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?

We have 6 desks per 10 workers. Or we did, till they all got made redundant and now we've got desks to spare. So we're not hunting for a desk but we're almost cracking under the pressure.

Still, I'm so feckless I was still working at 11pm on Thursday. Having started at 8.30am. I work in local government. We're all lazy.

Still worth it for the shit gold plated pension.

Littlecaf, I'm still slightly open-mouthed from the thread last week where a poster suggested that they should not heat all areas of hospitals that aren't wards to save money. At least all the hotdesking would keep us warm I suppose.

I've worked in two areas of the public sector. Two! Not only am I a feckless wastrel, I have also taken up two whole jobs that could have instead been done by decent, hardworking taxpayers.

In my most recent rile my "office" was a store cupboard. In that store cupboard a fitter had installed a bench right the way around the room, very similar to a kitchen worktop. On the bench were placed no less than six computers. We were quite literally packed in and sitting side by side, overenthusiastic use of ones mouse would cause you to elbow the person next to you and if you wanted to roll your chair away from the "desk", everyone had to move into the corner to make space. We had files stacked everywhere, it was like one of those hoarder programs with piles of newspapers on the floor and a maze - like passage winding between them, only we had box files stacked everywhere and no filing cabinet. One day a chair broke and wasn't replaced so we used to take it in turns to sit on a 'dalek' style step stool instead. It meant you had to lift your hands to roughly shoulder height in order to type on your keyboard. We had to collect box files from the records department and transport them back to our cupboard office and take files from the cupboardoffice back to records but our pushcarts got taken away (I presume they were incinerated to provide heat for the directors office) so someone managed to get some old supermarket trolleys to use instead.

I am a public sector parasite and I got told off for talking to a member of the public for too long and for being on my phone in public. Except she was a drunk scared lost 18 year old who had lost her phone and I was using my own mobile and my own minutes to call her friends then parents then a taxi company so that she didn't have to spend the rest of the night wandering through unlit London side streets. What a waste of space I am.

As a public sector worker I should quite like to be chained to my desk, in fact if I had one I would chain myself to it so no one else could nick it! I've been trying to persuade my employer I need a desk for the last three years. Turns out when they advertise a post they don't bother to check if they have somewhere for that person to work when they get the job.

I really enjoy especially being ranted at by Home Office caseworkers and solicitors.

Rafals..... It was the only time I thought I might exercise my right as a union member (whom has paid subs for over ten years) and complain as it took them a week to sort it out. It was snowing too!

Bloody luxury!!

I'm certain the poster in question would have complained if their boss decided not to heat their building over winter. I'm going to be charitable and assume the poster in question hadn't realised there are huge areas of a hospital with staff keeping the place running that would appreciate heating, rather than she thought that because we were public sector we should go without.

Loling at the hot desking ratios then everyone got made redundant. Same as at my office. Bursting at the seams before my maternity leave then like a ghost town after the 'restructure'.

Been regraded twice in three years despite doubling my remit and renaming my post to the one above I came out the one below. Great. So after the pay protection ends I'll be doing more work, at a more senior level, with three years more experience for less money. Bloody public sector workers.

I've been bleeding hard working tax payers dry for 20 years whilst I've been nursing.

I am an utter arsehole.

Someone made the gold-plated pensions remark to me once. I restrained myself (as he was a customer) from replying that gold-plated shit is still shit, but did manage to get the gist of it over. Mind you this was a few years ago when a public sector pension was almost worth waiting for.

One colleague was told categorically by her housemate that civil servants don't pay taxes. In vain did she protest that her pay slip clearly indicated deductions for tax and NI. When you know something, you know it.

I've just realised, as I am not a public service worker (although closely allied with many), I actually pay you ALL. I don't think I've been getting my money's worth.

I used to work in the public sector. The expenses were a definite perk of the job. If I had to get lunch, I used to choose whether to eat or drink at that meal. Both was often not an option. I also enjoyed being given 25 percent of my boss's job to do as well as my own. There was some surprise that I asked for more money as they assumed I would simply like to do it for my own benefit. However my argument won out and I was given a bonus of I think £500 for the year. I felt so sorry for my boss after that - clearly she wasn't even paid a living wage.

Expenses? Pah.

I don't claim for petrol anymore when I have to visit a further away site once a month. Costs me about £10 each trip and entitled to.....but I now have to insure my car for business purposes and provide proof. Never get round to doing it, plus Id have more expensive insurance. So not really worth it.

I am a public sector worker- I hot desk by swapping chairs in the living room when I work at home most evenings. I'd like to hot desk at work but, as I squeeze 36 'clients' into my room every day, I don't have a spare desk to use.

My perks are mainly the increased opportunities to catch nits or threadworms. Can I claim Ovrex on expenses?

I waste taxpayers money by being paid to be away from my main place of work to support families. I also get a free holiday every year when I take the same 36 'clients' away for 3 days. Clearly this is actually a spa day for me and the 55 hour shift I effectively do is a doddle.

Hand me the whip- I'd hate to waste anyone's time by making them lash me- I'll save them the bother by doing myself.

I'm a public sector employee - and my job is easy - I just have to defy the laws of mathematics. All schools must be above average or you require improvement and 'expert' head teachers will be bought in who apparently will be able to achieve this - 100% of schools above average. okkkkkkaaaaaayyyy then :(

no expense here except mileage - due to the fact I can be anywhere when required

I am a selfish self serving twat using my miles to attend meetings and review for young people who are looked after or statemented and schooled/fostered all over the UK

I should be publicly flogged for that alone

I am also using my works time to develop new training for social services - and I am not even a social worker - the fucking cheek of me

I am selfish enough to care about young people with extra needs - I am scum

Yep, done that Beaver, site visit to a remote place - no public transport goes there, suggest taxi - get evil look, so I used own car, get told off for not being insured and can't claim mileage. So the next time I got the bus as far as I could then walked the remainder mile or so along an unmade road and driveway in the wind and rain.

Never even got a thank you from the very large well known public school I was visiting........(for free at the publics expense as we are supposed to provide a service not a business). Apparently they are a charity.

I'm an evil fatcat lazy scum public sector worker. When we recently did a diary exercise, we discovered that every one of us in my department at my level was working the equivalent of at least a day per week extra for free. I am mortified and self-flagellating that it wasn't more.

The hearing is only on in school when the children are in school. So as soon as it hits 3pm, it starts to go cold. staff have to huddled together in one room (converted office that used to be the boys toilets) until we leave after 5.30pm (and take work home because it is just too cold to cold to stay) Scrambling for the few deaks there are. Lazy ungrateful teachers expecting to be warm. How entitiled are we! Expecting people's taxes to be spent on heating!

the heating damn my cold lazy fingers and thumbs.

You guys think you have it hard? Im a public sector worker who works in health and safety - I'm just a festering, oozing boil on the arse of society. I shouldn't be flogged, I should be publicly hung, drawn and quartered for doing the job I do.

Public aecotr workimg om health and safety?! Ha! Surely youre just finding ways to be more lazy and work shy with your 64 weeks holiday a year and million pound a year pension.

And thinking of ways to create unncessary red tape on behalf of our EU overlords.