Public Sector Workers chained to desks…..
The Public Sector is up in arms this morning.
Its God given right to down tools and cease work on ‘essential front line services’ whenever the Queen has an official birthday, or one of her children get married, or there is a bank holiday, not to mention the Sabbath and Friday afternoons…had resulted in a promising 11 days holiday in mid April by the simple expedient of taking three days of holiday entitlement between the official Bank Holidays of the 22nd, 25th and 29th of April and the 2nd May.
The Head of the Civil Service has put paid to that. Sir Gus O’Flannel issued a press release saying:
“There have been requests for time off in between the two bank holidays. We’ve looked at those on a case by case basis and approved none of them. Holiday hasn’t been authorised over that period at critical functions such as supporting front line services. We’re taking a sensible approach in between the bank holidays to ensure we’ve appropriate capacity across the public sector to support vulnerable clients and to give us the best possible chance of keeping our jobs in the current financial year.”
Those spotting sun bathing public sector workers between 22ndApril and 2nd May can be assured that they are genuinely on the sick list, not on holiday.
April 4, 2011 at 11:26
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Slightly unfair if somebody had time off booked before Prince William
proposed!
- April 1, 2011 at 21:09
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I did an April Fools joke today but nobody noticed – in the new
disciplinary Excel spreadsheet I had been asked to produce, I entered one Mary
Jones who was sacked for gross misconduct on 1/4/11 for running amok in the
corridor with an axe. The comments emailed from senior management included
“fine”, “nice layout” and others saying could not I put more detail in on
sections in departments and individual managers involved. I give up – maybe
they will notice by Monday and then I’ll be sacked.
- April 1, 2011 at 20:14
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In the news today………..The Daily Sport has gone BUST. No news about
remaining assets.
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April 1, 2011 at 22:25
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titter, titter……
- April 1, 2011 at 17:30
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“Those spotting sun bathing public sector workers between 22ndApril and 2nd
May can be assured that they are genuinely on the sick list, not on
holiday.”
Unless of course it’s in Blackpool, and they’re Sandwell BC operatives.
- April 1, 2011 at 14:49
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It might be a lefty plot designed to upset the poor dears in the Civil
Service. Note the use of the word “vulnerable” which is only allowed to be
used by lefties, usually in the Grauniad, not the Head of the Civil Service.
All Government attempts to balance the books are characterised by lefties as
being an attack on “vulnerable people” (I always wonder ” vulnerable to what ?
” ). It has replaced “progressive” as their favourite word which they had to
drop when they realised it wasn’t working. If the word “ideological” appeared,
that would clinch it for me.
- April 1, 2011 at 15:38
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The crux of leftie politics is to foster dependency on the state at all
times, and such leave as many people as possible (temporally) vulnerable to
any retreat of the state, or even lack of its advance.
- April 2, 2011 at 18:29
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The trouble with the word “vulnerable”, is that most users pronounce it
“vunrable”.
(cringe).
I should get a life?
- April 1, 2011 at 12:28
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I hope it is an AF joke Anna. Mind you, it’s hard to tell nowadays!
- April 1, 2011 at 11:53
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You seem to have forgotten the half day holiday on Maundy Thursday which is
a great British tradition.
F.U.
- April 1, 2011 at 11:26
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A further part of the memo has not been made public. Apparently, senior
managers are to be issued with large whips, and any serf with the temerity to
request so much as a comfort break is to be ritually flayed before the other
staff, as an encouragement. Managers have been instructed to continue the
beatings until morale improves.
- April 1, 2011 at 12:51
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Not harsh enough. Surely at Easter we can think of something more
traditional, and help the nail and timber industries?
- April 1, 2011 at 22:27
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After 14 years in the MOD the idea of managers actually ‘managing’
staff is a concept on the dark-side of a moon orbiting a dead sun in a
galaxy far, far, away.
Please do not ascribe to the civil service the concepts of
‘management’, ‘value for money’, or other outrageous concepts!
That’s why I left.
- April 1,
2011 at 10:28
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If it’s not an April Fool I’ll eat my hat – the unions would be screeching
loud enough to shatter all windows in Whitehall if anyone suggested this…
- April 1, 2011 at 10:19
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I recognise this as being associated with today’s date and claim my £10
prize.
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April 1, 2011 at 08:23
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I’ve sent the quote to my civil servant son, with an appropriate
top-and-tail. Am expecting a robust reply.
The sunbather is wearing brown
shoes with a blue tie and a dark suit. Such a departure from acceptable dress
standards would suggest that the sunbather is not a civil servant, but
possibly a surgeon or an IT engineer or even a Labour apparachik.
- April 1, 2011 at 11:31
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You will notice that his hand rests upon the other deckchair, reserving
it for his pretty secretary whom he has sent in search of ice-creams.
- April 1, 2011 at 07:44
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The problem is not the need to support frontline services.
Sir Gus has shrewedly realised that no one would notice if the whole civil
service took the week off. That would be very bad in the keeping your job
department.
- April 1, 2011 at 11:37
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Precisely…..
- April 2, 2011 at 10:36
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Well then, why not exercise some pre-emptive retribution and sack the
lot of them before they have time off sick between the bank holidays. We
could sack the entire civil service and then start again with what we
actually need. And while we are at it, we could stop funding the arts,
entirely, fake charities and private companies like ACPO.
Before leftist git starts complaining that I am a cultural philistine,
let me remind everyone that subsidy to the arts, especially in areas
considered ‘highbrow’ only leads to the same people going to more
performances, there is no impirical evidence that I am aware of that has
been published to show it extends the demographic range of the
audience.
Hey, Georgy Girl might even be able to afford some tax cuts if he was
really serious and let those who are willing to get off their backsides
and work keep what they earn.
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