how do idle civil servants pass the time?

kpbdublin · 19-03-2010 04:58PM #1

Now that they are on go-slows and work-to-rules how are our public servants passing the time. Can they go on the internet, do they play cards, or gaze out the window? Do they bring along a good book?
What would happen if a supervisor got it into his or her head to discipline them for not doing the work they are paid to do?

davyjose · 19-03-2010 05:05PM

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ejmaztec · 19-03-2010 05:06PM

kpbdublin wrote: »

Now that they are on go-slows and work-to-rules how are our public servants passing the time. Can they go on the internet, do they play cards, or gaze out the window? Do they bring along a good book?
What would happen if a supervisor got it into his or head to discipline them for not doing the work they are paid to do?

They're probably using that time to track whingers down in the internet, so's they can send out €50,000 tax demands, or hit squads, or both.

19-03-2010 05:07PM

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Biggins · 19-03-2010 05:10PM

Lets light the torches again! Hurraa!

jethrothe2nd · 19-03-2010 05:11PM

I guess if they are on a work to rule, then technically they are still doing what they are being paid to do, so discipline would be hard to action. Not sure about go-slows. Working in the private sector, I can say straight away that neither would be tolerated

And really, what will be achieved by being on a go slow. Nothing more than to widen the already gaping chasm between themselves and those in the private sector/unemployed. Having said that, I do have some sympathy with those on the lower end of the pay scale.

chin_grin · 19-03-2010 05:14PM

Biggins wrote: »

Lets light the torches again! Hurraa!

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Biggins · 19-03-2010 05:18PM

chin_grin wrote: »

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Winonna would be proud of you!

twinytwo · 19-03-2010 05:21PM

kpbdublin wrote: »

Now that they are on go-slows and work-to-rules how are our public servants passing the time. Can they go on the internet, do they play cards, or gaze out the window? Do they bring along a good book?
What would happen if a supervisor got it into his or her head to discipline them for not doing the work they are paid to do?

you mean just like any other day of the week

NothingMan · 19-03-2010 05:23PM

Work in the private sector but am currently working on site in a public sector building and I can tell you exactly what's going on around me.

I have sent one letter and changed 1 toner cartridge all day. One girl is knitting a nice blanket, the lads are discussing the finer points of football and as far as I can see, no work is being done or needs to be done.

I don't know if it's like this cos of the action but there isn't any work to do here. It's been a loooonnnggg day. People in my company have been let go because there wasn't enough work to justify keeping them, but we know that's never gonna happen here.

chin_grin · 19-03-2010 05:24PM

Biggins wrote: »

Winonna would be proud of you!

I was thinking more along the lines of Monty Python. :pac:

Biggins · 19-03-2010 05:27PM

NothingMan wrote: »

...am currently working on site in a public sector building and I can tell you exactly what's going on around me.

I have sent one letter and changed 1 toner cartridge all day. One girl is knitting a nice blanket, the lads are discussing the finer points of football and as far as I can see, no work is being done or needs to be done.

I don't know if it's like this cos of the action but there isn't any work to do here. It's been a loooonnnggg day. People in my company have been let go because there wasn't enough work to justify keeping them, but we know that's never gonna happen here.

Admit it, your working in the government section that deals with money being handed back from TD's who claim they have too much expenses!

:pac:

kpbdublin · 19-03-2010 05:27PM

twinytwo wrote: »

you mean just like any other day of the week

No I am sure that most civil servants probably do the work that is required of them in the normal course of events. But now in the current dispute they have been told to hold back on their labours. It must be quite hard passing the time. It would be interesting to see if this go-slow produces any great novels.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 19-03-2010 05:30PM

Not this shít again.

Why single out only those in the public service OP? Jealousy? Begrudgery? :rolleyes:

NothingMan · 19-03-2010 05:34PM

Annabelle Inexpensive Grail wrote: »

Not this shít again.

Why single out only those in the public service OP? Jealousy? Begrudgery? :rolleyes:

Because the private sector isn't on a go slow or work to rule strike, and his question was:

Now that they are on go-slows and work-to-rules how are our public servants passing the time.

It's a valid point, as I said, I've had feck all to do here today and if it wasn't for boards and my iPhone ereader i'd have gone insane.

phill106 · 19-03-2010 05:36PM

Annabelle Inexpensive Grail wrote: »

Not this shít again.

