Overextended?
I've yet to see any evidence that any council is overextended.

I took a mate to the local council a couple of weeks back as he wanted to enquire about getting a pest control licence.

Five people sat about watching us at the desk, laughing and joking, one had his feet up on the desk. When I shouted across at them (after 15 minutes of watching them NOT coming to serve us), they just shouted, "use the phone or touchscreen" - neither of which had an option for asking about a pest control licence.

He gave up and now just does it for cash in hand jobs for farmers.

Of course, the whole office was closed at 3pm, and wasn't open until 10am.

If they were so overextended, you'd think that they'd soak up the extra 3 hours that most of us have to work every day.
(dchurch bah, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:39, Reply)