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[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by Sosha

They'd be able to do a better job if they weren't paid by the ticket. What percentage of Westminster tickets get thrown out?

This used to be the case till there was a public outcry about it. Apparently there is a law that states you cannot make money off the back of fines, so all boroghs had to stop paying by the ticket or paying bonuses for the most tickets issued etc. Camden even had a car as a first prize for their wardens a few years back would you believe.

So now they just set them minimun targets to prove they were working that day, otherwise they know it would be all to easy for them to simply skive off all day and say they encountered no illegal parking at all that day on their particular route. Hence the plethora of stupid tickets issued sometimes

Yet they are paid bonuses on the number of tickets given vs the number challenged etc so its still not in their benefit to do it....but they do

Reminder. This is on now.

OMG!!!! a £1 parking fee and you get a £80 fine for a motorbike

[Sid Squid]

I am incensed!

The idiot that's the subject of the programme thinks British people are 'decadent' and his certain implication is that we are dishonest too.

'It's not how I wanted to serve the public.'

You're not serving the public you fool! You're a stooge for a greedy and irresponsible council who only see your function in monetary terms, there is absolutely no manner at all in which you're serving anyone other than Westminster, they'll put you on the front line and take the money you raise, and they clearly don't give a monkeys about how that's done.

'I empathise.'

Well all that empathising soon wore off didn't it? He now feels ashamed, oh dear, poor man. You have a job where you 'scold' people, is this for real? You want respect for that? You ought to feel ashamed. Your business is taking people's hard earned for nothing in return 'cos you can, that's it, no more, no higher purpose. And it feels worse than being pickpocketed, as we're being 'legally' mugged in a cynical exploitation of a circumstance engineered very carefully in order to raise money, however Westminster dress it up, this business exists, and only exists, to make money and there is no currency in bleating about legality or otherwise.

Derga, you're a fool.

But worse; you're an exploited fool.

Anyone wonder why Westminster are now charging for parking bikes? You have your answer; Kevin says 'we don't make any money from parking enforcement'. Yeah, right. Or maybe it should be: Damn! We raped our Golden Goose so hard it died, what will our boys do now?

On top of this the wally that's making the programme thinks WE ought to be ashamed about Derga & co's treatment. I'm speechless! This clearly is a great vantage point from which to gain a realistic picture of the British people.

OK I admit it, I'm not speechless. Not really.

But I am angry, even more now.

Glad I reminded you now Ian..!

I also wonder how many of those fools will have a job tomorrow after that programme.

I actually thought it was interesting to see how someone who was relatively intelligent, wanted to help people and had some degree of morals coped with being a Westminster traffic warden.

It showed up very clearly the disparity between the role, and in particular how it is being implemented, and the rest of humanity!

And that Derga really is a poor naive fool....

What really go me though was the bloke who hid round the corner and claimed he was being pushed into it. Noone is forcing you to do that job or shaft people even more than you usually do!! No sympathy here if he does lose his job for that...

I was shocked at the language used against the traffic wardens. Granted they are being exploited by Westminster council and others around the country. But is this really a fair way to treat any human being? The worst part was the asian shouting verbal abuse at the african warden and the warden being told by the police that nothing can be done if you are verbally abused! so get punched or stabbed and you can call for help otherwise don't bother. Don't they pay there taxes as well?

Why can't disputes be dealt with in a manner where no party is abused verbally, Mentally or physically?

[jambo]

I note my argument didn't seem to make it onto the final cut. I'm relatively sure I ended up in discussions with the thinner black guy who was doing his soho rounds at the start of the piece.

But as I didn't call him a ***** ***** ****ing ***** it clearly didn't serve their purposes to show the discussion.

I felt for Derga, I really did, he is, as Ian says an exploited fool. He came to the country with truly naive and utopian ideas about what he would find here and picked a job that would expose him to the very worst hostility of the British public. However, he failed to realise that what he was doing did not help the community, and look for another job.

I do think people have the right to work without being treated like this, but it's a relatively recent attitude, borne entirely of frustration at the situation created by the councils for their own gain.

Jambo

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Originally Posted by jambo

I do think people have the right to work without being treated like this, but it's a relatively recent attitude, borne entirely of frustration at the situation created by the councils for their own gain.

Jambo

The same could be said for said " Saftey camera's" ( Expanded over the last few years like the numbers of Traffic Wardens) at the side of roads which have an earning potential worth 20 Traffic wardens. But you don't see many people mouthing off to the police.

I'm not defending the work of traffic wardens I personally don't like the way they are not seen as somone's dad/Brother/Mother etc. Just because they wear a uniform does that give any one the right to shout them down and make them feel like the scum of the earth?