HARIBO ARE LETTING KIDS GO TO THEIR FACTORY - TO RUN THE PLACE!!!!
It's wasted on them - this is so unfair!
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Nearly as bad as Bush...
These are the only European countries I have visited:
create your personalized map of europe
or write about it on the open travel guide
Must get out more. Italy will be included after July when I go away with Joy and her parents, but it's looking a bit woeful at present.
create your personalized map of europe
or write about it on the open travel guide
Must get out more. Italy will be included after July when I go away with Joy and her parents, but it's looking a bit woeful at present.
The Daily Mail does it again...
Hey, look (a little late I know)! We're going to impose controls (possibly) on migrants from the 10 EU accession states, or so Blair has decided. Now, I've probably forgotten all I learnt about the EU during my student days (it was 3 years ago), but I didn't think they were allowed to do that. I thought that, as EU citizens (which they will be), they had the right to travel and to move and to work within the EU just as, say, I would have the right to travel to, say, Spain and live and work there without needing a workpermit. So why do these people need permits? It couldn't be, surely not, that the right-wing press is kicking up a fuss??
No, perish the thought...
Incidentally, as you may know, I work for Work Permits (UK). So guess which department's going to have to deal with them...
No, perish the thought...
Incidentally, as you may know, I work for Work Permits (UK). So guess which department's going to have to deal with them...
Monday, February 16, 2004
Civil Servants bad...
Tories deny 'slash and burn' policy
Apparently, us civil servants are, mostly, pen-pushers and our "backroom" funds need to be pushed to the "front line". Now, I don't want to dispute the need for more money for essential "front line" staff such as teachers, nurses, doctors etc. We get enough work permit applications to know that there's a shortage of them. And I don't deny that there is quite a lot of waste, bureocracy and inefficiency in the civil service. But why, whilst the government and opposition disagree about the figures, do both sides seem to agree that civil servants are a legitimate target and that it's good to slim us down? Letwin, Brown et al ought to come and work at Work Permits (UK), where we're only just keeping our heads above water to churn out cases, and we're getting numerous phone calls nagging us about work permits. Then he'd see how hard we work and how difficult, in certain areas, it's going to be to cut down, whether you do that by recruitment freeze, or whatever.
He might also do well to read Polly Toynbee's article on the matter of civil service "waste" and the good we're doing (not all her points are accurate, but I do have a (rather biased) sympathy with the thrust of the article).
Apparently, us civil servants are, mostly, pen-pushers and our "backroom" funds need to be pushed to the "front line". Now, I don't want to dispute the need for more money for essential "front line" staff such as teachers, nurses, doctors etc. We get enough work permit applications to know that there's a shortage of them. And I don't deny that there is quite a lot of waste, bureocracy and inefficiency in the civil service. But why, whilst the government and opposition disagree about the figures, do both sides seem to agree that civil servants are a legitimate target and that it's good to slim us down? Letwin, Brown et al ought to come and work at Work Permits (UK), where we're only just keeping our heads above water to churn out cases, and we're getting numerous phone calls nagging us about work permits. Then he'd see how hard we work and how difficult, in certain areas, it's going to be to cut down, whether you do that by recruitment freeze, or whatever.
He might also do well to read Polly Toynbee's article on the matter of civil service "waste" and the good we're doing (not all her points are accurate, but I do have a (rather biased) sympathy with the thrust of the article).
Monday, February 09, 2004
sorry...
OK, I'm failing quite miserably to keep this up to date like I said I would.
Mind you, since apparently only three people have looked at this since 30 Janurary, I'm not sure it will bother too may people...
Anyway, some things have happened since my last post, but not much. We've started a discipleship course at church called Masterlife, which has been very challenging, thought-provoking, but interesting. I think it's just the start of what God wants to do in my life, but I definitely think He wants to use it to... bring changes that are desperately needed. Of course, I have to let Him. And that's the difficult part...
Tomorrow, at work, we go on our team build! We're not going far this time, only to Castleton. But it'll be my first night away from Joy since we got married :-( So, I'll miss her, but it's only one night, so I hope it won't be toobad. Will report back once it's over.
Mind you, since apparently only three people have looked at this since 30 Janurary, I'm not sure it will bother too may people...
Anyway, some things have happened since my last post, but not much. We've started a discipleship course at church called Masterlife, which has been very challenging, thought-provoking, but interesting. I think it's just the start of what God wants to do in my life, but I definitely think He wants to use it to... bring changes that are desperately needed. Of course, I have to let Him. And that's the difficult part...
Tomorrow, at work, we go on our team build! We're not going far this time, only to Castleton. But it'll be my first night away from Joy since we got married :-( So, I'll miss her, but it's only one night, so I hope it won't be toobad. Will report back once it's over.
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