
Talk about a waste of taxpayers money. The IT team I worked with had no work for about 2 months and they kept the entire team on. We were doing about 5 hours work a week and getting paid for 37.5!
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worked for Glasgow City Council. Same Story. 3 hour lunch breaks. Home at 2.30pm on a Friday...
Edit: Actually, Monday-Friday, early hometime.
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Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:04,
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Edit: Actually, Monday-Friday, early hometime.

Work for a council.*
*civil service pension too!
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Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:07,
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*civil service pension too!

So what is the solution? Lay them off and get in contractors when you need them?
Once you have paid redundancy and then, later when you do need people, finding contractors, and then paying them contractors' rates (as opposed to public sector - i.e. low pay rates), it might not be the most cost-effective solution.
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Once you have paid redundancy and then, later when you do need people, finding contractors, and then paying them contractors' rates (as opposed to public sector - i.e. low pay rates), it might not be the most cost-effective solution.

MoD. It is difficult getting lots of public sector people to do anything and impossible for them to be sacked. It's not like here in the private sector when I spend 40+ hours a week in the office on looking at the interweb.
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Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:22,
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why they couldn't just approach from the side. I mean the eye can't actually turn around, right? It's stuck between those two spikes!
/edit - Woo!
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Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:04,
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/edit - Woo!

But you are right-- those spikes are a definite blind spot.
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Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:05,
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a large mirror to a nazgul to see the blindspots.
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