council competing against us! disgusting!

[Pedroski]

I'm just off to pick up litter in the middle of town free of charge so those council workers haven't got any work to do come Monday. That'll teach 'em!

[geoff]

I'm just off to pick up litter in the middle of town free of charge so those council workers haven't got any work to do come Monday. That'll teach 'em!

 

 

I have a 'billy goat' leaf/litter collector,not been used much,you can borrow it anytime.

[Tom D]

Well today I have had my first confirmed job lost to the council.

 

I had a job booked in, the council came to fell some street trees next to the customers house and did his job for less than I could.

 

If you can't beat them on price dave who can?

[skyhuck]

If you can't beat them on price dave who can?

 

It was only a small job and as the council were already there doing other work, they were bound to be cheaper.

 

Plus I was also grinding out some stumps for him, so although their price was half mine, its not really a true comparison.

[mendiplogs]

just found out from a friend of mine that our local council have dropped lots of flyers off advertising their services to members of the public! 1 job i know they have won is a 50 linear metre hawthorne hedge that wants trimming 2 meters tall council put £1400 on said job and won it . now im wundering why they are allowed to compete for potential jobs me or any of you could be doing? especially when WE the tax payer are buying their fuel, machines, equipment and paying wages! now yes some of us do compete against local authority for jobs, but WE arent getting any handouts from tax payers money:thumbdown: does this happen anywhere else or is there any rumors of this happening where you are

 

HI SIMON BATH council been doing it for years mate it takes the :lol:mate jon

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Man alive this is a proper rant thread!

 

both national and local government waste money on an epic scale, and it is EPIC.

 

this thread just reflects the frustration we all feel in that waste, waste that is starting to really scrape and chaff because were all working on the wire.

 

If the private sector worked in the same way local or national government worked we would all be out of business double quick.

 

every firm, be they local government or private are all looking to thin out their "deadwood" you only need to fear losing your job in this world if your the first person to be in the deadwood pile cos your not earning the firm any money!

taxation and costings are not as transparent as they should be, ask your local council to give you DETAILED accounts for the financial year!

[Salix Tree & Countryside]

It will be like the countryside sector soon....................2 or 3 lucky employees and a million volunteers and weekend warriors. I worked in local authority for over ten years, saw staff reductions, budget cuts la la la and all the time we HAD to work with the community be it volunteers (of which there were very good ones and equally very bad ones), community groups, probation service, schools in fact anybody that could even half hold a shovel !! This FREE labour was all costed into our reports to the higher management to make us look really efficient and cheap..........I could very rarely afford to pay a proper contractor for a good job, it was all about the FREE labour at hand........is this the way its going to end up in the landscape and Arb sector..........god knows........I have no problem with council workers doing council work on publicly owned and managed land, after all thats what they do......but venturing into the private domain is wrong..........

 

and i'm out.......................

 

Mark

[Tom D]

Problem is Tony when government bodies thin out the deadwood they don't. they have a last in first out policy. so the old hands jobs are always safe whereas the keen youngsters are the first to go....

[Salix Tree & Countryside]

Problem is Tony when government bodies thin out the deadwood they don't. they have a last in first out policy. so the old hands jobs are always safe whereas the keen youngsters are the first to go....

 

well said......

[Rob D]

Problem is Tony when government bodies thin out the deadwood they don't. they have a last in first out policy. so the old hands jobs are always safe whereas the keen youngsters are the first to go....

 

 

The people in charge of thinning out the deadwood are usually the ones most in need of thinning! Same as the NHS and other massive organisations it's about looking after fellow back scratchers rather than doing what you're paid to be doing.