According to the BBC:

On Planet Greece some civil servants get a bonus for turning up to work on time. Foresters get a bonus for working outdoors. At least they show up.

There are civil servants called ghost workers because they never go into the office, head to a second job and still claim a state salary. They can’t get sacked, because a civil service post is for life. Unless the incumbent decides to retire in his or her forties, with a pension.

And the government can continue paying for the afterlife. Unmarried and divorced daughters of civil servants are entitled to collect their dead parents pensions. Another lucrative sinecure is to belong to a state committee. The government has no idea how many there are.

It has been estimated that they have 10,000 employees and cost nearly £200m a year, and that includes the committee to manage a lake that dried up 80 years ago.

Last night as I was about to engage in a prolonged snuggle with my beloved I got a call from my old work, they had called the police and were unable to handle a mental health patient who was weilding a knife and marching round the property.

How, you may ask did I use my quite literally several years experience to ahem, “de-escalate” the situation?

Answer… I promised not to move his favourite chair in the kitchen inflatable combo , correctly identified it as the one on the back left of the table, describing in detail the small brown mark on the top at the back and again, promised not to move it. Inflatable Boat

Job done.

Just another ordinary day in the ordinary life of an underpaid mental health bank support worker/ community recovery worker/ community well being bank worker…

It’s a tough job, but somebo… (you know the rest)

In the beginning:

Halfway

Stop for triple coffee:

The end of the truckle:

Fried rind:

Finished:

Polystyrene tower destined for tip:

Six stare wood store added:

Breakfast the day after: toast, butter and marmalade:

Alternative breakfast: buckwheat groats.

Robert Preston says:

“Airline executives and engineers want to know why they can’t be given permission to fly at 20,000 feet, below the ash cloud, till the cloud clears.”

Indeed.

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