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Cheers. That was up there with the worse performances I've ever seen. Looked like a Wessex league player, at best.

Was Bennett the loan signing who had a shocker on debut at home at the start of the season?

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Yep. Made no sense to me. I'm not one for buying football shirts, but given the choice I'd prefer one without a betting sponsor logo every day of the week.

Goodbye

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Choices

We beg to differ SoG. We worked in related areas of the civil service. Where I worked could have operated well with half the staff working hard and efficiently. Those staff numbers have reduced, and technology has improved. The fact that they have less staff now does not make them understaffed. The NHS is a different issue I think. There seems to be a genuine issue of insufficient staff for the number of people to be looked after.

Professional

The thing with personal experiences SoG is that we can only reliably draw on our own. My previous post addresses the staff numbers point... having less staff than you previously had doesn't mean that you don't have enough.

It's not a lazy cliche Whelk. It's a reality that I worked amongst for years. My colleagues took the piss. I took the piss. It was a slack environment. For my friends still there it's a bit tougher as staff levels are down, but their perception of being "under staffed" is bollox - it's just that they had it too easy for too long and are now having to work something like a proper shift.

Water

In the private sector we don't get time for either MLG. I bet you have a pond full of ducks and a variety of toasters at your place.

Shame. He'd have been a great signing. Proper top flight experience. Hard to see where he'd go in the prem and be a starter though. Leeds perhaps.

You're a bit defensive Whelk. I've referenced my own experience in the public sector - it's not a perception, it's reality over a number of years. To be fair, I enjoyed it. What's to dislike about study day release, study leave (all in the knowledge I'd leave afterwards of course), a few pay rises a year, being able to come in late whilst hanging, having a long pub lunch on a Friday, getting home nice and early, slacking off in the week knowing I could do weekend overtime at an enhanced rate, and a day off in lieu on top, etc, etc? Good times, but all at the tax payers expense. I've since worked in the real world of the private sector. Knowing what I now know, that place could've been run at half the cost. In my experience, and I can only refer to that, the public sector I worked in was a soft option. Turkish had a perception which is my experience of reality. I'll assume that you have no experience of both sides of the fence.

My skills are unrelated to the fact that I had colleagues who were bred in a culture where they can stroll in almost mid morning despite work piling up, have a 2 hour lunch cos they want to, go home to beat the traffic cos there's Flexi time on the clock, and all with a "the work can wait" attitude. If you've worked for a decent amount of time on both sides of the divide then I'll debate the issue with you, bit if you haven't, I can't see that you're placed to discuss it.

That's the thing, you normalise it while you're there and don't see it. I have friends who still work there and just don't understand what me and others who've left can see. Private sector is a different ball game.

Having worked in both the public and private sectors, Turkish's perception isn't wrong. People working to rule, Flexi time being enjoyed even though there was work still work to be done, mass overtime at the year end just to spend money, etc. I wouldn't employ one of my former public sector colleagues.

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Kitten

Lord Duck's favourite shirt maker.