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Originally Posted by shillelagh
that was back in 1986 .... surely you werent expecting the staff to be fired on the day it went private are you .. so who would run the company then ...
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Please don't call me Shirley
The problem with many public services is that they don't get rid of incompetent staff. If someone is not good enough to be doing a job they should be moved to a level they are competent.
Housing is probably a good example. If the Councils had run their Council House departments properly there would have been no need to sell of the houses. They would all have been well maintained, tenants would have had problems dealt with rapidly. What did we have though? Houses in a poor state of maintenance required lots of money spending on them because the Council badly managed the housing stock. Maybe rents were to low to be able to maintain the houses but if that was the case it shows poor management.
I am sure the bus company is still controlled by the council even if only loosely. The fact that all the staff just moved across in 1986 would suggest it would be badly managed from the start and is probably still suffering all these years later.
I wonder if the staff are still on the same terms and conditions including pensions as the Council staff are?