Why single out only those in the public service OP? Jealousy? Begrudgery? :rolleyes:

ummm this is why... Its right up there! Look i'll quote it and everything, so go slowing public sector people wont have to scroll up, as its only in their contract to scroll down...

NothingMan wrote: »

Work in the private sector but am currently working on site in a public sector building and I can tell you exactly what's going on around me.

I have sent one letter and changed 1 toner cartridge all day. One girl is knitting a nice blanket, the lads are discussing the finer points of football and as far as I can see, no work is being done or needs to be done.

I don't know if it's like this cos of the action but there isn't any work to do here. It's been a loooonnnggg day. People in my company have been let go because there wasn't enough work to justify keeping them, but we know that's never gonna happen here.

SEPT 23 1989 · 19-03-2010 05:38PM

I wish those good folks in the Revenue would go even slower and stop sending out those horrible brown envelopes

landsleaving · 19-03-2010 05:39PM

Why would you do more than you're paid to do anyway?

This will inevitably lead to a big debate of course... sigh...

Work to live man, don't live to work :cool:

bonerm · 19-03-2010 05:40PM

What do they do when they're not on go-slows/work-to-rules?

twinytwo · 19-03-2010 05:44PM

Annabelle Inexpensive Grail wrote: »

Not this shít again.

Why single out only those in the public service OP? Jealousy? Begrudgery? :rolleyes:

well.. apart from the public sector being a joke and the fact they can hold the country to ransom .. i mean im sure that has nothing to do with it.

landsleaving · 19-03-2010 05:51PM

twinytwo wrote: »

well.. apart from the public sector being a joke and the fact they can hold the country to ransom .. i mean im sure that has nothing to do with it.

Call Mel Gibson, quick. He'll sort it out.

Jesus Wept · 19-03-2010 05:55PM

Same way as they did before they became officially idle.

ColaBeDamned · 19-03-2010 05:59PM

Biggins wrote: »

Lets light the torches again! Hurraa!

chin_grin wrote: »

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch, burnnnnnnnnnnn, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch.

Burn the witch!

ColaBeDamned · 19-03-2010 06:06PM

:pac:

mickdw · 19-03-2010 07:30PM

They do about 20 mins work in a full working day. This is from a worker in revenue. They dont bother answering phones at all. I would add though that public workers such as nurses work hard.

Chinafoot · 19-03-2010 07:37PM

Public sector worker in the libraries department of a county council. My work is exactly the same it was before. The only difference is I don't come in at 9:30 and stay until 8:30pm in order to keep the library open on the days that we're short staffed, nor do I do extra work that is the duty of the grades above me.

Work-to-rule does not mean sitting around doing nothing. It means not taking on the extra work of those who are on leave or have retired and not been replaced. The latter group is quite large at this stage thanks to the staff embargo.

clarewoman · 19-03-2010 08:01PM

as a revenue worker, we are never idle- if not answer phone dealing with correspondence or sending out demands

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 19-03-2010 08:05PM

IT's the same bullshít thread as the hundreds before, goes the same way, people bashing public sector workers because they are in the private sector, getting screwed... Funny how people blame those who benifit from working in the public sector, it's not their fault, and anybody who says they wouldn't take a job like that are talking through their arses

Not all public sector workers are on a go slow. It's not the workers you need to lynch, it's the government, the top managers and their policies that needs addressing

Odysseus · 19-03-2010 08:06PM

kpbdublin wrote: »

Now that they are on go-slows and work-to-rules how are our public servants passing the time. Can they go on the internet, do they play cards, or gaze out the window? Do they bring along a good book?
What would happen if a supervisor got it into his or her head to discipline them for not doing the work they are paid to do?

It occurs at certain times in relation to certain work. Next Thursday I will not be taking or making calls. I will be engaged in my primary therapeutic role, or if I was luckly to have a spare bit of time paperwork. Bosses would know better than to ask you to do something you have been informed by your union that you should not be doing.

stovelid · 19-03-2010 08:07PM

As a private sector worker, I can safely say that nobody ever wastes time, is inefficient or slacks off.

Never ever, like.

bcirl03 · 19-03-2010 08:12PM

Rumour has it if your caught working in the civil service you'll be sacked.....just a rumour but I'm reliably told it’s true.

how do idle civil servants pass the time?

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