MarchHare007 
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Great photo Lesley! Lovely to see That Gown. :)
Reply #3981. Oct 21 11, 2:56 PM
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| lesley153
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Calm, calm, I am calm...
Jobs are exported, jobs are replaced by internships paying next to nothing, and wages here are replaced by dole. Employers are weeing themselves laughing as they send jobs abroad and let us pick up the bill for dole, or for boosting low pay. Whatever these people are saving must be minute compared with the cost to the country.
Glad you like it, MH. I think the look of joy and relief on their faces is worth several thousand words. |
Reply #3982. Oct 21 11, 3:30 PM
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satguru
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So first we exported our manufacturing and now our professions? I see the plan to catch up with Zimbabwe is progressing successfully, but the planners read the plan backwards as it was meant to work from Z to A, from being more like Zimbabwe to America, not the other way round. Too late now, the train's almost there.
Reply #3983. Oct 21 11, 7:19 PM
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| lesley153
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Isn't Zimbabwe a bit too sophisticated? I was thinking more Burundi, Burkina Faso, Congo, the way things are going, but Zimbabwe scores highly on being the most dangerous place to live in the world, so perhaps it deserves first place after all.
One ray of hope - we've lost call centre jobs too, but there has been a trickle back to Britain, because customers are so peeved off with talking to call centre staff who don't know what they're talking about, because they're here and the call centre is in Egypt or India.
Rambling now. Think I'll sleep it off. Night! |
Reply #3984. Oct 21 11, 7:46 PM
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MotherGoose
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"...compelled by law the pay through the nose, for something you are not getting?" *sob*
Am going through this right now at work, so I can sympathise. We are compelled by the hospital to use their cleaners and they do a really lousy job. For the first year or so, I never said anything, but lately I have started to complain on a regular basis (i.e. after every scheduled cleaning) because they've missed doing it (twice in a row, and missing the rescheduled cleaning as well), doing a lousy job, damaging the kitchen sink, unplugging medical equipment (which bears a huge sign saying "cleaners - please do not unplug the equipment), not emptying the bins...the list is endless.
On Thursday, one of our patients managed to leave a pile of sand the size of a small plate on the floor of the doctor's room. No problems, I thought, the cleaners come tonight. Walked in the next morning and the sand was still there - they'd cleaned around it. Checked that the sand was loose and easily removed (it was) and called them up to demand it be cleaned up immediately (it was).
Then in that day's mail we got a lovely letter from them saying that it had been a long time since they'd raised their rates and how lucky we are that their rates aren't that high compared to other businesses (cough, cough, choke, choke) and that they were raising the rates. I let them know that I thought their exquisite timing was matched only by their delusions of adequacy.
Reply #3985. Oct 21 11, 7:59 PM
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MarchHare007
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Definitely David. Constantly see the lights in That tunnel...:(
Sleep well Lesley. See you back tomorrow for some group rambling. :)
Mother Goose - that's attrocious!
I've had issues at work - with the previous regime - but they reacted rather smartly to a visit from OH&S when they ignored all the 'set protocol' and were forced to implement what they already should have.
Made me very unpopular with management but someone always has to be! :D
Comes down to the dollar again. The powers that be seem to think contracting out is efficient but because they don't see beyond the spreadsheet unfortunately they never know.
Two of my niece's have been contract cleaners while finishing high school and Both do an excellent job - but their boss is exacting and demands nothing less - and the boss pays them very well. The personnel turnover is high apparently because the workers actually Do have to work for their money! How disgusting..... *rolls eyes*
Pity we're on the east coast....
Reply #3986. Oct 21 11, 8:57 PM
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| lesley153
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Morning all!
*resumes rambling*
Yesterday I rang the council office and left a phone message to say that the dustbin still hadn’t been emptied, and we’d start again on Monday. This morning at half past seven, I woke up to the sound of lorry beeping, engine running, and dustbin wheels being dragged along the path. Huh? they don’t work at weekends. They do now! The little black rubbish bin had been taken from behind the big orange recycling bin, emptied, closed, and replaced within an inch of where I’d left it. (I rang the council office again and left another message - thank you for arranging it.) Calm now, till the next time.
In 1997, I was in hospital for two months, so I saw a lot of cleaners not cleaning, and pretending they couldn’t speak or read English. (They spoke immaculate English when they wanted to.) I dropped a grape, and it rolled under my bed. Jonathan was all for retrieving it, but I asked him to leave it there, to see how long it would be there for. It was there for four days. On another occasion, I had a bedside locker with a smear of blood on it. I don’t suppose they ever learnt how to clean blood off Formica.
