Forum Topic

'Gizza job....'

Anyone else see the wonderfully titled job advertised by the bergers of Hounslow for a 'Nappy Outreach Worker'circa £25,000 p.a of our hard earned money...and they wonder why we laugh at their missives and decisions!The main task of this job is to promote the use of towelling nappies over the use of disposable ones,a practise that recent surveys have shown has little or no environmental benefit.Wouldn't it be cheaper and more practical to give each new mother a couple of dozen nappies and a big box of washing powder and a leaflet explaining the situation to them?

Keith Iddon ● 7277d8 Comments

Cheers for the lesson, David. I'll probably stick to the lovely English language as she is writ in future.After all,what would I do with the half a second I save by abbreviating what I want to say?:-)

Keith Iddon ● 7275d

ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing BTW - have you noticed how little interest your initial post generated.  I think all of us who have time to view the forum must on one of these artificial job creation schemes and just wish that this thread would go away.Just to wind things up further, did you see this in yesterdays paper?".......snip.......... web addresses that end in .gov.uk. Dotgovs are only the most visible home pages of government on the web.  Many public bodies run .com sites, partly because they wanted to look trendy back in 1999 but mainly to make it more difficult to see how many sites they controlled (not to mention thousands of state-funded bodies inhabiting .ac.uk and other domains.) To the world outside government, the proliferation of state-run web sites, each with its own team of editors, content managers and hosting arrangements, is a massive sitting target.  It is evidence that the state has squandered billions invested in e-government by creating a new layer of public administration and an e-rocracy of thousands of taxpayer-funded jobs."

David Johnson ● 7275d

YLM(You've lost me!)

Keith Iddon ● 7275d

ROTFL

David Johnson ● 7275d

CFN  ;-)

Keith Iddon ● 7276d

Hi Keith, BTW is what is known as a TLA which is itself a TLA -  Three Letter Acronym (BTW = by the way).You might like to browse  http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/

David Johnson ● 7276d

Beggars belief,doesn't it David?Jobs to justify the existence of those that do them,all at public expense with no way of measuring the success of the projects.What a complete waste and insult to everyone who pays tax/council tax.It's almost like there is a secret mafia style society that purloins public money and invents jobs like this so that councillors can feel like they're doing something about a perceived problem so that they can feel good about themselves.PS.What does BTW denote?:-)

Keith Iddon ● 7276d

If I hadn’t heard this from “the horse’s mouth” I wouldn’t have believed it.18 months ago, the girlfriend of a friend accepted a job as a “Five-a-Day Co-ordinator”.  She was a trained in nutrition and looked forward to helping people to understand the benefits of fruit and vegetables in our diet.During the first week, she was not surprised to find that she and the rest of “the team” sat in a meeting room and discussed ways of promoting the concept of eating five portions of fruit/veg per day.However, she is surprised to find that the job hasn’t changed.18 month later the team (if they want, attendance isn’t compulsory) sit in the meeting room discussing ways of promoting the concept of eating 5 portions of fruit/veg per day.In 18 months nobody has *done* anything, not even produced copy for a brochure.BTW if you want to pop down to your newsagent today, the Guardian includes a free supplement with another 98 pages of similar “jobs”.

David Johnson ● 7276d