My company shut down!!

rapid64k

rapid64k

rapid64k

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Well my firm closed its doors the other week and I cannot remember the last time I have been without work.
I rang my council to ask were do i stand with payments to the council tax, they said they will send me a form to fill out (I still have to go and find out were to sign on mind you more forms i guess).
well the form turn up............... flipping 47 pages :eek:!!!!what the heck is that all about?
47 pages to say that i am now unemployed!!! come on i still got to fill out more gumph when i reach the signing on place.
 
rapid64k said:
come on i still got to fill out more gumph when i reach the signing on place.
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You'd think. Walk in, tell them you want to sign on and they'll hand you a tiny card with a phone number. Phone the number and someone (being paid) will read the form out to you so you can answer and at some point in future you'll get something to sign confirming it's all correct (usually the first time you sign on) Which it isn't because that would be too simple.
 
I feel your pain mate. I've been summoned to court twice now over council tax (not that I ever turned up) because they are slow to process my student status in every new house I move into.
Anything government run needs a lot of paperwork to justify their jobs and for something for them to blame when they can't do their job properly. ;)
 
Dolph said:
And we have no choice but to pay for their ridiculously pointless jobs.
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Yes but the civil servants have to compile statistics which the government and dare I say "taxpayer" loves to read about and have to hand just incase someone might ask.

True story!
 
jas72 said:
Yes but the civil servants have to compile statistics which the government and dare I say "taxpayer" loves to read about and have to hand just incase someone might ask.

True story!
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Meh. All these statistics are a waste of time, just creates knee-jerk policy reactions to potentially anomalous data.

I think it's Hong Kong where they do not collect and release data anywhere near as regularly as we do purely for this reason.
 
Theophany said:
Meh. All these statistics are a waste of time, just creates knee-jerk policy reactions to potentially anomalous data.

I think it's Hong Kong where they do not collect and release data anywhere near as regularly as we do purely for this reason.
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I hear you and most civil servants feel the same but governments love them and you only have to read the papers when it's quoted that the government might not know some figures it becomes front page news. It is front page news because people love to read about it. Thus it's people that demand these statistics but don't think that they have to be compiled by someone.
 
Those forms are crazy. They only want to know everything about everything (this includes people you live with, not only partners) for the last "almost since you were born".

Good luck getting another job.
 
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