For a while, I was on an antibiotic which needed to be measured daily, based on blood tests, so I was having blood samples taken twice a day. If cleaners came into the ward, they would usually smile and wave and sing as they mopped a zig-zag line up the centre of the ward. If I was sitting on the bed, with a wild-eyed phlebotomist struggling to get blood out of my weary veins, you could bet your life that the mop would bang into my bed... repeatedly. I haven’t kept up with the rules, but I don’t think hospitals are still compelled to accept the cheapest tender - or perhaps they are allowed to ditch a cleaning firm if it’s rubbish.
Ooh I like that - "delusions of adequacy” - one of my favourite expressions. Gets a blank look sometimes, but I don’t care!
“Made me very unpopular with management”
Bet that’s not half as unpopular as I am with the dustbinmen.
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Reply #3987. Oct 22 11, 7:55 AM
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Jazmee27
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All I have to say about the bin situation is: “Can I speak to the village idiot?”
You could write a book
What a sad, sad tale, Mother Goose-the things we’re supposed to put up with…
Lesley, you’re allowed to ramble-we all need it every now and then to let off steam, or we’ll go insane
I’m working on becoming unpopular with: (a) Comcast; (b) the administration here; and (c) maintenance)
Do your jobs, monkeys!
Reply #3988. Oct 22 11, 4:46 PM
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| lesley153
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I thought it was less village idiot and more playground idiot, because they only do their jobs properly when they're watched.
Write a book? I probably could! Actually I've probably written enough to fill a book since I started blogging here.
For now, back to venting and rambling. Or sleeping. |
Reply #3989. Oct 22 11, 7:33 PM
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Jakeroo
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You have quite a way with words, Lesley. And, as I'm rather partial to intelligent sarcasm, I'd buy your book.
Reply #3990. Oct 22 11, 10:47 PM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, Miss Jake. :)
One advance order - yippee! |
Reply #3991. Oct 23 11, 6:10 AM
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bloodandsand
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Make that two, Lesley, especially looking forward to "Merv - the early years". :)
Reply #3992. Oct 23 11, 6:58 AM
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| lesley153
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Merv? *splutter* I could fill half a book with him. *sob*
But two copies? Wow - fame and fortune beckon! |
Reply #3993. Oct 23 11, 7:05 AM
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Mommakat
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Have read the aforegoing with a touch of amusement and have to comment that it is not only cleaners who are lax in their manner in which they carry out their duties. In my mailbox on Friday was a piece of mail for an address in the next suburb about 5 miles from my home. The only similarity in the clearly typed address was the house number, and it was delivered with legitimate mail for me. I contacted the addressee by phone and he came to pick up his mail. He was not amused and intends to front up at the mail centre tomorrow as the mail concerned was extremely important. I would love to be a fly on the wall tomorrow morning.........
Reply #3994. Oct 23 11, 7:52 AM
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| lesley153
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I think you get a brownie point for bothering to phone him. A lot of people would just have underlined the address and stuck it back in the post box.
A few years ago, I found a library ticket outside my house. I phoned the owner, who lived about a mile away, and he was most disgruntled when I asked him if he'd like me to post it to him, or would he prefer to come and pick it up.
"What? Can't you drop it off at mine?"
Well actually no. I can't walk that far and I can't drive. ("Why the hell should I?" and "A thank you would be nice" were other options, but I didn't use either of them.) He did come round for it in the end, and took it with a scowl. A thank you would have been nice...
I'm pleased to hear that your contact was annoyed with the post office, and not with you. Is there any way you could be a fly on the wall? I'd pay to watch! |
Reply #3995. Oct 23 11, 8:08 AM
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honeybee4
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I agree, and have always told Lesley I envy her way with words. Can't wait for the book. Please!
Reply #3996. Oct 23 11, 8:10 AM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, Judy. *blush*
Three copies! Yay! |
Reply #3997. Oct 23 11, 8:12 AM
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satguru
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I suggested a book ages ago already! Make it four!
Reply #3998. Oct 23 11, 8:17 AM
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| lesley153
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So have a load of other people, including the teacher I helped for about eight years, my Alexander teacher, and my son, who suggested an autobiography, but I'd have to wait till everyone was dead first.
I sent another one links to all my old blogs mentioning Merv, but she said it didn't mean anything to her because she didn't know him. Actually, they have met, but she didn't know that. He said "No! Not if she was the last woman on earth!" but she didn't know that either. *shhh*
Four! |
Reply #3999. Oct 23 11, 8:57 AM
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Jazmee27
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Make that five
Reply #4000. Oct 23 11, 9:55 AM
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