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BBD wrote:
Healthcare - An underfunded and under supported NHS are on a hiding to nothing, hit with targets and then given no support to be able to meet them. How the healthcare professionals in hospitals and in our community keep getting up and going into work never ceases to amaze me

Public Services - Similar story, under resourced and blamed for everything

Digby wrote:

Banquo wrote:

Digby wrote:
I've only ever worked privately myself. And there are plenty of wastes of money walking around at all levels. And typically the main driver isn't customers, growth, efficiency, but simply meeting performance targets such that management bonus payments are made, even if the actions taken to meet the targets are illogical and counter productive as part of the bigger picture.

You've not been to the right places and become too cynical. So I've worked in three example environments; private sector where growth and customer focus were king- brilliant, and everyone working in the same direction, with aligned objectives and so on; ex public sector gone private, which still bore the institutionalised scars of the public sector (performance management non existent, targets only related to internal metrics rather than serving the customer, slow moving decision making, cost cutting by buckshot (everyone get 10% say lopped off, rather than looking properly at say opportunity cost, union consultation and opposition at every step); and as a non-exec with public sector, where financial consequences were either ignored, outsourced through bad contracts, or parked under 'transformation' next year with 'lets get some consultants in to run another poorly specified procurement'. As you say, a mix of good and bad....but I know where the worst issues lay, and why. I guess you don't remember British Rail, but I was working with them as they went into privatisation.....and did they ever need it.

I went on British Rail as a kid, but no I don't remember it. I do recall reading much later just how much the Conservative government underfunded British Rail to make them a more attractive target for privitisation. It was something one of my profs at uni had spent a lot of time researching, though he was very much in favour of such entities being made private and extending market liberalisations, he wasn't close to researching with a view to bringing things back into a state fold.

I would add in addition to British Rail being underfunded I don't doubt there were many instances of bad management decision, poorly trained workers, absurd union practices.

OptimisticJock wrote:

BBD wrote:
Healthcare - An underfunded and under supported NHS are on a hiding to nothing, hit with targets and then given no support to be able to meet them. How the healthcare professionals in hospitals and in our community keep getting up and going into work never ceases to amaze me

Public Services - Similar story, under resourced and blamed for everything

There's only so many hours I can spend playing ghost recon and pulling the heid aff it.

Sandydragon wrote:I could listen to Carol all day long..

BBD wrote:

OptimisticJock wrote:

BBD wrote:
Healthcare - An underfunded and under supported NHS are on a hiding to nothing, hit with targets and then given no support to be able to meet them. How the healthcare professionals in hospitals and in our community keep getting up and going into work never ceases to amaze me

Public Services - Similar story, under resourced and blamed for everything

There's only so many hours I can spend playing ghost recon and pulling the heid aff it.

Would you be needing us to use the bigger font for yiz?

Zhivago wrote:I was watching the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. It seems so long ago. Society seems completely broken now compared to then, it's surreal...

We have extremists killing innocents... Islamic terrorism, far right terror... an increasingly dominant oligarchy, widening gulf between rich and poor (perhaps even underlying major tragedies), nationalist vs internationalist divide...

All combined gives me simply a feeling of despair at the direction we are going.

J Dory wrote:Nothing wrong with it. My car is a dull as shit 7 seater people mover. I look forward to the day when I can have something I enjoy driving again.

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J Dory wrote:Nothing wrong with it. My car is a dull as shit 7 seater people mover. I look forward to the day when I can have something I enjoy driving again.

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Lizard wrote:I'm reluctantly coming around to the need for an estate (or "station wagon" in proper English). Will I feel better about it if I get one branded as a "shooting brake"?

Lizard wrote:I'm reluctantly coming around to the need for an estate (or "station wagon" in proper English). Will I feel better about it if I get one branded as a "shooting brake"?

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Last week my 'company car' was changed over. I had been driving round in a fecking Fabia. Now if this isn't indicative of just how bashed up our society is, then what is?

I know that we all have to accept that corners must be cut if the spending deficit is to be kept in check, but putting public servants in Skodas?????

I also know that some would say that it is alright to drive a Skoda these days. They also say that it is alright to engage in buggery, but that doesn't mean you want to be doing it in public!!!!!

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Last week my 'company car' was changed over. I had been driving round in a fecking Fabia. Now if this isn't indicative of just how bashed up our society is, then what is?

I know that we all have to accept that corners must be cut if the spending deficit is to be kept in check, but putting public servants in Skodas?????

I also know that some would say that it is alright to drive a Skoda these days. They also say that it is alright to engage in buggery, but that doesn't mean you want to be doing it in public!!!!!