“The Post Office scandal is typical of the rottenness found in British institutions”

Apr 28, 2021 | In the news

There was a campaign to raise £10,000 to ‘save’ Burford’s Post Office, which is now a tiny counter in a local deli. What a waste, when there are people queuing at food banks a few miles away. There’s nothing it nor any other can do that can’t be done online or in the shops which already act as pick ups and drop offs for courier companies. The appalling and tragic mismanagement of this scandal by those at the top, who should have known so much better, will be the death knell of the rest. I’d say.

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.