uncivilcivilservant

Reply to welcome back to the funny farm in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Whoopee its finally happened, one of my zillions of applications has resulted in me getting promoted - I guess I better stop maligning management as pretty soon I'll become one. Heaven forbid, if I stop asking and challenging you all better kick me in the *r*e. The bonus is we now have a reason to go out and celebrate. Wonder how quickly time will pass till I can escape the clutches of this place and reside and work in an area populated by normal hu

welcome back to the funny farm in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well I'm back at the Funny Farm having had my couple of months playing with the PDA a couple of weeks holiday I find myself back here. What a drag! As usual I've just had an interview for another job and I'm waiting for the answer. Sickeningly enough the PDA team is still ongoing and one of the folk I trained is sitting pretty, whilst I'm back here. Same old crap

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We are all having to fill in call sheets detailing who called and how we logged it at the moment! Each sheet is then checked via database and CMS to check you are telling the truth! And we all have new stickers on our computers stating - Have I Logged this Call????????! They have now decided that due to the number of people who have moved sections recently the rotas are not working at lunchtime, and have started to complain that people are going fo

Reply to Welcome to the funny farm in Welcome JoeUser Forums

another bright day in the PDA, still waiting for the results of my last interview, about a week ago now. They promised an answer by the next day. Things don't change. Had a visit yest from an upstairs pal, she was not a happy bunny. Her visit coincided with another prattish email from you know who in the corner. Incorrect gudance issued and corrected by us to have still more incorrect guidance issued. She clearly doesn't understand what shes doing

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Well here we are in the mystical PDA team. I'm now told this is the single most important high profile thing going on in the centre! Kinda like they told us when we opened the call centre??? All I know is that it is bloody hard work and boringggggg! Trying to keep a check on some 12 AA's who only seem interested in fiddling their flexi, checking that the HRBP's know what they're doing with the stuff they send in, we know all about how much HRBP's k

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add on to the rest. Now we have just got back the sift reports from our attempts to get promotion. What a joke, we are supposed to be using a competency based system as it ensures a greater level of consistancy and fairness in appointments. IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS!!! It so happens I sent off two different application but they has several mirrored competencies, scored by my lIne manager from 3-4(out 0f 5) the sifters returned them from the first appl

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Thanks for the extra input nice to see things going from bad to worse. The magic LM has been out all morning so far, no buddies till 11am so yet again you know where the load falls! And we're daft to enough to pick it up. Theres some more vacancies showing on the Inet today, about bloody time. Also sent that last piece of daftness about not going out in your breaks, to the union, see what they've got to say. I don't think it stacks up, they don't

Welcome to the funny farm in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Its another gr8 day. More staff joining all the time(so much for the 40000 that are going before 2008).Wouldn't be so bad if the work load had picked up, theres still only about enuf for 10!!! Shouldn't moan I spose, but I'm a tax payer too! Wonder if this is another version of 'BIG BROTHER' see what happens when you collect a load of people together and give them

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nice little set of observations. Trust me whilst you're studying you can find the time and the cash to play too. Once you have to go into the outside world fully then thats it, home, family, responsibility where did all the opportunity for fun go? All we have left is the BLOG. It keeps us sane it gives us an outlet it enables us to tell the outside world whats going on without owning up.

Reply to Welcome to the funny farm in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Know what you mean, some are really good but most seem to be so far up their own a*** they cant see the daylight. Probably why they spend all their time tucked up in little corners with their backs to the masses. Would be better too if they didn't pretend to know what they were doing. In at 7:45 out at 15:15 be interesting to check how many words were actually spoken to the staff in a normal day. Certainly the normal human pleasantries seem to be mi