Slow Readers and Unfocused Rage18 Jul 2008 01:16 pm
By Nelson
Thanks to “Very Tenables”.
why is it always council employees go on strike - do they not think that ordinary people are struckling - i am an office worker but no matter what i am ordinary people ie joe public we are all suffering from high prices get on with it - you get paid enough to say if a bin is too heavy i am not empting it or if as described in the press lately if i cant pull a bin by my finger im not empting it what are you being paid for ????????? i
conroy, burnley
What exactly do you do in an office? Draught excluder?
46 Responses to “Office Worker”
I would imagine he struckles a bit.
I just hope it wasn’t Gordon Brown.
Perhaps he’s on PRP…
>What exactly do you do in an office? Draught excluder?
Going by previous experience of working in offices, they’re probably in upper management.
I’m not ashamed to admit I had a good struckle this morning.
The world according to HYS: Councils exist solely to empty bins. Every person employed by councils works as a bin man. Nothing else at all. FACT!
What exactly do you do in an office? Draught excluder?
No, a draught excluder would have a useful role to play.
As a council employee, I would say I feel like a bin man given the amount of rubbish I have to deal with from the HYS community - that’s where they tend to go when they’re not sat in front of the Beebs website.
Just what the country needs. Instead of the country beeing stuffed to the rafters with obese wheezing chavs intent on knifecriming every in sight, it will be filled to the rafters with fit and healthy chavs intent on knifecriming every in sight, from whom an obese wheezing Daily Mail reader is unable to run away.
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Charles Exford
Oxton
why is it always council employees go on strike?
because, unlike the private sector they have a decent union and don’t like getting royally fucked up the ass by their employers.
Sorry to break the tone of ironic detatchment generally found in comments here, but it really annoys me when people say “oh we never strike in the public sector cos we’re hard”. It’s not cos you’re hard. It’s cos you are weak and exploited. Why are you so proud of not doing anything about it?
I work for a council - in an office! - and they certainly wouldn’t employ anyone that ’struckled’ so painfully with basic literacy skills. Maybe *that’s* why he’s so bitter.
Quite right. I make a point of going on strike twice a month just to make sure my cunt of a boss knows not to push me around.
I’m self-employed, mind.
Come on Dai, you’re all still get your increment. It’s a bit misleading to say you won’t be getting a pay rise this year.
“i am ordinary people ie joe public we are all suffering from high prices get on with it”
Maybe he should go on strike? Then maybe him & his friend joe wouldn’t be struckling so much…
PS: I like the fact he doesn’t see any distinction between low pay and high prices. He’s either an extremely insightful economist or a turd. I struckle to say which though…
Me too. I’ve already given myself 3 verbal warnings and 1 written warning this month. I sometimes wonder what it’ll take before I either sack myself or tell myself I quit.
Just don’t make the same mistake I did and tell your boss he can fucking blow you. That’s three vertebrae I’ll never get unfused.
Im sorry to turn this in to a reality, but, Dai, I agree.
Three things people don’t get:
1) That if you work for the Government in any way you get the pay rise you are given. If other people get 2%, or whatever, it is genraly because that is what they agreed with there boss, not what you have been told everyone will get from on high.
2) This idea of “well you should quit blah blah blah”. What about those 90% of people who have worked in the public sector for years and have become so specalised that there is no private sector equivelent for them to leave to…
3) Why is it that these fools think that the council dose nothing more than empty bins, and they sould be alowed to fill the bin with bricks and it still be colected.
I love that “i” at the end after the question marks. It’s as if he was about to launch into another paragraph of crap, but then got a call to go mop up a spillage and had to stop there.
I expect he just muttered the sentence under his breath instead.
And back to normal….
I love the “i” right at the end of his post. Makes me thing he has issues souronding his sense of self. Either that or he is a twat who shouldent be alowed to use a keyboard.
Even my posts are better than that, and I’m Dyslexic and lazy.
So, Conroy ‘works’ in an office.
I suspect that in reality he just turns up at an office every day. People are nice to him, get him to run odd jobs, make coffee, replace stationery etc and probably use words with low numbers of syllables when asking him to do things.
Some kind hearted lady probably even volunteers to dance with him at the christmas party, which encourages to him hang round her desk for weeks afterwards and buy her tulips from the petrol station every week until she leaves or asks HR to ‘have a word’.
I would say that Conroy should try doing a week ‘on the bins’ to see how much he thought it really should pay, but he would probably just end up hitting himself and screaming in the street if they changed the route.
I love that “i” at the end after the question marks. It’s as if he was about to launch into another paragraph of crap, but then got a call to go mop up a spillage and had to stop there.
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Yeah, pink vomit covered with cheap sawdust.
Happy days.
Its Milton Waddams
It is! It is!
Induction tour at the firm where Conroy works:
“….oh, and thats Conroy, he’s the bosses son and runs errands for us. He’s really quite sweet and pretty harmless as long as you dont touch him, it makes him upset.”
