tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post8471748838891768379..comments2023-08-10T12:55:23.427+01:00Comments on SUBROSA: Transparency at Worksubrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-91245805073514848002011-01-10T21:11:11.895+00:002011-01-10T21:11:11.895+00:00And they're very well paid for it Joe believe ...And they're very well paid for it Joe believe me. None of them do unpaid overtime and I know that from experience of them.<br /><br />No Joe, the directive is correct but it was stupid to put it on a public site. Most BBC people do dictate their hours.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-27214770271816641442011-01-10T21:08:31.155+00:002011-01-10T21:08:31.155+00:00Edward, you lovely man. If the BBC can't chec...Edward, you lovely man. If the BBC can't check their public information who can? They're paid a fortune to do so.<br /><br />Lovely story by the way. It's great to know that folk believed in others in those days - even it is was to their disadvantage.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-47600675848107644412011-01-10T21:06:38.333+00:002011-01-10T21:06:38.333+00:00Somehow Dioclese I'm your side of the fence wi...Somehow Dioclese I'm your side of the fence with this one.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-87193788521743071862011-01-10T17:02:42.665+00:002011-01-10T17:02:42.665+00:00I agree with ES's opening statement.
For all ...I agree with ES's opening statement.<br /><br />For all the criticism the BBC receives, it, along with many other public & private organisations do have individuals who put in many more than their contracted hours.<br /><br />However that working-hours directive could have been better-worded to make clear it refers only to those hours above the contracted minimums.Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-35964252302608468392011-01-10T15:08:30.192+00:002011-01-10T15:08:30.192+00:00Nothing really sinister on this occasion, I think....Nothing really sinister on this occasion, I think.Circulars do get repeated without checking, especially (but not only) in public service institutions.<br /><br />Reminds me of the Post Office back in the Seventies. We had a chap in our office very friendly with a postman who received a duplicated circular about the need for Winter maintenance of Bicycles. One clause read<br /><br />"The wick of the lamp must be kept properly trimmed at all times".<br /><br />I would not have believed it, if I hadn't seen it.<br /><br />Also, I heard of a firm of stationers who supplied Dartmouth Naval College with a special size of paper, known as "gangway paper". They were changing to new machines which would not be amble to produce this size which was a narrower version of foolscap. <br /><br />The college checked why the special size was being ordered. It went back to the days when the college had been the hulk of a ship and the only place for storing the stationery was a cupboard in a gangway which was too narrow for ordinary paper. In spite of all the buildings ashore, they had gone on ordering the special size of paper - probably for a century, if I recall correctly.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-65985899293666326202011-01-10T09:52:32.433+00:002011-01-10T09:52:32.433+00:00Confirms what I always suspected - these things ar...Confirms what I always suspected - these things are rigged in advance!Dioclesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139646438543954337noreply@blogger.com