Southwark Council Wasting Money again

[PeckhamRose]

Send us your examples.

Here's a few of mine:

1) They bang on about recycling but send you your communications in window envelopes which they say they can't recycle.

2) They sent me consultation papers asking for opinions on a cycle lane on the SE15 east side of Peckham Rye 4 years ago. Must have cost them a lot to ask people's opinions when they probably had their minds set anyway, but guess what. Nothing happened anyway. Today got sent another set of consultation papers and they said that last time nothing happened because they ran out of money. a) wouldn't it be best to send out consultation papers AFTER they're sure they have the money and b) maybe the cost of sending out consultation papers is WHy they ran out of money.

3) They have built a whole load of well built garages on our estate but have done nothing to advertise them for rent at ?9.38 a week each. Call Jason Huggins on 020 7525 5000 (yes, call centre) and ask him if you're interested.

Your turn.

[Keef]

Sorry to be picky, but you can rip the window out of the envelope and recycle the rest.

[Ted Max]

You're really pushing the envelope there, Keef.

[Maurice]

Two words: Southwark Life

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Executive officers salaries

[Maurice]

I'm not opposed to the salaries. We need to attract good talent in a competitive market.

[downsouth]

Just be thankful you're not in Lambeth borough. Now that's real waste...

[Keef]

Ditto Greenwich to be frank.

[cdonline]

I am no particular supporter of the Council, but the examples given are hardly examples of large scale incompetence.

Southwark still has many social problems: poor public housing, poverty, violence that all impact on the level of service they need to provide.

They may fail to advertise garages and leave consultation papers on cycle lanes to rot. maybe they have more pressing concerns.

[PeckhamRose]

Oh there are plenty of other examples, I was just starting a ball rolling but it's hit another traffic angering roadhump! (They dont calm traffic!)

Of COURSE one can rip the plastic bits out of envelopes, and I do. But they're more expensive and they put stickers on top of the envelopes a lot of the time anyway.

And we do need to attract good talent in a competitive market but the quality of some of the staffe beggars belief. Sheer stupidity seems to be a necessary quality to get jobs there. One of the housing officers at Bournemouth Road recently told me that Kim Humphries has changed things so that a qualified experienced housing officer now can't even raise repairs on anything. And none of the workers are allowed to personalise their offices. I had to go to registry office recently and the officers aren't allowed to put pictures on the walls or photos on their desks. It's awful. Why would anyone want to work in those circumstances. So those that put up with it deserve respect of course. But so many of their colleagues are really - well - incompetant.

Yeah - Southwark Life! There's even a magazine called SE15 - what a waste. So untruthful. But like Notting Hill the film was about Notting Hill. Totally unrealistic about Notting Hill!!

Back to bed.. back to reality. Who wrote that?

[downsouth]

You can't personalise your office at my work place even - it's not that big a deal. We have plant policies too - only company plants. At least I get to go home at 530/6 everyday, except for today...