Were you displaying your resident permit?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:07, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

yep.
I was parked half in and half out of a bay because there's a portacabin been left in the bays on one side. My own fault, I'd forgotten it wasn't quite 5pm when I'd got home cos I'd left work early.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:09, Reply)

With my council, they occasionally run out of permits.
Their fault. They don't put an announcement on the website telling you "Don't bother hauling your arse to the office for vouchers because we have none." nor do they offer you anything in lieu of a permit. They just say "You can't park in your street until you have a voucher/permit, and we've run out."
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

oh, well played them.
really well played
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:12, Reply)

and public sector workers wonder why they are so disliked

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:14, Reply)

Public sector workers are mostly very pleasant and helpful
Public sector overall management and policies are the issue.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:15, Reply)

are you lying to impress women?
i'm pretty sure everything you just said was wrong
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:18, Reply)

I'm pretty sure Naked Ape is a man
and I'm also pretty sure everything I said wasn't wrong. Unless you've somehow got some evidence of efficient, effective and streamlined public sector policies that the entire rest of the fucking world is unaware of?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:20, Reply)

it was mostly the public sector workers being helpful and pleasant i was disagreeing with

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:25, Reply)

ah, rightho
I suppose it depends on your experiences.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:33, Reply)

don't rolll over so easily, fight your corner man, you got no stones or summat?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:35, Reply)

arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics, Quents.
Even if you win you're still retarded.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:40, Reply)

no it isn't!
its the best fun a young single man can ever have on his own!
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:42, Reply)

I'm a public sector worker and everyone thinks I'm pleasant and helpful.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:23, Reply)

is everyone there like you, or are you a minority?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:24, Reply)

I would say most people are very nice here.
The problems with the organisation is more based on the DfH or Ministers changing their minds after we sign 3 year contracts. That and NHS IT being honestly the shittest I have ever come across, I think there's a lot of IT upper managment who give millions of pounds worth of contracts to big IT firms on vague overpriced contracts and then quit only to join those big IT firms the next year.
I don't like to think that happens but the failures of NHS IT are so big I can't believe it's just incompitance.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:29, Reply)

wot?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:35, Reply)

It's all an elaborate metaphor for breasts Quentin

(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:38, Reply)

that'll do

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:38, Reply)

Jobsworths.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:19, Reply)

The last time this happened, I kicked up a fuss, so the manager went off somewhere,
came back and said "Postal Services have some, so I'll see if I can borrow some from them and post some out to you.
I said, "Could I have them now please, seeing as they're in the basement, where you've just been?" and she said "No, they have to be posted out."

So there's a stock of them in the basement, but they're for posting, and as nobody's requesting them by post, they're just sat there, but the counter (the counter that has run out) cannot borrow any and hand them over. They have to ask if they can borrow some, and then send the customer on their way, with their vouchers behind them in the post. And that's only if they kick up a fuss. Most people are unaware of the vouchers Shangri-La in the basement.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:19, Reply)

Did they arrive in the post?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:21, Reply)

They did, actually.
They used to refuse to send them by post lest they fell into the wrong hands, so I was surprised to hear of 'Postal Services' existence.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:24, Reply)

Small mercies, I suppose.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:40, Reply)