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No surprise at all, I hear of workers at Social Security being ordered to carry forward work till the following week so that they will have something to do next week.

It seems to be a mess from top to bottom and needs a total review of working practices, time and motion studies etc.

Here’s an idea. Give each head of department a substantial bonus scheme over the next 3 years based on total cost savings without any deterioration in service. The net benefit of that will be felt for many years. Call it an investment. Easy to say that they shouldn’t get a bonus just for doing their job, but that’s just not enough to make it happen.

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Two PSW brothers at HSSD describing to me the waste and sloth there.

One sister – a nurse – ditto.

A very good friend at Income Tax – you really dont want to know what is going on there.

My wife did a number of weeks in Admin at HSSD – complete chaos.

A colleague is a new intake deputy who is pulling his hair out.

I deal with T&R on a regular basis and am aware of the depair of staff especially with the chaos that SAP is creating.

Just relating what I hear and experience.

I also am fully aware of the difference between a CS and a PSW – my own family tell me often – with feeling.

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there is a saying , ” prevention is better than cure ” in the case of GSY i think we are way past the prevention stage

i imagine ISLAND WIDE VOTING – whoeevr he or she ( or it ) may be . has the best interests of Guern at heart however may never have had the opportunity to get off island and thus has nothign to compare to …

how about forget island wide voting
how about rather than 49 states members …
lets get rid of 42 of them and have 7 with the correct and required skills

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Come visit Guernsey – more expensive to fly to from the UK than say Barcalona or Florence, the weather on a par with the scottish highlands, some reasonable nightlife and restaurants ( if you can avoid the chavish local lowlifes who get paraletic drunk and behave like utter feral scum – oh and you may struggle to get a taxi home as there are no mimi cab firms operating and taxi’s are at a premium both in availability and cost)

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I believe Guernsey Tourism is advertising for a Director of operations

Might suit you down to the ground ?

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Bring back the good old days,or are they lost forever ?

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i think GSY has had it too good for too long – ( punched well above its weight) all you have to do is walk around our tiny island and see fat middle aged plums driving Aston Martins ( who in their right mind would buy and drive an Aston Martin in an island where there is not only a 35 mph speed limited but roads that are geared up for a horse and cart at best -answer fat directors of finance companies who think they are 007 but in reality they are more like Mr Bean meets Ronald Macdonald)-so you see these fat ugly bald self important idiots alongside groups of ( sorry they are local to be entitled for the benefits they demand) acne ridden “CHAVS” pushing prams, smoking cigarettes, spitting on passers by, swearing like Millwall away at West Ham, dress sense of Jimmy Saville and no wish to give anything to society.
2013 and will be interesting

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There are a lot of islanders (some of my good friends in fact) do seem to have a champagne taste on a beer budget and the tripe that these magazines print certainly fuels this. I suppose these magazines are not unique to Guernsey.

I just have an issue with the exaulted position people in finance have in the local media. Why doesn’t these magazines have interviews with nurses, care workers, bin men etc i.e. people at the coal face who make the more valuable contribution to the island than finance.

And the funny thing is, I work in the local finance industry – I do my blessings that I have a good job, but sometimes, it’s a pretty soulless industry. I think it was Henry Ford that said “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business”.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Guernsey and will be the first to defend it from any criticism, but the island I was born and grew up in has changed rapidly in the last 10 – 15 years and not for the better.

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My suspicion is a fair proportion of people living these lifestyles are mortgaged to the hilt and up to their eyeballs in other debt. I fear for those people – they are living an illusion and acting like ostriches.

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Final thought = There is no wealth but life.

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We did vote for change though – a Sarnia Spring except we have the Winter of discontent.

We can change our deputies but we have Civil Servants for life.

The new intake are trying their best but they are fighting the CS and many of the old politburo.

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