Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by Toooldtodie

It was Monday.
It just needs to go away and not happen again!

I'll agree with that.
Rubbish day at work. I got all the crap jobs to do and nothing completed to show for it at the end of the day as they were all such convoluted pains. Everyone else had the easy jobs, steamed through them and looked really good for work turnover on the timekeeping system we use.
I came out having done the most work and stress, looking the worst.

[garynortheast]

Strimming the wilderness on the bank behind the house. Well covered with overalls, gloves, helmet, visor and ear defenders but still ended up with a splat of hogweed sap on my lower lip, which has now blown up with a huge blister. Quick trip to the doctor and, half a dozen steroid tablets later I now have to wait for it to go down.

[shiftin_gear98]

Hope it does quickly.

[Sir Trev]

Not only has some roadworks popped up on my route to work but the temporary traffic lights were on the blink. Oh the queues....! That means I'll have to set off early in the morning and skipping breakfast so I can brave the Oxford ring road before it becomes a gridlocked hell.

[Chris_SVS]

Getting up for work this morning.

SMOTD: It's only for 2 days then off again for a week

[admin]

Pip assessment yesterday for my wife. What a waste of time. The assessor asked the same questions as on the form we filled in. I can understand a visit to check people are not faking, so why bother with the form? I hate to think what all this costing the government.

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[maviczap]

Originally Posted by admin

Pip assessment yesterday for my wife. What a waste of time. The assessor asked the same questions as on the form we filled in. I can understand a visit to check people are not faking, so why bother with the form? I hate to think what all this costing the government.

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Not good, but typical of current government practice, everything has been farmed out, even our departments external recruiting interview process has an external company providing an interviewer.

What you should be saying is not what it's costing the government, but what it's costing you as a tax payer.

[admin]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Not good, but typical of current government practice, everything has been farmed out, even our departments external recruiting interview process has an external company providing an interviewer.



What you should be saying is not what it's costing the government, but what it's costing you as a tax payer.

Indeed.

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[Bibio]

Originally Posted by admin

Pip assessment yesterday for my wife. What a waste of time. The assessor asked the same questions as on the form we filled in. I can understand a visit to check people are not faking, so why bother with the form? I hate to think what all this costing the government.

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its saved the public billions in taxpayers money.

the assessment also involves a small physical but in your wife's case i would hazard a guess the assessor must have deemed it not necessary. the questions are a sort of "test" to see if your lying on what you put down on the form as most people go to their local CAB office or get a friend to fill it in so come interview time they cant remember what they had filled in on the form. the face to face is also to stop people using doppelgänger's as such.

its got a lot of "chancers" off the claim for which the public dont have to pay them.

i recently got awarded PIP due to my health. so i would say your wife has nothing to worry about.

think of it this way, by doing what the government have done it has created jobs (clerical staff for the whole process) for those that want to work and made it harder for those that dont. the money the public have saved goes to the workers/companies doing the assessments so technically there is no saving but each member of staff or company still has to pay "tax" so the government get a portion of it all back and round and round it goes keeping people employed.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Bibio

its saved the public billions in taxpayers money.

the assessment also involves a small physical but in your wife's case i would hazard a guess the assessor must have deemed it not necessary. the questions are a sort of "test" to see if your lying on what you put down on the form as most people go to their local CAB office or get a friend to fill it in so come interview time they cant remember what they had filled in on the form. the face to face is also to stop people using doppelgänger's as such.

its got a lot of "chancers" off the claim for which the public dont have to pay them.

i recently got awarded PIP due to my health. so i would say your wife has nothing to worry about.

think of it this way, by doing what the government have done it has created jobs (clerical staff for the whole process) for those that want to work and made it harder for those that dont. the money the public have saved goes to the workers/companies doing the assessments so technically there is no saving but each member of staff or company still has to pay "tax" so the government get a portion of it all back and round and round it goes keeping people employed.

I hadn't thought about it that way. So maybe there are some winners.
My concerns are that these things are target driven and the assessors probably have to hit these.
Another thing that concerns me is that they try to work out what my wife can or can't do via a proforma form with generic questions. But at no point do they ask how much do I have to do to help her. I hate to think how she'd cope if I want around.

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