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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.
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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.
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hey guys, dont drop in often at all anymore but still read the forums every now and then. hope everyone is well. just dropped by this weekend to wish a certain old codger a very happy birthday! good to see this thread still going!
Told you earlier .... :¬(
You do have to wonder where 'councils' find their staff! :¬(
Nearly EVERY time I've had to contact my council the experience has been bad!
Surely council workers are just normal people that like things to work etc. in their own lives?! But it seems that all common sense is removed when they enter the council building!
There's definitely something wrong with the way UK councils work, operate and reward! (Top earners salary is a joke)
/rant
EDIT: Forgot to say when I logged in I received a screen saying:
"An error has occurred... Our engineers have been made aware etc. etc."
I thought I had failed to login - but here I am :¬P
Nearly EVERY time I've had to contact my council the experience has been bad!
Surely council workers are just normal people that like things to work etc. in their own lives?! But it seems that all common sense is removed when they enter the council building!
There's definitely something wrong with the way UK councils work, operate and reward! (Top earners salary is a joke)
/rant
[s]Hmmm...[/s]EDIT: Forgot to say when I logged in I received a screen saying:
"An error has occurred... Our engineers have been made aware etc. etc."
I thought I had failed to login - but here I am :¬P
pete_21 wrote:
I pointed out that I pay them £140 a month for this service and if any garbage ends up in my car then the only place I will be delivering it to is the foyer of their town hall!
Morning pete, ha ha give us a shout and I'll come and help you!
Mind you council services do vary tremendously across the country (don't see why they do, but they do). Mother-in-law lives in Sheffield and their 'recycling service' only offers 5% of what I can put in our recycling bin - virtually everything goes for recycling, our black bin is hardly used these days! (Sheffield also had this strike all sorted weeks ago - a bit militant?) :¬)
I pointed out that I pay them £140 a month for this service and if any garbage ends up in my car then the only place I will be delivering it to is the foyer of their town hall!
Morning pete, ha ha give us a shout and I'll come and help you!
Mind you council services do vary tremendously across the country (don't see why they do, but they do). Mother-in-law lives in Sheffield and their 'recycling service' only offers 5% of what I can put in our recycling bin - virtually everything goes for recycling, our black bin is hardly used these days! (Sheffield also had this strike all sorted weeks ago - a bit militant?) :¬)
@DL Yeah, it must be a northern thing as most people I know feel this way, are we a bunch of harsh, uncaring b******s?, no just realists. Over the last couple of years I have found myself working harder and longer hours for less money but I accept that it's a sign of the times. For a section of the working population to think that they can strike their way to imunity from this seems unrealistic in my eyes. Like yourself I have friends who have/are in the process of being made redundant, you can guess how much sympathy they have for this action. My Mrs. had to take the day off work (unpaid as she had no holidays left) to look after our daughter only to bump into one of her teachers Christmas shopping. As for our bin situation, why make us wait another week?, in any other event (Bank Holiday etc.) it would mean we would be put back a day. Our council are refusing to empty any waste bins due for collection that day. When I called them up and told them I was concerned that the festering rubbish I now have in my garage may attract vermin into my house I was advised to take it to the local civil amenties depot. I pointed out that I pay them £140 a month for this service and if any garbage ends up in my car then the only place I will be delivering it to is the foyer of their town hall!
@Chris, Agree the makers of The One Show knew what they were getting when they booked JC. Suppose they thought if he unsurprisingly said something outrageous on live TV then it would be good for the ratings? It's the same thing when Ricky Gervais hosted The Golden Globes, had the organisers never seen his work before? The most ridiculous example I can think of was Johnny Rotten swearing on the celebrity in the jungle thing a few years ago, some people seemed genuinely shocked? :S
@Chris, Agree the makers of The One Show knew what they were getting when they booked JC. Suppose they thought if he unsurprisingly said something outrageous on live TV then it would be good for the ratings? It's the same thing when Ricky Gervais hosted The Golden Globes, had the organisers never seen his work before? The most ridiculous example I can think of was Johnny Rotten swearing on the celebrity in the jungle thing a few years ago, some people seemed genuinely shocked? :S
What did the fantastic producers of the One Show expect? I think Jeremy Clarkson is an idiotic prat but he still appears on TV for the BBC every week. I blame the One Show personally, it was a sad attempt to boost ratings knowing Clarkson would be controversial like he has been for his whole career. I'm not saying Clarkson was ok to say what he did, but that the One Show played a larger part than the story-hungry media portrayed. Remember, this is the same awful show who took months to realise that Adrian Chiles 'wasn't helping viewing figures'.
pb wrote:
I'm tempted to go back to teaching, we don't get anything like that and we're lucky if we get a pension that can support us.
