Poignant article by Nick Webb in the latest Super Soaraway Sunday Sindo:
Civil servants' claims expose deadly danger of papercuts - Irish, Business - Independent.ie
Quote:
"Papercuts of unprecedented agony are thought to have brought entire government departments to a standstill on occasion."
That's what I've been saying for years. FORMS CAN KILL. I am aware of a HEO keeling over from the shock of having to process a form himself because of staff shortages. Forms have been known to come back from the front lines splattered in blood, poo, and many other disease-bearing bodily fluids. And we have to handle them. A papercut from one of those filthy bastards could lay a CO low for six weeks!
"6 per cent of all claims against the State for employer liability, public liability and property damage come from our 36,000 civil servants. Gardai made 5 per cent of the claims, with prison officers accounting for 4 per cent in 2010. Civil servants were only marginally less likely to claim against the State than prisoners."
Is "Prisoners" the new shorthand for Prison officers? I thought they were two entirely different entities.
If so, I want to change my job title to "Executioner". It has a much nicer ring to it, don't you think?
Hmm. And I think we may have found the source of the unexpected increase in population calculated in this year's preliminary Census results.
"But there are 4.8 million people in the country, as opposed to just 360,000 civil servants."
Aha! So it's not births... it's civil servants multiplying tenfold since the earlier paragraph was written! So much for the Croke Park agreement! I didn't know we could reproduce so quickly; I wasn't aware of my capacity for mitosis, might come in handy all right for that meeting I couldn't be arsed attending...
Thank you Sindo. I've discovered a whole new side of myself. Ten of them, in fact. Bwahahahahah!
Civil servants' claims expose deadly danger of papercuts - Irish, Business - Independent.ie
Quote:
"Papercuts of unprecedented agony are thought to have brought entire government departments to a standstill on occasion."
That's what I've been saying for years. FORMS CAN KILL. I am aware of a HEO keeling over from the shock of having to process a form himself because of staff shortages. Forms have been known to come back from the front lines splattered in blood, poo, and many other disease-bearing bodily fluids. And we have to handle them. A papercut from one of those filthy bastards could lay a CO low for six weeks!
"6 per cent of all claims against the State for employer liability, public liability and property damage come from our 36,000 civil servants. Gardai made 5 per cent of the claims, with prison officers accounting for 4 per cent in 2010. Civil servants were only marginally less likely to claim against the State than prisoners."
Is "Prisoners" the new shorthand for Prison officers? I thought they were two entirely different entities.
If so, I want to change my job title to "Executioner". It has a much nicer ring to it, don't you think?
Hmm. And I think we may have found the source of the unexpected increase in population calculated in this year's preliminary Census results.
"But there are 4.8 million people in the country, as opposed to just 360,000 civil servants."
Aha! So it's not births... it's civil servants multiplying tenfold since the earlier paragraph was written! So much for the Croke Park agreement! I didn't know we could reproduce so quickly; I wasn't aware of my capacity for mitosis, might come in handy all right for that meeting I couldn't be arsed attending...
Thank you Sindo. I've discovered a whole new side of myself. Ten of them, in fact. Bwahahahahah!
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I got a paper cut off a civil service form circa 1939 in the national archive once - my hand withered and died a la Dumbledore in Harry Potter
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