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# Tower Hamlets Council rehoused him.

Sorry. Had to get that image out of my head.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:00, archived)
# haha
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:00, archived)
# that is brilly-unt
:)
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:01, archived)
# Ha! I worked for LBTH years ago
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!
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:03, archived)
# An Architect I once met
worked for Glasgow City Council. Same Story. 3 hour lunch breaks. Home at 2.30pm on a Friday...

Edit: Actually, Monday-Friday, early hometime.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:04, archived)
# *note to self*
Become Architect
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:05, archived)
# What I took from that was
Work for a council.*


*civil service pension too!
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:07, archived)
# Hmm.
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.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:07, archived)
# We were contractors!
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:15, archived)
# I was a contractor at the
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.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:22, archived)
# Hahaha
That's going to drag down the house prices
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:03, archived)
# I never got
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!
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:04, archived)
# it can move
But you are right-- those spikes are a definite blind spot.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:05, archived)
# The powers of darkness could attach
a large mirror to a nazgul to see the blindspots.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:09, archived)
# those ones that you get in B&Q
for driveways that back out onto main roads are good.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:10, archived)
# Pffft!
I may just have to shop this :)

Right after I go and buy Akira#5... yay!
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 14:18, archived)