbal progress reporting (informally or not), whether in teams or individually - how's the work going?, what are you planning on doing next week?, will you be done by Friday? etc etc. What ever happened to contrition & apology...
