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Evo1883

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  • Sep 7, 2021
  • #9,731
skybluesam66 said:
Why are children over say 8 being taken to school? Aren’t they capable of getting there themselves
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Does it matter ?
 

Ian1779

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  • Sep 7, 2021
  • #9,732
skybluesam66 said:
Why are children over say 8 being taken to school? Aren’t they capable of getting there themselves
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Would you trust an 8 year old to negotiate a main road, the way that some people drive these days?
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Sep 7, 2021
  • #9,733
Ian1779 said:
Would you trust an 8 year old to negotiate a main road, the way that some people drive these days?
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tbf, half of them are rushing to get their children to school before going on to work
 

hill83

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  • Sep 7, 2021
  • #9,734
Marty said:
Clearly not on it's knee's, Got one on here rejoicing about his half days and how short his days are.
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I mean, I don’t necessarily agree with what you are saying but he was swanning about giving it loads about finishing early and how easy it was the other day. And I’ve had nothing but grief for the last 6 months on my street. So I’ll admit it got my back up a bit as well.

I’d even go as far as saying nothing but grief for the last ten years. The most stressful day of the week, the 2 week collection maggot creating set of bastards.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 7, 2021
  • #9,735
Fucking midge bites. Went to the park last night for the military fitness class, didn't have any deet spray. Absolutely covered in bites today, itching like fuck.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,736
My blue top bin hasn't been collected for about 2 months, given up recycling now.

I've had wheelie bin maggots a few times with food waste and missed collections.
 

cowboy1850

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,737
Bin workers are decent people. It's the management at the top that keeps making cuts and demands, and yet management's pay and bonuses never get any cuts.....

On the subject of robbing a living I know people in the NHS that earn £50k a year and do very little. If public money is going to be wasted so easily the least you can do is make sure that some of the top layer of management are earning some of their ticket to an easy lifestyle.
 

cowboy1850

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,738
Academy directors in the school system are another bunch who are fiddling public money for their own gain.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,739
fernandopartridge said:
Fucking midge bites. Went to the park last night for the military fitness class, didn't have any deet spray. Absolutely covered in bites today, itching like fuck.
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Apparently the SAS use this:

A £2.25 moisturiser that doubles up as an insect repellent is the Royal Marines' secret weapon

Could it be the answer to our holiday woes?
www.independent.co.uk
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,740
fernandopartridge said:
If you live a 10 minute walk from school the difference will be negligible
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The difference will be twenty minutes. You and my boss have different definitions of negligible.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,741
Nick said:
Surely a teacher has to be on time for lessons?
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Timetabling is a fucking nightmare TBF. It’s easy enough to say “oh don’t book them in for P1” but in reality it’s another spanner into a set of works made mostly of spanners.
 
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skybluesam66

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,742
cowboy1850 said:
Bin workers are decent people. It's the management at the top that keeps making cuts and demands, and yet management's pay and bonuses never get any cuts.....

On the subject of robbing a living I know people in the NHS that earn £50k a year and do very little. If public money is going to be wasted so easily the least you can do is make sure that some of the top layer of management are earning some of their ticket to an easy lifestyle.
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To nhs you can add a lot of the public sector
Time in lieu, pension schemes that don’t exist anywhere else, top of the range phones.laptops etc. And gross inefficiency
This is not the average worker’s fault but those at the very top who are scared of doing anything except arguing that more money is needed.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,743
skybluesam66 said:
To nhs you can add a lot of the public sector
Time in lieu, pension schemes that don’t exist anywhere else, top of the range phones.laptops etc. And gross inefficiency
This is not the average worker’s fault but those at the very top who are scared of doing anything except arguing that more money is needed.
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With the prospect of a Conservative government for decades it’s inevitable that eventually it’ll end up completely privatised, IMO.
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,744
skybluesam66 said:
To nhs you can add a lot of the public sector
Time in lieu, pension schemes that don’t exist anywhere else, top of the range phones.laptops etc. And gross inefficiency
This is not the average worker’s fault but those at the very top who are scared of doing anything except arguing that more money is needed.
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Only place I’ve seen most of those things is private sector. Every public sector org I’ve seen is significantly more efficient for a start.

