What is the world coming to?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Depends on the sort of work, when we had nothing to do at fabricators we would sit drinking tea. When I was working with my mate who recovers cars we would drink tea and play cards waiting for a call.

No calls to attend? What they supposed to do, sit in van looking officious?

Mate .... there is rarely no work to do ..... in any business or organisation .... they don't run themselves .... there's only no work to do if you don't look for it, or care enough to find it ...

I'm not saying I'm perfect (sat here on the internet) .... but thats not a valid excuse IMO ....

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

No comment!

Pete

PS, bet that Super is up for a promotion now!

Is that because your 'brief' told you to say no comment throughout the interview Pete

I may have to read the special caution in these circumstances

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Depends on the sort of work, when we had nothing to do at fabricators we would sit drinking tea. When I was working with my mate who recovers cars we would drink tea and play cards waiting for a call.

No calls to attend? What they supposed to do, sit in van looking officious?

Yeah, and dish out tickets to people speeding or not wearing seatbelts or other similar traffic offences so that people can the moan that the Police have nothing better to do.

A lot of Police work is reactive. yes, there are proactive things that can be done but again, that tends to be traffic work.

Perhaps it wasn't the best thought out idea in the world but if there were a group of guys sledging and the cops have joined in then it makes the group of guys think that not all cops are power mad idiots.

I personally wouldn't have done it but jeez, I would imagine the were doing it for all of 10 minutes....call it a refreshment break (yes, those things that every working person in the UK is SUPPOSED to get but that we VERY RARELY do cos we are too busy)

Harmless fun. Yes they were on duty and yes they used police quipment. But nobody failed to answer a 999 call, I am guessing that theydid all their clerking/formfilling on time, nobody got hurt and nobody lost any money.

So what's the problem?

Superintendent Murray is a boring old fart.

Originally Posted by Ed

Harmless fun. Yes they were on duty and yes they used police quipment. But nobody failed to answer a 999 call, I am guessing that theydid all their clerking/formfilling on time, nobody got hurt and nobody lost any money.

So what's the problem?

Superintendent Murray is a boring old fart.

You hit the nail on the head with your bold text

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A bit of fun, bit of public relations, showing the "human side of the police force" all well and good and I have no problem with that.

But if I got caught skiving off work when I was supposed to be working, by sliding down a hill on a server lid, bet your bottom dollar my boss would have given me a talking to, just like theirs did.

[Biker Biggles]

Oh dear oh dear I despair of this country sometimes.Management----the real British disease shows its ugly head as usual.When will those who purport to be leaders of men and women learn that a happy workforce is so much more productive than one led by humourless miseries with their self important heads stuck firmly where the sun never ventures?
I could swear,but I respect the rules and wont.

Originally Posted by LK-SV

Forgive me for thinking that you get paid to work ...

So when your at work its every minute of everyday-aye right

Work hard ... play hard ... thats how it works down here anyway ....

care to expand on that-

Like Speedplay .... as a Manager, maybe I see things differently ..

as you inform us that your a manager -i'd expect that you'd be aware that the team that gets on together and shares a laugh are by far more productive than the team that doesn't-

you've still to tell me how you want coppers to speak to the criminals

[yorkie_chris]

Heh, one bar job I had manager completely understood and joined in with the official sports of shooting each other with the soda dispenser and ice-cube-down-shirt attacks. Because she knew the last manager had been an officious front bottom and had managed to get the staff devoting most of their working hours to making him look silly.

Originally Posted by husky03

as you inform us that your a manager -i'd expect that you'd be aware that the team that gets on together and shares a laugh are by far more productive than the team that doesn't-

Yes that is true and I am all for having a happy workforce (it makes life a lot easier for one thing).

I get on very well with all the lads I work with and appreciate all their efforts too.

I can't speak for others but in the enviroment that I work in, everyone is required to have an enduction before being allowed on site.

In the enduction it states "Do not endulge in dangerous horseplay".

This is for the safety of others and themselves.

What the workforce do in their own time is up to them (as long as it doesnt affect the work enviroment, Drink/drugs etc).

The officers in the clip, were clearly on work time and not their own.

As I have posted further up in the thread, I know its just a bunch of lads having a laugh, but they are not on their own time.

"There is a time and place for everything" and all that..