I finished teaching January 1997 and even then, the then Government stated that future pension rights/rates wouldn't be anything like that earlier promised and did try to do something about it ... but it eventually fell by the way :¬(
Unless you can afford a Private Pension these days then you are 'shafted' for your future!
I'm tempted to go back to teaching, we don't get anything like that and we're lucky if we get a pension that can support us.
I finished teaching January 1997 and even then, the then Government stated that future pension rights/rates wouldn't be anything like that earlier promised and did try to do something about it ... but it eventually fell by the way :¬(
Unless you can afford a Private Pension these days then you are 'shafted' for your future!
Thanks pete for the support :¬)
Think it must be a 'northern thing', you know 'sticking together':¬) As for your refuse, that wouldn't happen here...it would be collected the next day, strike or no strike! (Many, many years ago I worked for the local council - bins and in the office, and we never supported a national strike!)
Now, mother-in-law lives in Sheffield and after reading the local papers, they've been planning action for months!! All depends where you live and I suppose, what you're like. Glad we're of the same opinion though :¬)
Think it must be a 'northern thing', you know 'sticking together':¬) As for your refuse, that wouldn't happen here...it would be collected the next day, strike or no strike! (Many, many years ago I worked for the local council - bins and in the office, and we never supported a national strike!)
Now, mother-in-law lives in Sheffield and after reading the local papers, they've been planning action for months!! All depends where you live and I suppose, what you're like. Glad we're of the same opinion though :¬)
I'm with Pete on this for the most part, but I think it's least fair for some of the workers.
However, seeing the offer of % for pay rises in the deal that was turned down, I'm tempted to go back to teaching, we don't get anything like that and we're lucky if we get a pension that can support us.
Worse than the strikers, though, is those damn people in tents complaining about the money makers. Why do they think they'll get anyone to listen when camped out? Why don't they just become politicians or someone in some sort of authority if they want to change things?
However, seeing the offer of % for pay rises in the deal that was turned down, I'm tempted to go back to teaching, we don't get anything like that and we're lucky if we get a pension that can support us.
Worse than the strikers, though, is those damn people in tents complaining about the money makers. Why do they think they'll get anyone to listen when camped out? Why don't they just become politicians or someone in some sort of authority if they want to change things?
Hi DL,
Yeah agree the Clarkson thing is the usual storm in a teacup that the British press seem rather good at brewing up. Clarkson was just being Clarkson, not really a bloke known for being Mr. PC is he? As for the strike, I work long hours but cannot currently afford a pension myself yet I still have to pay £140 a month council tax due to area which I live in. Our waste bin will not have been emptied for 3 weeks due to this strike as our collection day fell on Wednesday and the council will not send anyone out to empty it. I now have additional bagged rubbish festering in my garage (which is attached to my house). They can sack the lot of them and get the Poles in for all I care, in this current economic climate they should be grateful that they have got jobs at all.
Yeah agree the Clarkson thing is the usual storm in a teacup that the British press seem rather good at brewing up. Clarkson was just being Clarkson, not really a bloke known for being Mr. PC is he? As for the strike, I work long hours but cannot currently afford a pension myself yet I still have to pay £140 a month council tax due to area which I live in. Our waste bin will not have been emptied for 3 weeks due to this strike as our collection day fell on Wednesday and the council will not send anyone out to empty it. I now have additional bagged rubbish festering in my garage (which is attached to my house). They can sack the lot of them and get the Poles in for all I care, in this current economic climate they should be grateful that they have got jobs at all.
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