I’d give you the pensions but nothings stopping you from collectivising and negotiating benefits in your industry. The answer is to demand better yourself not try and drag everyone down because you got a shit deal.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,745
shmmeee said:
Only place I’ve seen most of those things is private sector. Every public sector org I’ve seen is significantly more efficient for a start.

I’d give you the pensions but nothings stopping you from collectivising and negotiating benefits in your industry. The answer is to demand better yourself not try and drag everyone down because you got a shit deal.
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It depends on the company.

I had one job which would count as public and they acted like money grew on trees.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,746
Again, Doctors.

Can't book an appointment in advance so have to ring up.

Been on hold 10 minutes and I am still 12 in the queue, this is just to see if I can make an appointment. They might be all gone.
 
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Marty

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,747
Nick said:
Again, Doctors.

Can't book an appointment in advance so have to ring up.

Been on hold 10 minutes and I am still 12 in the queue, this is just to see if I can make an appointment. They might be all gone.
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GPs are just a bunch of cowards hiding behind their phones.
 
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Nick

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,748
Marty said:
GPs are just a bunch of cowards hiding behind their phones.
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30 minutes on hold now, just to see if there's any appointments.
 

Marty

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,749
Nick said:
30 minutes on hold now, just to see if there's any appointments.
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You may as well hang up, you'll only be given the wrong diagnosis.
 
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skybluesam66

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,750
shmmeee said:
Only place I’ve seen most of those things is private sector. Every public sector org I’ve seen is significantly more efficient for a start.

I’d give you the pensions but nothings stopping you from collectivising and negotiating benefits in your industry. The answer is to demand better yourself not try and drag everyone down because you got a shit deal.
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mmm! difference is shareholders versus accountability . take NHS which is only just about coming into collective buying - They are only just about sorting their procurement side out now, and there are still so many of the wasteful contracts/agreements
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,751
34 minutes later, a phone call that lasted less than a minute.

"You will get a call this afternoon at some point"

Pretty sure I could have just filled out a web form and saved half an hour.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,752
shmmeee said:
The difference will be twenty minutes. You and my boss have different definitions of negligible.
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It'll be 20 minutes minus the usual journey time from home to school, minus the time spent sitting in the additional traffic if commuting during the school run.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,753
skybluesam66 said:
mmm! difference is shareholders versus accountability . take NHS which is only just about coming into collective buying - They are only just about sorting their procurement side out now, and there are still so many of the wasteful contracts/agreements
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Yep, when I worked in the "public" side. They would literally spunk money away on things that were costing 4 or 5 times as much as they should.

"ohhh budget cuts, we can't do this"
"let's spend £7 on every ream of a4 paper"
 
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Nick

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,754
fernandopartridge said:
It'll be 20 minutes minus the usual journey time from home to school, minus the time spent sitting in the additional traffic if commuting during the school run.
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The traffic doesn't just vanish within 10 minutes... You wouldn't get home from walking to the school and then be presented with clear roads.
 

hill83

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,755
Home to the school and back in is 26 minutes walking (except it's about 20 minutes there walking with a child on a quick day)
Home to work is 25 minutes

Total: 51 minutes (or 58 minutes with added child distraction pace)

Home to school in 4 minutes driving.
School to work is 23

Total: 27 minutes


Time spent pissing around on this topic, 1 hour and 34 minutes.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,756
fernandopartridge said:
It'll be 20 minutes minus the usual journey time from home to school, minus the time spent sitting in the additional traffic if commuting during the school run.
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OK I’ll give you my example. I live a 15-20 min walk from school (possibly more with six year old speed). The drive takes 5 mins and is on the way to work.

Walking: 15 there + 15 back + 5 driving to get to the school on my way back

Driving: 5 driving to the school.

There is no time saved by traffic with a 15 min difference, traffic is bad over half an hour after I drop my daughter off anyway.

