to think all public sector workers

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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?

Women who work in the public sector should be sterilised on appointment, how dare they use public money for maternity leave just to sit on the sofa all day watching Jeremy Kyle

TenerifeSea I can sympathise... we recently got a new manager who has set out her stall by saying she will not allow 2 members of the same team to be off at the same time, regardless of whether the team have discussed and agreed it amongst themselves (which is how we used to do it). Only problem is, two of us are engaged to each other. So I guess we won't be going on honeymoon until one of us has got a new job

Piper - they should just be taken out and shot. Female public sector workers, everyone knows that women shouldn't be taking hard working men's jobs (unless it is something that they wouldn't want to do and only if they are paid a very low wage or doing it on a voluntary basis). They should be chained to the sink, never mind the desk.

I have to pay my public sector bosses for the privilege of working for them.

When they pass by in their black limousine, we have to stand up, drop our pickaxes, remove our caps and lower our eyes in a silent gesture of subservience.

I am happy to do so, as I value my job and am grateful for the occasional baskets of kitchen scraps and bundles of kindling that they bestow upon us all. They even pay for the jute sackcloth that we fashion into rudimentary garments to conceal our nudity.

I have been told by members of the public on more than one occasion that we should not be allowed to have any breaks between 9 and 5.

Also that in working for a council that we get free or discounted council tax (I wish).

My personal fave is "I pay your wages" when they don't pay council tax and I literally pay more of my wages than they do. Actually that one is hysterically funny (not many laughs at work).

Ah, the " I pay your wages " brigade . On my last day , I have my response ready .

" The amount you pay, you have approximately 2.46 minutes of my time this year. Talk fast. "

Some of my colleagues have had their computers removed from their stations , and given mini laptops instead , so that they stay out on the community whilst doing all their reports . Except that there is never a 3g signal where they work out in the sticks , so they cant upload any of their paperwork . The management response ? To tell them to sit in costa coffee and use their WiFi. And forking out at least £6 a day on coffee out of their own pocket , because you cant sit in there for free .

Here we go again. Then empty your own effing bins, police dodgy shopkeepers, run your own elections, sweep your own town centres and process your own library books. Or,alternatively, pish off to your local coven meeting and be perfect, entitled and spiteful together. Love from an ex local government employee. X.

I've never worked in the public sector and now never will, seeing as it's rapidly vanishing.

I'm one of those deviant private sector workers who think the public sector is generally A GOOD THING.

They're gunning for traitors like me after you lot.

At least in Costa they dont have to pay their own chiropractic fees from trying to type on a stupidly small laptop in the car.

I've looked for a flip flops thread but can't see it.

It's cunningly disguised as a thread about Mallorca, AmI.

Isn't the penalty for that sort of treachery making you come and work with us, limited?

Ugh at Agile Working

Back in the day it was Hotdesking

Horrible management-speak, innit

Thanks Rafa. What a nasty thread title.

Teachers are the worst thing 11 weeks holiday and then deem to close for 5 training day. They should open the schoolin the 11 weeks as childcare with the teachers provide the chil care

Oh man, I'm a nhs nurse and I took a full 30 minute lunch break at the end of April AND I left on time that day. I'm still burning with shame.

I've proposed that all nursing staff who work in areas where transfusion of blood products is the norm, actually donate their own plasma, RBC, platelets etc straight to their needing patient.

Feckless, lazy, good for nothing idiots...

I'm a public sector worker and that sounds about right. I'm chained to my desk by a headset, half hour lunch break, get in trouble for going to the toilet and then yelled at and threatened by the public. Oh and smiling/ laughing at work is forbidden.

What is this lunch break?

I had my desk taken off me recently and my computer. I'm not even allowed to hot desk. I spend my desk job life running from one ward to another trying to use the computers when free while pissed off nurses ask me if ive finished so they can look at blood results or do discharges.

Productivity has nose dived by about 80% but hey, it's probably saved the trust £500 a year!

Where's the Mallorca thread?

I am also a lazy public sector worker.

I do wish we had hot desks!
Five of us are currently using two desks (three chairs) in a stock cupboard... A fecking stock cupboard. We feel so loved in our team, should be thankful we have a job!

We hot desk too. There are 12 of them...for 40 staff. Some bright spark in management decided a 2:7 ratio was about right which means I usually spend my non face to face time doing my admin in a car park. Not works car park though, because the very same bright sparks decided that, even though we're all essential car users, we could only have 17 spaces to encourage 'green thinking'.

Another lazy public sector worker here too, and one on maternity leave! When I go back to work I can look forward to computers which don't work, offices which are not cleaned, toilets that don't flush, phones which cut out and members of the public screaming at me that I'm biased/over paid/lucky to have a job/I'm only there cos I pay your wages. I very much look forward to the meetings with private sector consultants who are less experienced and less qualified sitting there in their plush suits looking smug as they get paid twice what I do. And no, these particular ones do not get less holiday or worse pensions, they just sold out to the dark side - there to screw your community over for profit for their shareholders.

Ps I contribute to my pension too.

I once worked in a former blacksmiths stable. Ok it was converted for the Council to use, but it had no heating. It might as well still had the horse in there it was that freezing.

When I was doing my MSc so I can actually be fully qualified to do my job, I think I was away for the module on 'being a public sector worker'.

I am a public sector worker. I get a taxi between work places, paid for by the taxpayer. Love it.

Yes public sector workers are scum. Get rid of the lot of them I say. including MPs