Job cuts loom for council workers

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• angry council tax payer
  Unregistered User
  Jun 7, 11:30
  Comment: 11475
  
  

  L.OL. ISthis why the old toilet rubbish is still present at CULROSS CEMATARY .BECAUSE OF CUT BACKS.iTS A joke
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• other tax payer
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  Jun 7, 11:45
  Comment: 11476
  
  

  I saw it one night last week as well .its maybe getting uesd for recycling into some ones council house since there making cut backs .If lies any longer it will be ANTIQUE.
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• Mike Intheknow
  Unregistered User
  Jun 7, 18:15
  Comment: 11485
  
  

  I bet this stupid council tax freeze is not helping
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• Davie Robb
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  Jun 7, 18:57
  Comment: 11486
  
  

  Hooray - lets use the chance to get rid of all the 'non-jobs' and useless management throughout the Council. The Roads Department can be next to go, after all the money they waste on traffic lights and speed bumps etc. In fact, why not just get rid of the greedy snout in the trough 'Concillors' who recently made ludicrous claims for expenses. That would save us a fortune.....
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• Worried Fife Council Receptionist
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  Jun 8, 11:50
  Comment: 11502
  
  

  Please dont say hooray, I need my job! I just hope that job losses dont affect the Occupational Therapy department as their waiting lists are enormous and staff shortages and budget cuts are already making their lives hell as it is. They need to cut spending on things that are not needed like artwork for buildings, the commission of useless scuptures etc. I also think they need to take a look at some of the Councillors ridiculous expences. Especially the ones who dont know their backsides from their elbows!
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• John
  Unregistered User
  Jun 8, 13:43
  Comment: 11506
  
  

  I am so pleased that this has finally happened! Not that I want anyone to lose their job, but... As a Council Tax victim of this council for many years I am glad that they are now going to lose extra capacity as we have been funding their profligate snorting for too long. Why should decent honest people who work hard have to fund these parasites ?
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• Mike Intheknow
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  Jun 8, 18:44
  Comment: 11511
  
  

  BIG meeting on Friday to tell people who some of the jobs which are going so stage one is on its way.
  
  SHAME ON YOU peter PRAT! awful smug git he is!
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• Nic FC
  Unregistered User
  Jun 8, 19:30
  Comment: 11512
  
  

  It's not entirely true, they are considering the possibility of early retirement, recruitment freezing and VOLUNTARY redundancies they aren't even considering compulsory redundancies yet, they want to try cutting budgets and accumulating funds from other places first!! And we need our jobs just like everyone else just because we work for the council doesn't mean we're ****! I've been made redundant before and it's an awful experience for anyone, hope it doesn't have to come to that, anyway the cuts are to be made over the next 5 years its not like its gonna happen tomorrow.
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• Mike Intheknow
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  Jun 8, 21:52
  Comment: 11513
  
  

  JOB CUTS COMING THIS WEEK FACT,
  
  compulsory redundancies are taken place, dont get hood winked.
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• council tax payer
  Unregistered User
  Jun 9, 20:37
  Comment: 11532
  
  

  Are cut backs done allready because i was at culross cematry and that rubbish is still lying outside the toilets was.told bye manager of grounds department on monday it would be liffted bye the council its been there since febuary they told me .Its a digrace not pretty site to see on visiting family graves .
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• Sheila
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  Jun 9, 23:14
  Comment: 11536
  
  

  It is true ! I work for fife council and the news letters have been given to all staff. They want to bridge the gap, and will end up letting go almost 20% of their workforce.
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• stormxxx
  Unregistered User
  Jun 10, 01:48
  Comment: 11543
  
  

  Jees! wait till everyone makes massive protests and refuses to pay council tax,,,,should be fun!!!
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• tax payer
  Unregistered User
  Jun 10, 09:35
  Comment: 11550
  
  

  Well they will go out with good deals its about time they got rid of some of the SLACKERS.Iwas walking past glen carpark one day and there was about 6 or 7 GARDENERS and only about 2WORKING REST STANDING LOOKING IS THAT WHAT THEY GET PAID FOR TO STAND DO NOTHING .EASY MONEY ALLWAYS SAID THAT.
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• other tax payer
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  Jun 10, 10:56
  Comment: 11552
  
  

  HI sheila do you work for ENVIRONMENT SERVICES .If you do you may gey to keep your job to UPLIFT ALL THE XXXX THATS OUTSIDE LADIES LOOS AT CULROSS CEMETERIE
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• Worried Fife Coulcil Receptionist
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  Jun 10, 11:16
  Comment: 11555
  
