Super-Twat

[Mr Larrington]

One Jonathan Jones notes that:

“But … almost no civil servants have fixed desks … so he won’t know who he was ‘visiting’, where they were, or who they are if he ‘sees them in the office’”.

Ergo Grease-Smugg is an even more Superior Twat than previously suspected.

[Polar Bear]

So in other words it's just another cynical, nasty publicity stunt playing to the radicalised fascist supporters of the cabal.

[Canardly]

Anyone heard him come up with a Brexit opportunity yet? Exports are down 10% on 2019.
https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/brexit-is-now-coming-home-to-roost-for-boriss-britain-41578795.html

[Beardy]

Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiencies if you don’t mind. He’s setting his sights on the DVLA, amongst others, as not fit for purpose.

[TheLurker]

He’s setting his sights on ... as not fit for purpose.

Matthew 7:5 applies?  Or mebbe pot & kettle?

[Mr Larrington]

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that the Heil on Sunday has published yet another piece of misogynistic stool-water.  It carries the byline of the foul rag's political editor Glen Owen who, in addition to be the latest addition to the S-T pantheon,

has a prolapsed sphincter where most people have a chin.

[rr]

Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiencies if you don’t mind. He’s setting his sights on the DVLA, amongst others, as not fit for purpose.

Or as some wag pointed out on twitter: BOGEy

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[rr]

One Jonathan Jones notes that:

“But … almost no civil servants have fixed desks … so he won’t know who he was ‘visiting’, where they were, or who they are if he ‘sees them in the office’”.

Ergo Grease-Smugg is an even more Superior Twat than previously suspected.

Also there is a clear desk policy, rigorously enforced.
Written warning for the haunted pencil.

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[Polar Bear]

What we need is all the civil servants who work in the "estate" from time to time to drop by Smugg's office and leave a similar note but stating that he should make an appointment as they are incredibly busy with the spaghetti of government policy to deal with.

[Mr Larrington]

Mr Speaker is to call in the editor of the Fail on Sunday for a stern talking-to

[cygnet]

Oh No. The figurehead who's never demonstrated control of parliamentary "decency" is asking part of the media to explain itself. Murdoch et al must be quivering in their boots.

[Polar Bear]

Mr Speaker is to call in the editor of the Fail on Sunday for a stern talking-to

More likely drinkies in the taxpayer-subsidised bar and a few juicy morsels of gossip.

[Mr Larrington]

Mmmm.  Not convinced by this new Mr Speaker.  John Bercow would have had the Heil bloke executed for sorcery or something.

[Canardly]

Mr Speaker is to call in the editor of the Fail on Sunday for a stern talking-to

More likely drinkies in the taxpayer-subsidised bar and a few juicy morsels of gossip.

Known in the Civil Service as death by sticky bun.

[ElyDave]

Apparently said editor told Mr Speaker where he could go and shove it

[rr]

What we need is all the civil servants who work in the "estate" from time to time to drop by Smugg's office and leave a similar note but stating that he should make an appointment as they are incredibly busy with the spaghetti of government policy to deal with.

I think I'm going to suggest all turning up at the office on the same day as a form of industrial action.

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[ian]

I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.

These idiots don't like facts.

My last workplace. Productivity was up, during lockdown. Serious risk of burnout from some people, which we monitored and tried to ensure people took time off. But productivity was up.

End of lockdown in sight (light at end of tunnel, but remember that Metallica song), "We want everyone back in the office.".

Muggins has moved to other end of the country by this time "We really don't think you can do your job remotely" (but productivity is up). So I leave. Cue wails of distress. 

[ian]

Indeed. I'm fortunate to work for a company that has embraced hybrid working – we have offices for those who want them, but there's no compulsion. The main concern in practice isn't people doing too little work, indeed it's that they do too much, so something management need to keep tabs on. It's also great for hiring, since I'm only limited by where we have the business logistics (legal, payroll etc.)

There are certainly some challenges, but honestly, these dinosaurs who evidently believe people only work if they're wearing a tie and chained to the desk. It also makes watching porn at work a lot less risky. You'd think they'd be celebrating that benefit at the mo.

My wife's company, on the other hand, is trying to force people back to the office at least for a few days a week – cue exodus of their most experienced staff and a recruitment crisis.

[Beardy]

Recalling all the home workers back to the office , by formal change of contracts, was used by my company as a bullying tactic to get people to leave. This was about 2 years before the pandemic and many of the home workers concerned had over ten years¹ of home working under their belt. The offer of generous leavers package² saw a lot of the older, more experienced (and more expensive) folk leave, so triple gins all round in HR. They tried to reduce the exodus of the brightest and the best youngsters by refusing their applications for the package, but many of them saw the company they were working for in its true colours and left anyway.

1. I had 18 years of home working. If I’d known that the pandemic was coming I might have tried to tough it out a bit.

2. BT had a no compulsory redundancy policy. I don’t know if it still exists.

[Mr Larrington]

I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.

Mine took fifteen days.  Part of me* thinks the delays are mostly happening to members of the lumpengammonariat who failed to read the instructions.

* My inner Crashing Snob, obv.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I briefly heard some buffoon (no idea, I think there's a standard model they roll out for these sorts of comments) on the radio yesterday lamenting that it was all down to passport office workers doing their jobs from home.

Mine took fifteen days.  Part of me* thinks the delays are mostly happening to members of the lumpengammonariat who failed to read the instructions.

* My inner Crashing Snob, obv.

Erm, I have to disagree with you.

Last time I renewed my passport, I had endless problems with the computer rejecting my photo. 'Background too dark'.

then 'not enough contrast between background and subject'.
Well, if you insist that the background is pale, then the subject is a bloke with long grey hair and a grey beard, there won't BE a lot of contrast!  Had to resolve by appealing to speak to a human - who saw sense and overrode the computer.

That took a fair bit of wrangling. Someone not used to finagling bureaucracy would really struggle.

[Mr Larrington]

Those new-fangled photo booths with a hotline to the pisspot office *ought* to take care of that.  Leastways the use of one didn’t cause any problem for this long-haired greybeard.

[ian]

I did the turn up at the office things for an interview, which turned out to be someone sliding me a passport under the counter glass and shooing me off. I am sure the last time there was actual face-to-face contact with a human who asked me a few questions. I don't think there were words this time, just an exchange of confirmation number and passport.

As mentioned, the passport they gave me was so shoddy it got stuck in the first machine reader it encountered and now the laminated page is bent and torn. The remedy, they cheerlessly advised me, was that I pay for a new one.

[Mr Larrington]

You'd think that since some mid-echelon Super-Twat decided to have the printing shifted to Poland turnaround would be quick… er, hang on!  Presumably the bass boat office has a Special Photocopier for the people who fork out for the while-you-wait service.