to hate " I am a civil servant" as a description

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when you work in a local council office fgs

What's your problem with it?

well I think its a Leetle pompous when the person could say " i am a secretary" and simultaneously be more accurate.

To say you are a civil servant is a pretty unhelpful description no matter who uses it. The term covers the guy who does the photocopying in the local job centre up to the head honcho of a major government department who has the ears of the PM.

thats it!

cool, i'm gonna start saying that

dp is a 'civil servant'....we tell people this is what he does until we know them a bit better. Mainly because he works for a department which means he gets all sorts of personal opinions/stupid questions directed at him when people find out so we vet who knows the specifics of his job.

I'm not sure if you work for a local authority,that you are a civil servant,thought it was a public servant.Not sure.

Dh works in the traffic dept for a local authority but has never classed himself as a civil servant.

Yes civil servants work for government departments not the local council.

Maybe they don't want you to know what they do Agree that I wouldn't consider council workers as civil servants

Local council employees NOT civil servants. CS's paid by central govt, local council staff by local govt. But all are public sector.

queenrollo- we do exactly the same civil servant is bland and inoffensive, without giving too much away

I always use it....people would be very rolly-eyed if I'd said "I'm a higher executive officer in the immigration and nationality directorate of the Home Office" (apart from the fact they'd be in the next town by the time I finished....)

Don't council workers work "for local government"