  

  It's not true that ALL staff will leave with good deals. Ive only been here 10 months or so and I would get nothing. I have a mortgage, debt and bills like everyone else. So no, loosing my job is not a good thing. Im am certainly not a slacker and you wouldnt believe the things I have to put up with from some of the "clients" that come into my reception. Please spare a thought for people like me who are genuinly worried about their future and the possibilty of having to fight for the non existent jobs out there if I was to be made redundant !
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• The Grim Reaper
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  Jun 10, 11:40
  Comment: 11556
  
  

  I think I'd be worried about my future if my spelling and grammar was as bad as yours. No wonder Council employees have such a bad reputation!
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• Worried Fife Coulcil Receptionist
  Unregistered User
  Jun 10, 11:58
  Comment: 11557
  
  

  Oh, I'm sorry Grim Reaper, I didn't realise it was a spelling competition. I do have a degree but these days that means nothing. There is no need to be so pedantic. I was on my break and typing quickly. I do apologise. I'm glad that the Dunfermline Press does not accept texts because the comment page would need to be subtitled first!
  
  All I am going to say is that I hope this does not affect my office because we are already struggling with staff shortages in all departments. Just think what this will do to the already lengthy waiting lists.
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• Big Frank
  Unregistered User
  Jun 11, 09:24
  Comment: 11597
  
  

  Well, it seems the cooncil need to spend more on edge-u-kashun, as the spelling in some of these posts are attroshus!
  
  P.S. The gardeners standing about eh, they not entitled to a break like?
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• tax payer
  Unregistered User
  Jun 11, 12:05
  Comment: 11601
  
  

  BIG FRANK YES THEY ARE ALLOWED A BREAK BUT THESES WERE STANDING WATCING I NO THE DIFFRANCE BWETEEN A BREAK AND A SKIVE .WHERE WE WORK WE SIT DOWN AND HAVE A BREAK NOT STAND WATCH FELLOW WORKERS WORK .I NO THEY WORK OUTSIDE BUT NORMAL THERE SITTING IN THERE COUNCIL VANS ?DID I TOUCH A NERVE LIKE .
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• OMG
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  Jun 11, 20:33
  Comment: 11624
  
  

  So eloquently put, tax payer, I shall ensure that I sit down on my next break as I would hate the great unwashed to get the wrong idea that because I was standing up that I was skiving.
  
  Fife council are making staff redundant. In my case 3 weeks today. No voluntary option, no redeployment, no early retirement, no fat cat pay out either. Fife council have NO money to even make the effort. Get used to it and get over it, this is as good as it gets unless one moves to Perth and Kinross where budgeting is included in the manifesto and the people of that county are living a different life.
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• worker
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  Jun 12, 10:46
  Comment: 11628
  
  

  omg just move then at least you will have job just travel like every body elese does.did not no perth and kinross came under fife .
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• ******
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  Jun 12, 11:20
  Comment: 11630
  
  

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• OMG
  Unregistered User
  Jun 12, 19:26
  Comment: 11640
  
  

  Worker- I really do not know what you are trying to convey in your post.
  
  Davie Robb is right when he questions the quality of some posts here, however please do not tar us all with the same brush. I was stating that I was to be made redundant to make it clear that Fife council are at this stage. I was not bleating about it.
  
  Just because I work for Fife Council does not make me a second class person. I need to work and better this job than benefits. I make no apologies for working to enable me to put food on the table.
  
  Ironically the job which I have secured to follow my redundancy is with Fife council-but in a different department. I have had to be proactive in finding alternative employment as the council's redeployment "policy" is none existent. I tell you this to demonstrate the wasted money even in their cost cutting exercise. Instead of redeployment I have had to respond to an advertised vacancy, interview and all the admin that goes with this, disclosure check even though I already have two with Fife Council and although I have secured the post I am still not in-situ and Fife cCuncil are paying outside contracters whilst it's sorted.
  
  Ther's always a bigger picture which unfortunately costs a lot of money to paint when the artist is Fife Council.
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• burnsy
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  Jul 1, 22:43
  Comment: 12160
  
  

  Here's a thought, every council worker in the Kingdom goes home tomorrow and they go back to work ONLY if they get a phone call saying they are needed at work.
  
  After six weeks anyone still at home can get paid off, then we'll only have 'essential' workers surely?
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