I work ‘with’ the public sector including the health care one all the time, and I would humbly suggest that the process does not take long to implement when there is a need. its often deliberately slow to allow for more thorough evaluation of quality whether drugs or materials… The public sector is slow by ‘choice’ not by limitation of their process in my experience
Concepts like sticking one’s balls up one’s arse?
Nah, just how to deal with those balancing whole chip shops on their shoulders…
Sounds less useful than Klingon or Media Studies. I’ll stick with coding, thanks.
In my experience the only choice is the choice of which hoop to jump through…
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It’s not really public sector. It’s “bigness”. I have worked for government but most of my experience is in the private sector, and there, I’ve worked for firms both large and small…
Bigness is a pain in the arse. Things that take forever in BigWorld get sorted immediately in SmallWorld.
Honestly, public vs private sector is a false dichotomy. I have seen places run like fiefdoms, mates clubs, secret recruiting centres for evangelical Christianity.
The big difference is the public sector is always seen as a cost, with governments racing to defer these interests to supposedly competitive private interests.
Those private interests just silently pass the cost of their dysfunction down to their customers.
Or go out of business
Big business can be cumbersome to deal with but they haven’t got carte Blanche to pass off inefficiency to their customers - at some point they become to expensive and the customers go elsewhere
Bigness 35 years ago.
Marconi, Plessey, STC, ICL Amstrad (
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They don’t have carte blanche, but they have a fuckload of wriggle room. By rights, we should be down about three or four French or German banks because they decided to lend a load of money.
Despite being utterly irresponsible lenders, they’re still about and we’re footing the bill.
Wiggle room. Some firms are never going down. That’s why we paid Serco so much for Excel.
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Apparently Pfizer jabs coming to a hospital nearby on Tuesday
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I have been trying to find the Bad News clip - “100 pints of lager and 4 poppadoms”
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The girls need their hair extensions. It is an absolute travesty they cannot get them. Must be against their human rights.
Do feel for people trying to make ends meet but this one really is quite something.
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I am getting angry at the no vaccine certificate crew.
Human rights?
Fuck right off. What about the rights of people in hospitality, tourism, F&B.
Nothing, not travel, not clubs, not proper football, nothing comes back with Covod a threat.
Nobody is forcing them to have the jab. Let them opt out of it. And post Covid society
Dont keep fvcking us over because of a David Icke post on Facebook by Karen.
And trust me. UK decide not to have covid passports? Well you wont be travelling anywhere
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I will have whatever stamps and jabs are going and will be flipping the bird to all those people who don’t as I disappear through passport control
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I have given up on the thought of a foreign holiday until at least 2022 now. Not because I don’t want a jab just because I think logistically it will be a nightmare and also I imagine holidays abroad will be at a premium and fucking expensive.
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I’m thinking more that if we have a decent summer, or for that matter spring (remember shirt-sleeves February last year?) it might be worth not flying. Ferry over to France for a week or two in Brittany or Normandy.