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AIBU?

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to think all public sector workers

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ChuffinAda · 17/05/2015 13:29

Should be chained to the job, not allowed time off for personal reasons and should pay us, the tax payers, for the privilege? That they should not be permitted lunch breaks and shouldn't be able to claim expenses?

Or am I being ever so slightly maybe possibly unreasonable in my expectation that they are robots?

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PacificDogwood · 17/05/2015 13:45

Oh, you're not one of those overpaid nurses, are you, Rara?
Them and nursery staff should be made to jump first.

I thought this would be cathartic, but it is just upsetting

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ChuffinAda · 17/05/2015 13:47

It just shows how little we value our public sector (even though my phone tried to change that to pubic lice for some reason ) that we can joke in these terms because it's not far off what's expected.

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HarveySchlumpfenburger · 17/05/2015 13:48

Very long chains, fairy? There's potential for that to go wrong though, could get messy.

No, not a nurse. They don't let me near patients.

MetallicBeige · 17/05/2015 13:49

I got a warm glow every time I heard "I pay your wages" it was always the delightful specimens who told me so, usually as I was getting them a drink (not quick enough), or wiping their arse (not using Charmin), or y'know doing chest compressions on Reg and able bodied said delightful specimen wanted me to hand him his TV remote. (That actually happened, he complained we didn't answer his buzzer quickly enough, never mind the resuscitation kerfuffle happening in the opposite bed, he wanted to switch to Bargain Hunt.
There's lots of them out there.

PacificDogwood · 17/05/2015 13:50

Oh, ok, you cannot be first to jump then, Rafa.

I am not a public sector worker but a child of one, and I hate what's happening in this country.

zeezeek · 17/05/2015 13:50

What's depressing is that some people (along with the government and the right wing press) seem to believe that this actually should be the case.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 17/05/2015 13:53

Metallic, are you my sister?

One of her patients officially complained about her not getting him a drink quick enough when he buzzed. She was resuscitating the patient in the next bed.

Gralick · 17/05/2015 13:59

OMG, Metallic and Rafa.

Country's gone to the dogs. If we had a UKIP government, they'd make all those blasted immigrants be personal slaves to 5th-generation Brits. Even the ones who are actual nurses & doctors.

KillmeNow · 17/05/2015 14:05

I am effectively chained to my desk. I wear a headset and it should always be on my head except for permitted breaks. The headset is attached to the phone so therefore I am chained to the desk.

Scheduled breaks should be exactly 15 minutes.Unscheduled breaks can be no more than 5 minutes and there will be an enquiry if they are longer.

I have to allow people to scream and shout at me and Im not allowed to put the phone down on them until I have warned them 3 times not to abuse me. If I do not do this I will be disciplined .They of course will have no sanction on them.

If I am disciplined it will go my record and will affect my pay.There is no progression and no training .We have been told that if we are unhappy we know where the door is.

I wish I had something to laugh about at work.

limitedperiodonly · 17/05/2015 14:06

We could have a selection process where all public sector workers had to run up naked towards a table of doctors who aren't really doctors and perform a series of humiliating physical jerks for their amusement before being sent to the left or to the right.

The pretend doctors would work for a company called something like FATUOUS that's won a government contract through friends of friends.

They'd have no medical qualification except a white coat that they would have to pay back for by instalments. They would be happy to do this because it would mark them out as strivers, not skivers.

In fact I think that logo could be embroidered on the breast pocket of the coat of the most zealous pretend doctors. Cost to be deducted, of course.

Their training would involve an intensive course of back-to-back viewings of the Boys From Brazil and Schindler's List but with all the namby-pamby handwringing liberal bits cut out.

Those public sector workers who were simply useless - I hear that's 99 per cent of them - would be ground up for fertiliser or high-protein pills to feed the other one per cent or the commandant's Great Danes.

CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 17/05/2015 14:10

The problem with your proposal is that it assumes that public sector workers have their own desks - rather than only having 7 for every 10 workers, as is standard in most public sector offices now...

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 17/05/2015 14:17

Surely 5 is the maximum number of desks you need for 10 workers. 7 seems like an unnecessary expense.

