Really tired these past couple of days. Work is quiet, which helps, but unfortunately the presence of HEOs means I can't have a sleep there. Plus, what kind of example would that be setting? More coffee, please. I've invented stuff for myself to do. Things like cleaning out stuff I don't need. After all, an uncluttered worker is a happy worker. At least for me, anyway. I don't like mess. I'm also being diligent and making inroads on drafts of performance appraisals etc before things get crazy again.
The Finance Bill tomorrow may mean some voluntary redundancies for underemployed civil servants or rapid deployment to other departments that are understaffed. I don't think it's a problem in my area, but I'm still getting images in my head based on the film, "Office Space", in which (among other things) a corporate hatchet man is sent to a company. He has to interview each employee and each has to justify his or her job. Imagine if it happened to the civil service!
It won't - because it would take forever and would necessitate the hiring of an external contractor, which are well documented recently for already draining public finances.
But what if it did? I imagine there are many folk whose "jobs" could be culled, and how they would behave if a hatchet man did come:
Hatchet Man: So, what do you do?
Civil Servant: I'm a civil servant.
HM: I know that already. I'm not chatting you up. What's the nature of your job?
CS: Weeell... I clock in at 10. Then I go to my desk and power on my PC. While that's firing up I take my newspaper to the toilet and have my morning dump. I come back up, push some paper around the desk for twenty minutes and then go for tea for an hour.
HM: Here's a P45. Take it to the dole office where the civil servants who actually work for a living will process your dole claim.
I work hard, though. Honest. I earn my tea. And I don't spend longer in the toilet than necessary.
The Finance Bill tomorrow may mean some voluntary redundancies for underemployed civil servants or rapid deployment to other departments that are understaffed. I don't think it's a problem in my area, but I'm still getting images in my head based on the film, "Office Space", in which (among other things) a corporate hatchet man is sent to a company. He has to interview each employee and each has to justify his or her job. Imagine if it happened to the civil service!
It won't - because it would take forever and would necessitate the hiring of an external contractor, which are well documented recently for already draining public finances.
But what if it did? I imagine there are many folk whose "jobs" could be culled, and how they would behave if a hatchet man did come:
Hatchet Man: So, what do you do?
Civil Servant: I'm a civil servant.
HM: I know that already. I'm not chatting you up. What's the nature of your job?
CS: Weeell... I clock in at 10. Then I go to my desk and power on my PC. While that's firing up I take my newspaper to the toilet and have my morning dump. I come back up, push some paper around the desk for twenty minutes and then go for tea for an hour.
HM: Here's a P45. Take it to the dole office where the civil servants who actually work for a living will process your dole claim.
I work hard, though. Honest. I earn my tea. And I don't spend longer in the toilet than necessary.
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I'm working 11 hours a day, overtime every night till half 9 and I'm in every saturday and Sunday timm the 19th of December.
And I'm a Civil Servant.
You bastard.
Yikes. Sorry to hear that mate.
Just having a laugh. This is how I let off steam. My job can be incredibly pressurised for several weeks at a time, when I can't even take a day off. I've got a breather for a couple of weeks before the fun starts all over again.
I've never been offered overtime as a CS, no matter how busy it gets. I'm expected to get things done in the time allocated.
The keyboard is lighter than the shovel
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