So I lose fifteen minutes of prep time and the fifteen minutes walk back when I’m already coming in later than my boss would like.
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,757
skybluesam66 said:
take NHS which is only just about coming into collective buying - They are only just about sorting their procurement side out now, and there are still so many of the wasteful contracts/agreements
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I very occassionally quote end-users within the NHS to supply spare parts on lab instruments that are out of warranty/contract.......more often than not, I then re-quote the same part & price to a procurement company who purchase it on the NHS behalf.....

...all they actually do is add about a 3 week delay, an additional layer of admin & anywhere between 50% - 100% mark-up.
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,758
jimmyhillsfanclub said:
I very occassionally quote end-users within the NHS to supply spare parts on lab instruments that are out of warranty/contract.......more often than not, I then re-quote the same part & price to a procurement company who purchase it on the NHS behalf.....

...all they actually do is add about a 3 week delay, an additional layer of admin & anywhere between 50% - 100% mark-up.
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This is a problem with privatisation and private companies inserting themselves into a process they’re not needed for, not public sector waste.

When a school I was at academised we got given “approved suppliers” (mates of the sponsor) we had to go through, we got in “private catering” (the same staff on new shitter contracts) both increased cost and reduced quality compared to what we had previously.

If the ideologues butted out there’s no logical reason public sector shouldn’t be able to drive costs lower than private.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,759
jimmyhillsfanclub said:
I very occassionally quote end-users within the NHS to supply spare parts on lab instruments that are out of warranty/contract.......more often than not, I then re-quote the same part & price to a procurement company who purchase it on the NHS behalf.....

...all they actually do is add about a 3 week delay, an additional layer of admin & anywhere between 50% - 100% mark-up.
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Is that Supply Chain or one of the Category Tower entities ?
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,760
skybluesam66 said:
mmm! difference is shareholders versus accountability . take NHS which is only just about coming into collective buying - They are only just about sorting their procurement side out now, and there are still so many of the wasteful contracts/agreements
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What are you talking about? the NHS has had numerous bodies in place to buy ' collectively' for years but the facts are that the NHS is not one homogenous organisation.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,761
shmmeee said:
OK I’ll give you my example. I live a 15-20 min walk from school (possibly more with six year old speed). The drive takes 5 mins and is on the way to work.

Walking: 15 there + 15 back + 5 driving to get to the school on my way back

Driving: 5 driving to the school.

There is no time saved by traffic with a 15 min difference, traffic is bad over half an hour after I drop my daughter off anyway.

So I lose fifteen minutes of prep time and the fifteen minutes walk back when I’m already coming in later than my boss would like.
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You and Nick are just lazy bastards inventing excuses for driving your kids to school
 
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Evo1883

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,762
I drive my daughter to school if I'm off work .

Takes about 8 minutes to walk , but I save a whole 6 minutes each way driving .. massively lazy bastard but I don't care
 

chiefdave

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,763
Fucking work - again.

Someone makes changes at 8:30am this morning. Customer then calls up to say everything stopped working at 8:30am this morning,

Call gets assigned to me instead of person who made the changes. Person who made the changes then claims this is completely unrelated and therefore isn't going to help as its nothing to do with them. 3 hours of pissing about trying to work out what has happened as nothing has been documented and surprisingly enough it was the change made this morning.

This happens on a regular basis.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,764
Evo1883 said:
I drive my daughter to school if I'm off work .

Takes about 8 minutes to walk , but I save a whole 6 minutes each way driving .. massively lazy bastard but I don't care
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Must be a bit awkward taking her in the bin lorry though mate
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • #9,765
chiefdave said:
Fucking work - again.

Someone makes changes at 8:30am this morning. Customer then calls up to say everything stopped working at 8:30am this morning,

Call gets assigned to me instead of person who made the changes. Person who made the changes then claims this is completely unrelated and therefore isn't going to help as its nothing to do with them. 3 hours of pissing about trying to work out what has happened as nothing has been documented and surprisingly enough it was the change made this morning.

This happens on a regular basis.
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I'd just assign it to the person who made the change and tell them to deal with it.

Surely the first thing to try is reverse what they did? If they didn't document what they did, it's their problem.
 
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