I did IT for patient transport
Every day a staff of 12 would work from 8-4 planning tomorrow's routes so that the minimum number of vehicles could pick several people up at a time and drop them off for their appointments and take people home again after.

One evening the system crashed and lost the entire days work. The supervisor and I sat down and cranked the whole thing back out in an hour.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 16:42, 1 reply)

I should be shocked.
But then, it has long been known that a good half of those in the public sector would have been long ago sacked in the private sector.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 17:39, closed)

My cousin works for his local authority.
Apparently, it's pretty much impossible to get sacked there. Taxpayers in that region are paying for people to do about half an hour's work per day, come and go as they please, and sit on facebook most of the time. That's when they're not phoning in sick with 'stress'.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 18:25, closed)

'apparently', any pearl of anecdotal fact is guaranteed to be bullshit if it carries the qualifier 'apparently'

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 18:32, closed)

Hmm. Change it to "He said"?

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 18:35, closed)