Nigel did well..

[Seafarer1966]

Old Fish Face (that great big gawping mouth) was an international financier before he entered politics. He was a stooge put up there by the big finance boys when he was doing the Brexit thing. Now we're out of the EU we're getting royally reamed in every orifice because the UK is no longer in a position of power with the EU behind us. I was on holiday in Kuala Lumpur just before Brexit and talking to some British banking types in a bar. Nice enough blokes but they said they were waiting for Brexit so that international business could go in for the kill once Britain was on its own. And the funniest bit?.........I voted for Brexit. Farage is a stooge....conman....fraudster......flim-flam man (one of my dear old grandad's phrases)......

 

[ajohn]

He's currently taking the mickey out of Starmer. Reading his notes too often. Great show of throwing out hecklers too - for practice and also useful.

 

[Mottie]

Mrs mottie works for the NHS on the administrative side. The waste and incompetence she sees on a daily basis beggars belief. It just wouldn’t happen in the private sector.

Employees were offered voluntarily redundancy at Mrs Motties small hospital, presumably to save money. One woman in Mrs Motties office took it. Redundancy, remember, to save money. They’ve agreed her compensation package and finish date and given her a £400 allowance to consult a legal specialist if she wants………..and they are now advertising for her replacement. You couldn’t make it up.

 

[securespark]

Companies do that all the time.

They rehire at lower rates.

 

[Mottie]

Companies do that all the time.

They rehire at lower rates.

I thought though that with redundancies, it was the job that was made redundant, not the person?

 

[securespark]

Oh, I see what you mean. Don't know!

 

[Brigadier]

I thought though that with redundancies, it was the job that was made redundant, not the person?

Correct.

If they've made that error, surely there's going to be a hell of a claim - NHS being a huge organisation, and this unlikely to be the only occurrence - at some point?

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I would guess theres more to it than we've been told about

 

[Mottie]

Correct.

If they've made that error, surely there's going to be a hell of a claim - NHS being a huge organisation, and this unlikely to be the only occurrence - at some point?

Part of the redundancy deal is that she is not allowed to work for the NHS…..for 30 days after her leaving date! It really wouldn’t surprise me if she came back to her old job. We were talking to a retired NHS manager on holiday last week and talking about this. He said a few years ago he was told to apply for his own job and he refused. Because he wouldn’t apply, they moved him sideways but the person that replaced him was useless and couldn’t do the job so he was asked to come back to his old job, which he accepted!

 

[fillyboy]

Part of the redundancy deal is that she is not allowed to work for the NHS…..for 30 days after her leaving date! It really wouldn’t surprise me if she came back to her old job.

Her old job may have a different description to get around the rules.

 

[Mottie]

Her old job may have a different description to get around the rules.

Possibly, as well as a reduced salary and pension etc.

 

[blup]

Fairly common to split a job between different people to get rid of someone, its still technically redundancy. In industry they just sack you and pay over the odds to settle. The public sector doesnt generally do that.