SOT: Where do they get these people?

[damduck-egg]

But like the OP's council they are starting charges for some items next month,

Did, you fill in the public consultation form a few of months ago ?

At least it looks like they are keeping all the sites open though hours are reduced.

The one I use is almost in Dorset which gives the operators a constant headache as more residents from that county probably live near than Hampshire ones ,those who lived just over the border were allowed to use it with Dorset paying a contribution, that was withdrawn in Dorsets earlier cost trimming so the operators are supposed to turn them away but policing it is not really practical or easy and when a Dorset resident is caught leads to friction. Hampshire as part of its review is trying to get Dorset to cough up again. It does seem daft that due to geography many Dorset residents have drive past a Hampshire tip to reach a Dorset one.

G.Harman

[Richard]

No, but I am aware of the intent to charge.

I am quite fortunate in that I have both Marchwood and Southampton sites within easy reach. Having read the tribulations of other posters re waste, be it bin collections or recycling centres, I feel that I am living in a more relaxed authority than they are. I may be wrong.

[damduck-egg]

Actually I think the same though my BIL always seems to fall out with the tip operators but then he is one of those people who seems to be at war with everyone. I did find the reason to introduce a monthly glass collection service a little over the top though, the cash came from central government to allow those councils who had gone down to fortnightly collections to reintroduce weekly ones, New Forest having never reduced from weekly had to start the glass collection or not claim the money. ASFAIK now the existing bottle banks in laybys and pub car parks haven't been reduced so to an extent we know have a duplication of resources and more importantly I haven't got the excuse to sneak a pint down the pub, just going to the bottle skip dear. why , they get collected now comes the reply.

G.Harman

[dennis]

Nothing like it, junior doctors have always had to work out of hours. Who do you think is the doctor when you turn up at A&E at midnight Sunday?

The government wants them to work more of their working hours at weekends so the NHS can offer routine stuff at weekends.

They don't want them to work more hours.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The government want a cost neutral solution. If it made no difference to the conditions of the doctors, why wouldn't they accept it?

[KYW]

Because they prefer to not work on the weekends.

[charles]

perhap they's like a life outside the NHS - with family, etc.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , damduck- [e-mail] escribió:

Huh.

Our council is moving to *three-weekly* collection.

Going to be a bit whiffy next summer.

[bert]

In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

The terms were agreed back in June but then rejected. It is now a purely politically motivated strike.

[bert]

In article , KYW writes

They already do. The contract transfers some of those hours from overtime to standard hours with substantial financial compensation.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

They already do. But get paid overtime. Hunt doesn't understand work - like most politicians - so thinks they should be forced to work any hours he sees fit. Under any conditions.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You probably worked shift work as I did, Charles. And it is perfectly possible to cover 24/7 working with enough people and decent organisation.

But not much point in having doctors work 24/7 if there aren't the backup services they need to to their job working the same hours.

[charles]

Indeed so, but when, with start of the OU looming. they wanted a sub-shift to work from 0500 to 1700, I led the move that the equipment should be automated.

Met this; took MiL to see specialist at 18.30 - he was working late to deal with a backlog. but x-ray had gone home - as had his secretary!

[Richard]

Where would that be?

[bert]

In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

The back up service already work 24/7

[Capitol]

No, they don't, IME currently.

[Vir Campestris]

Nor mine.

Last time I was in a hospital there was almost nobody there but the on-call Doctor - who was doing her paperwork, not tending to patients.

A few administrators to deal with that and we wouldn't need all the overtime. But they should still be working weekends. Doctors aren't idiots, so it should be fairly obvious to them that emergency medicine is 24/7. Probably with a peak on Saturday night about closing time...

Andy

[James Wilkinson]

Bags are always measured in 2 dimensions. It's the dimensions when flat.

[Bod]

Wrong, we use tough gardening bags that are 3 dimensional.

[The Other John]

Well it's a daft way to specify a bag - what's the volume of a rectangle?

I haven't been to the tip - sorry community recycling centre :) since the charges came in but I expect they've got a person on the gate with a ruler saying yea or nay to arriving tippers and/or processing card payments as appropriate (they are not allowed to take cash). This should result in queues in both directions on the approach road which will really please the through traffic drivers!

The local paper is already reporting an increase in fly tipping, even of material which is free to dump.