I like mine, too.
But now is not the best time to be working in the public sector for an organisation that's going to be scrapped in 2012, in a team that is already one person down, might possibly be two, on a programme that whilst it has to be delivered until at least 2013, nobody in government seems to be able to decide where it's going to be delivered from or who's going to be delivering it. If that makes sense.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:42, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Wibble!

( girlinthehole, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:43, Reply)

I know precisely what you mean
I use to work on a government funded program - we'd get maybe a week's notice as to whether it was continuing each month. It was hugely successful so, of course, the scrapped it. It might come back, one day but who knows. In the mean time, all the set up we did is lost :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:44, Reply)

I'm working on the current incarnation of LEADER.
Community led regeneration my arse. It accounts for 25% of the overall programme budget and 75% of the fucking work. Talk about process heavy.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:47, Reply)

I have no idea what that is

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:49, Reply)

It's basically a rural regeneration approach
Where you give a group of representatives in a discreet rural area responsibility for awarding grants to businesses and community groups. Trouble is it's so utterly bureaucratic thanks to the way it's been set up in England; my job is to ensure that each project complies with EU regulations, but I end up doing much more than that because the rules are so sodding complex and the people 'on the ground' don't seem to understand the requirements even though they think they should be given the resonsibility for running the programme themselves.

I'd love to be able to hand it over and say 'there you go, get on with it' and then piss myself laughing as they fuck it up completely and get hit by fines from the EU. But that isn't likely to happen.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:59, Reply)

ah, I see
my old boss had to apply for communities first funding, and that was a bitch. I imagine closer to the rules must have been impossible. Luckily I just did the fun bits and spent all the money on printer ink
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:01, Reply)

Just ignore my ranting, I'm in unusally grumpy old man mode this evening.
The job would be fine if the people in the chain properly understood their responsibilities.

Unfortunately, even after two years the concept of providing three quotes for works, business accounts, and only applying for 'x'% of funds appears to be utterly beyond them.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:06, Reply)