tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post7242559652415612879..comments2023-11-25T01:12:34.326+00:00Comments on Benefit Scrounging Scum: The 'Scrounging Scum' to 'hard working, tax credit claiming, socially acceptable scrounging' journeyBenefitScroungingScumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-11189011462095858872014-02-27T22:22:12.617+00:002014-02-27T22:22:12.617+00:00What a bunch of idle shits these latter day govern...What a bunch of idle shits these latter day government departments are...from top to bottom... <br /><br />Over forty years ago I was a Civil Servant in the Inland Revenue, and in those days we certainly wouldn't allow anything like this sort of delay.<br /><br />For example, if anybody applied for an Income Tax refund, provided they'd fully disclosed all the relevant details, we absolutely guaranteed a reassessment and refund within 21 days...and this was in a pre computer age and for something far less critical than what you're quoting...<br /><br />And before anyone blames it on staff cutbacks that's bullshit...even in those days we were under-resourced and generally denied overtime pay, (except perhaps briefly during one week a year of "catch-up"), but very often we put in the time and effort anyhow because we cared about people, (if we didn't we wouldn't last long). <br /><br />We were taught from the outset to go the extra mile...perhaps we shouldn't have done it, but we generally did.<br /><br />We were in fact explicitly taught that our job wasn't to maximise the money we took off people, but to advise them of how they could best avail themselves of the tax allowances they could claim, and to assist them in claiming every taxbreak they were legally entitled to...in effect we were indoctrinated in how to be proper Civil SERVANTS.<br /><br />I fear that such is not now the case...this might just be a generational change - or it might be an organisational change - or it could simply be the government's taken the piss out of it's servants too often...whichever, it's plain wrong<br /><br />Respect as always Bendy<br /><br />Davecogidubnushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542717738481600745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-66306386008205511182014-02-23T11:17:06.327+00:002014-02-23T11:17:06.327+00:00My partners experiance is similar.. they sorted th...My partners experiance is similar.. they sorted the transport in about five weeks but the in work assesment took so long my partner gave up and his employers made no adjustments to his job standing for eight hours on metal pins inside his leg bones from the bone cancer surgery ... now hes facing redundancy ATW compleetly let him down hes become depressed and is struggling as his leg swells so much it will no longer bend... hes now up for redundancy after six months of torture by his company... think I might blog this... sorry your having trouble but its nice in a way to know its not just us maybe we can change this... DxxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com