Hmm, Paul, I have to take issue with you
“Agreed with their boss” - yeah, right! Private sector pay rises work just the same way as public sector ones. You don’t sit down with your boss over a nice cup of tea and “agree” on a pay rise, you take what you’re offered or you can find a new job!
So 90% of people in the public sector have no transferrable skills and are so “specialised” (i.e. can only do one thing) that they’re unemployable in private enterprise? And yet you’re complaining about levels of pay?
A nice bit of hyperbole. I think you need to distinguish between “filled with bricks” and “there’s an extra bag this week so it won’t quite shut properly”. There once was a time when the bin men would come round the side of your house, collect your dustbins, bring them back AND leave new a new set of black bags. Those were the days.
When he says he “works” in “an office”, he’s actually using a clever code. He actually masturbates in a primary school.
Too much actually. Balls.
@The Go-Nutteer. If some super market competitive non-specialised skilled private sector worker wants to swap with me, I’ll gladly sit in their office 9-5 moaning on HYS while they assess the pissed and suicidal in A&E at 3am. Remind them to empty the bins on the way out, that’s the vital part of the job.
Not the best counter example: there is a labour market for medical staff in the private sector.
M - you’re right, there is a private medical sector (except I’m not a doctor, but a nurse) except they tend not to run A&Es. But I take your point.
Pressed enter to quickly. The point I was trying to make was that sometimes specialised skills are quite useful.
I’ll stop before it’s even duller.
I remember the days the binmen would come round the back your house too. They nicked our christmas tree one year, the thieving bastards. 20 years ago that was and it still smarts.
I remember the days when the binmen would come to your house, pick up your rubbish, politely thank you for the rubbish bag you dashed out of your house with no shirt on to throw in the dump truck and then drive off in their truck.
Those were the days.
Do you think this guys real name is Conroy?
I like how Conroy posts a comment that people should just accept situations you don’t like and shut up; on HYS the world’s leading whingeathon.
If he works in an office in Burnley, it is probably some government grant aided office, or an office space where large national companies send malcontents. Or, he actually works at Brun House and no one at Brun House can be arsed to tell him that he is entitled to belong to a union.
I think I will send his comments to the Burnley Express. Burnley Express thrives on printing crap, so they will most likely cream themselves that Burnley was mentioned on the Interweb thingy.
ps. gonutteer, was that a counter argument. Or just shorthand for ISIHAC.
pps. Hyperbole! Good grief.
Struckling? STRUCKLING?! How on the bloody Earth could someone come up with that spelling? And moreover, how could someone get to adulthood without ever having read a variation on the word struggle and thought “so that’s how it’s spelled”? It beggars belief. Struckling!
I remember when you could just throw your rubbish out of the window and over the passing folk. Ahh..
I get minimum wage in my job. Some bastard binman should not be allowed to strike for more than me.
I process G63P forms. It’s a skillful job. I read the paper version and type the computer version. If I don’t complete 75 a day, my line manager, Mrs Patel, gets shitty.(why is she my line manager when I am an indiginous member of our island race???)
And now some low scum, white-trash binman wants more than me? FUCK OFF CHAVVY! I wear a tie, I should be on twice what you’re on!
All bosses are fat-cat arseholes and only commie wankers strike! End of.
My only comment to this person is:
If you like the private sector so much, why don’t you go live there?
@La G, I certainly don’t mean to imply that specialist skills aren’t useful. But I’m also sure that you’re a competent, well-organised person who would do very well in the private sector if you decided nursing wasn’t for you.
I agree that nurses, teachers and other important public sector workers should be better paid, but I don’t buy the argument that they don’t have a choice.
Paul seems to be deluded about the difference between the private and public sectors. Private sector is not a byword for overpaid, morally bankrupt keyboard bashers.
Ah, you must not live on my estate.
To Dave from Bristol…. I would never want to leave the private sector! And I’d like to second The Go-Nutteer on the pay increases point … you’re right, not all of us can get to “negotiate” a nice fat increase… it’s take what you’re given, or if you don’t like it, bugger off and find a better-paying job!
That’s why people in the private sector are more likely to change their jobs regularly, unlike many in the public sector who end up working there for years (and I’m talking about non-specialised roles here).
I generally find calling any kind of public sector provided helpline/call centre a much more rewarding experience than calling any of the multiple private sector call centres based in far flung parts of the globe.
I blame the Labour government and Tony B.Liar for his war on the family and commonsenses.
This reads as though he put “I am a tosswank” in Japanese into babelfish and asked it to translate into barely intelligible English.
Also, one comma and one full stop in nine lines of text. Impressive.
I comment on the wrong post! Ballbags.
i am struckling for an anser to this.but i think it may be that grade of civvil servent AA that is only allowed to use the fotocopier and faxx and stuff. the end.
it’s like conroy saved up all his punctuation so he could invest in all those question marks at the end.
probably nicked a dodgy load of apostrophes from a market stall for an extra ?.
Coming to this a little late, I just wanted to add that that ‘draft-excluder’ remark had me chuckling for minutes