Ever wondered why Nanny needs to employ over 7 million trolls in her public sector empire?Simple, they're all shagging and fighting each other!
It turns out that Nanny's minions in the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) Newcastle have been caught indulging in rumpy pumpy in toilets, during office hours (who does that remind you of?), and of wandering around naked.
One person has already been sacked, and officials have begun an investigation.
Aside from the obvious, what I find most alarming about this is that these morons allowed themselves to be caught on CCTV. What does this say about the quality of intellect of the people that Nanny hires to work for her (oh sorry I mean us...we do of course pay these people's wages!)?
Seemingly, staff have been caught leaping naked from filing cabinets, having sex in office toilets, holding break-dancing competitions during working hours and fighting in a reception area.
The RPA claim that their mission is to:
"be a customer focused organisation delivering high quality services,
including processing payments and receipts,
conducting inspections and recording animal identification,
to government and the rural community."
Er, quite!
Much like most other people in Nanny's ever growing empire, they don't give a toss for the public (ie the people who pay their wages). This attitude comes from the very top.
Maybe, given the seemingly endemic "take the piss" culture in the public sector, I have been too hard on the Smooth Talking Bar Steward?
Seemingly he was, after all, only following normal custom and practice within the public sector.
No wonder the farmers have been waiting ages for their payments if this is what the jobswoths have been getting up to,instead of what the taxpayers pay them to do
ReplyDeleteSack the b*****y lot of them.
It can't last for ever; it cannot be sustained. Sooner or later the public sector must hit the buffers. The time will come when the taxpayer is unable to go on funding all this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteAt the very least, matters will come to a head on the question of public sector pensions. If the government has already got all your money, how can you give it any more?
We're already seeing the beginnings, such as the surge in the black economy and pensioners being jailed over council tax.
An economy must conform to certain basic laws, like the real world in which it is based. Once the tax-take exceeds 40%, people stop doing overtime and the economy falters. Yesterday's news on utility-bill inflation is just one indicator of the impending economic disaster.
And who is the chief culprit? Step forward yet another BLOODY SCOTCH GIT: Gordon "Prudence" Brown.
railwayman39 said...
ReplyDelete"What were the Section Heads doing while all this was taking place or were they in there also."
They were probably the ones leaping from filing cabinets with their bits all a dangle. When I worked for a government department (hangs head in shame) it was the more often those in the higher echelons who were the most workshy, useless b*****ds in the place. Unfortunately whatever it was that had affected them often seeped downwards to infect junior members of the department already bored to tears with the crushing banality of the job. It was one of the reasons I grew disillusioned and decided to get out and do something better.
I used to work on the disgraced Intervention Boards BSE cull database. The waste was by design. Not only would the rules governing how data must be verified change every three months, meaning all data already verified would have to be verified again (thus we could only get three months into the project)the files submitted by farmers were stored in Newcastle whilst the database records were kept in Reading. Every now and then they would send all the files in Newcastle down to Reading in crates in no order whatsoever. We would sort them into order, work on them for a month or so then they would be sent back up to Newcastle. We were never given a reason for this process, files were lost all of the time. Farmers went out of business. Those with any savvy realised that there was no need to work as you would always have to start the project again and your previous efforts would be void. The work was soul destroying (checking a database against the original source, digit by digit) but the actual job was like a social club. I know it was morally abhorrent to stay in the job but I considered it a tax rebate. If you can't beat them join them. Eventually though the notion that I had become sub-human and the complete absence of self respect compelled me to get another job.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think the perpetrators should be "named and shamed" by the CCTV footage being put on the internet for all to see. If we can't stop the useless oxygen thieves frittering away our taxes, the least they could do is provide us with a (hollow) laugh.
ReplyDeleteThis perhaps isnt indicative of all civil servants. According to other reports, ALOT of the people involved were agency staff, angry at the low pay and poor treatment received. Combined with one or two bored staff members this can often lead to revolt. This is all down to shoddy management. Simply.
ReplyDeleteps I'm not a civil servant ;)