MetallicBeige · 17/05/2015 14:25

Rafa no nursing siblings, but your sister's experience sounds all too familiar. People are that fecking selfish and, well, horrible. Ahhh the Great British Public

Disclaimer: most people are lovely, and a pleasure to nurse, we always account for people feeling frightened and out of control and their behaviour being a reaction to that.
Unfortunately there are a fair few not so nice one's about - one actually said to me as she lay in her bed "I like to see you run". I was shattered, had spent the shift tending to her many needs (plump my pillows, pass me my magazine, I don't like the blinds open, I don't like the blinds shut etc etc.) as well as care for the acutely ill people around her.
I left ward work as it was horrendous and management poor. Kudos to those still at the real coal face, it's bloody hard work.

But, yes, take away my pension, I'll keel over before I get to claim it anyway.

Gralick · 17/05/2015 14:32

That's genius, limited. Are you the Minister For Caring Deeply About Hard-Working People, by any chance?

lunar1 · 17/05/2015 14:41

Public escort workers should be flogged before the start of each working day for the transgressions they are bound to deliberately commit.

My uniform may have been dripping with blood from the patient I saved who was clinging to life by a thread, but of course it's fine for you to put in a formal complaint about me because I wanted to change before making you a drink. Obviously I am a bitch that wants you to die of dehydration.

ProudAS · 17/05/2015 15:00

I work in local government and my colleagues and I don't give a shit about services.

We couldn't give a stuff about roads or public transport because we ride everywhere on government issued flying pigs.

We don't care about childcare or education because our DCs are born educated to degree level and fully able to look after themselves.

SwedishEdith · 17/05/2015 15:18

That awful Sun "journalist", Jane Moore, did actually say on Question Time that public sector workers don't need new chairs. Seems entirely reasonable to me.

Staywithme · 17/05/2015 15:25

Public escort workers

I knew I was in the wrong line of work.

At least the pay would be better.

limitedperiodonly · 17/05/2015 15:31

Not as yet Gralick but I am waiting for my call.

TenerifeSea · 17/05/2015 15:32

It would be funny if it wasn't true!

I got told by a client that it was unacceptable I am going on leave for a week. Apparently, public sector workers should not be entitled to holidays. I wouldn't mind but we had already agreed that my very experienced, very competent manager would pick up the work in my absence. I told him that he was getting the manager as his worker, therefore, it was better than me but he still huffed. While I was on leave, he phoned my manager's manager and had a 30 minute rant about me being on holiday which made me giggle.

Fatmomma99 · 17/05/2015 15:33

I totally agree with the above posts. They're all lefty cunts as well.

And no one's mentioned rules-obsessed, job mongers, time wasters, waste-of-space, health and safety obsessed killjoys.

Hanging's too good for the lot of them.

ninilegsintheair · 17/05/2015 15:41

This thread has made me smile far more than my public sector job has done in years.

As for chaining staff to their desks, surely it would be more cost effective for the taxpayer to have all the staff who share the same desk (5 staff per desk where I am) to be sown mouth to arse in the fashion of a human caterpillar. Hopefully maybe one of them will be a half-decent employee and their poo can influence the rest of the chain.

Unescorted · 17/05/2015 15:43

The 7 desks to 10 workers .... for the 30% of your workforce wandering around the office because they can't find a desk. Their pay should be docked because they didn't get in early enough to find one.

lithewire · 17/05/2015 15:56

My colleague was told off by our manager for having a brief work-related chat in the corridor the other day. How dare we take 5 minute tea breaks on the taxpayers' time?!

Fairy13 · 17/05/2015 15:58

I pay £8 per day to park. I would get the train in to save money but I'm an essential car user so required in my contract to drive to work.
All the managers who don't leave the office and so could get the train have parking under the building, of course. Oh, and that woman who comes in twice per month.

I once agreed to do an assessment that SWs are now allowed to do but is usually psychiatrists job and they get paid for it. I went out, did it, despite my colleagues telling to say no, because I wanted to save the client the money.
I was hospitalised that afternoon so it never made it to the computer. I was in for 6 weeks, in intensive care, nearly died.
Client complained!

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