Working

  • Local working now needs to be a new arrangement

    The golden age of seeking other people’s jobs overseas has to stop. The new age of local people learning a trade, duty, or profession in their local area has to continue.

    This is the way up for young people, starting out at 16 or 18 and looking for a new way to live here. They will learn life lessons while they earn money and mature.

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    What does local working mean to you?

    It also builds people’s confidence, helps spread local emergency help, and develops local democracy into something real, so that its substance helps us all out here.

    The saddest demise is the lack of opportunity for the majority of people that can do it where they live. These won’t be endless openings, but it’s a backbone for us.

  • The job market in the UK needs a lot of work

    The jobs market is something that some people are proud of, but these are usually insider types. It’s not been the report given to me by those desperately seeking roles they’ve been told exist in the general labour pool only. They’ve been turned away, shouted down, and thrown out of interview rooms for a simple interview they booked online.

    It’s not just the homepage websites that advertise jobs, however, but the confusion that exists. It’s not clear if many job seekers know that jobs have to be created first and then put out for advertisement, rather than just optioned for because the business exists somewhere.

    It’s believed that 1.9 million people apply for a job at Number 10 every month for example. This is an extortionate number and it doesn’t reflect the value or the limited remit of the roles available. It shows that people don’t understand – and that the information available isn’t sufficient enough. It needs to be made clear how jobs work here.

  • London needs a clear out

    The status of London’s affairs is long overdue for a clear out. It’s clear that a lot of hangovers from the past still exist. It’s not possible to make sense of its affairs until it happens.

    It’s believed embassies of hostile states continue to hinder legal work in the city. In fact, much of their power to influence overseas is said to come from this activity.

    It’s also the case that historic guilds have members that wreak ruin over the lives of many in the city at large. They continue to be a nuisance, and a menace.

    It’s also thought that more historic institutions tied to Parliament have interfered with all its work. We still don’t know who these people are, and why they persist.

    These are changes that need to be made with urgency because as they proceed, we fail. It’s a struggle to make ways in a place that has so much pulling it apart.

  • Revealed: MI5 “Target” mistakes

    The inbuilt performance culture of every institution is open to abuse, from those who are too lazy but too powerful to the overworked and underrepresented. Those not usually calculated in are the staff who cover over their own performance.

    These are those who have a more evasive outlook on life. They overlook their own activity – and even offer to do the same for others – in order to keep up speed in the office. It results in career promotions and entitlements that aren’t deserved.

    The disgruntled feeling as other staff find out is palpable. The informant said her feelings were confused over it. She would do the same, but she figured not for that long or for that much. It was felt too much was being creamed off the top of their job.

    The perpetrator had manipulated her performance statistics to hide her oversights. An investigation showed thousands of mistakes in a few weeks, avoiding proper work and aiming to make life difficult for others. It was a case of live and let die.

  • What’s going on in Whitehall?

    It’s long been suspected military top brass in the UK have been abusing their positions. The disarray at the heart of the Civil Service is one indication that top staff are confused, if not disordered in their conduct.

    This doesn’t usually happen, and it’s amiss when it’s just about everywhere you go. There are career individuals who are struggling to make connections in Whitehall where bad advice still exists.

    In an example, a man was spotted yesterday loitering outside the gates to Downing Street. This suspect is reported to be a meddler in state affairs, even to a point of interrupting Foreign Office meetings.

    A man seen in the centre, a notorious troublemaker by reports.

    He’s extremely opinionated, a lot like the other troublemakers in Whitehall who’ve stuck around for a long time. They’re easy to spot, but governments come and go and they do nothing. It’s as if trouble is work.

    The reason for military top brass being suspected also is the widespread abuse of power even low level staff can exercise. They feel they can reorganise. They feel they’ve got more responsibility than is usual.

    The general feeling is that military brass can spread a sort of confusion at a rate and distance that staff can’t. It’s the command structure that gives added weight to a person’s words over a particular course of action.

    The rumours of discontent from the army itself are disconcerting, and beginning to leak out. There’s a belief top staff don’t do what they’re asked, or what they need to do. They’re called “shop staff” at times.

    The recruitment of civilian workers is a frequent sticking point for those who criticise the army. They don’t see the need for secular employment in a military construct. It makes the service seem like work to some.