A cowardly uncivil servant doesn’t want to come back to work.
A defiant civil service union boss has hit back at Boris Johnson’s call to return to the office by accusing the Prime Minister of trying to shame government workers back to desks.
Mr Johnson last night set a target of four in five workers to return to Whitehall each week by the end of the month, with mandarins also providing weekly figures on staff numbers to monitor progress.
However, Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, which represents managers and professionals in public service, said there has been an ‘industrial revolution’ towards home working.
There is a simple and equitable solution here. Don’t come back. We will advertise your job and select someone who will. There. Problem solved.
Yes. Sack all these twats asap.
One of my great pleasures on a Saturday is walking to the newsagent and fetching my Daily Telegraph. Today i have been denied that by the upper class terrorists of Extinction Rebellion who blocked print plants overnight. Our useless police failed to clear these fuckwits out of the way. As far as I am concerned hanging on meathooks is too good an end for them.
Today was very illuminating. Mid morning last Wednesday I walked down through The City, over the Millennium Bridge and along the south bank to Waterloo Station. It was still like a ghost town, very few people around, some buskers, the odd desultory jogger. I repeated the exact same walk today, and the south bank was packed. Like a scene from summer last year. Clearly people are in no way ‘too scared’ to be in crowds in the centre of the city. Something else is keeping them away…
As always, there would be a big difference in attitude if public sector got no wages or pension if they don’t turn up to work. ( Not going to call them workers!)
As long as the public sector are a protected class there will be a two class system between the featherbedded public sector and the poor bloody taxpayer who has to pay for it.
But they aren’t ‘not turning up to work’. They are working at home.
And if they are equally as productive there as they are in the office, what are they coming back for?
If the process is good enough for masks, it’s good enough for this.
Yes, it’s all bollocks, but they need to be held to their own standards.
I’m perfectly happy with people working from home, but government has trashed our economy and brought in unnecessary, idiotic laws regarding mask wearing in order to “reassure”. Well, this is no different.
@Janszoon, Nessimmersion
Something else?
Being on full pay to not work
Gov should have furloughed them, they’d all be back at work on 1 November
btw Furlough should have been at most 70% and ended 31 July at latest
Sack the buggers as Charlie Mullins, Pimlico Plumbers did, most will not be missed
Compare and contrast the government’s ‘get back into the office’ rhetoric with this:
“…(we) cannot simply wait for offices to fill up again: the company has to change – not its customers. If you focus on waiting for things to get back to normal, as far as I’m concerned, you’re dead,’ says (the man). ‘We are telling our staff, do not focus on when people come back to offices, focus on where our customers are.
‘Yes, workers will be in offices less frequently, but we have a great brand and a great product. We need to look at how customer behaviour is changing, and how we can adapt our business model to that.'”
Who said it? Why, none other than the head of Pret.One of those shops the government is trying to force people back into an outdated business model to save.
Makes you think?
“Don’t come back. We will advertise your job and select someone who will”.
Why? The vast majority of government jobs are make work and contribute nothing whatsoever to society (Think Public Health UK or the vast number of Managers and orifice staff in the Sacred Cow of the NHS where the number of beds is 127,225 – from here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/25/hospital-beds-at-record-low-in-england-as-nhs-struggles-with-demand – and the number of mangers is 77,000 – from here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/health-and-social-care-bill/mythbusters/nhs-managers). Each manager “manages” 1.65 beds … and that does not include secretaries, other support staff etc.
No, sack them and do not replace them.