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    Yeah my team is chocker with agency staff, and nobody applies for the posts when advertised full time cos the pay is garbage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post

    Management have said we can't do this because we can't afford it. When it was pointed out it would be much cheaper, they said that paying for locums comes out of a different budget so it's not relevant.

    And Lee wonders why we think his lot are morons.
    This is any govt funded body. MOD and its core subbies the same. It's all pots of money, but when you point out to someone that if you were to go back up the ladder a few rungs it's all one big pot of money no one wants to hear it/says they cant do anything about it. Leads to serious waste. Frustrating.

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    We've been understaffed since half-way through the pandemic. We tend to shift people off specialised tasks to do the grunt work, leading to that work building up. The agency staff we've hired haven't made a dent on workload. Replacing 30 people with 8 doesn't add up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc sean View Post
    This is any govt funded body. MOD and its core subbies the same. It's all pots of money, but when you point out to someone that if you were to go back up the ladder a few rungs it's all one big pot of money no one wants to hear it/says they cant do anything about it. Leads to serious waste. Frustrating.
    When I was at the MOJ they had a strict no overtime policy - no matter how far behind we were - for 9 months of the year. Then in January the B Band would say "well, if we don't use our budget, they'll take it away" and they'd switch to pretty much unlimited overtime until April. Half the time doing unnecessary filing. This happened 4 years on the trot and is almost certainly still happening.

    They could probably half our tax rates if they made the Civil Service in anyway fit for purpose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    So at work we are chronically understaffed. We just about get by with locums but still not all the shifts get filled.

    Management keep telling our rota co-ordinator to come up with a solution. She has made multiple proposals which all get turned down.

    Most recently, she has come up with a 14 person rota (currently we have an 11 person rota) with plans to employ 2 extra people +1 who is coming back from mat leave. There would be no issue finding people for those roles as we had over 200 applications last time we advertised.

    This rota would be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to run than what we currently pay for locum cover and would actually fill all the gaps (unlike the current set-up). It would virtually eliminate the need for locums within the department, aside from last minute sickness etc.

    Management have said we can't do this because we can't afford it. When it was pointed out it would be much cheaper, they said that paying for locums comes out of a different budget so it's not relevant.

    And Lee wonders why we think his lot are morons.
    With something this obvious and so stupid, can't they just keep going further up the chain until some minister steps in? It seems like something the government (even this government) would want to fix.

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    There's probably the flip side of taking someone on full time and the added pension costs/full time rights you get. Hire and fire without strings is easier. Plus they're the first to go when cuts are needed to be found.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    There's probably the flip side of taking someone on full time and the added pension costs/full time rights you get. Hire and fire without strings is easier. Plus they're the first to go when cuts are needed to be found.
    Locums aren't "hired". You offer the empty shifts up and people offer to fill them.

    The only reason she's even being asked to fix it is because we can't consistently fill all the locum gaps. The management outright told her that if we could fill all the locum gaps, that would be the preferred option (even though that would cost EVEN MORE than we're currently spending and massively more than the proposed rota).

    It's just insanity.

    We get paid £35 an hour for in-hours (weekday daytime essentially) and £45 an hour for out-of-hours. So it costs the trust over a grand to have me locum for a weekend, and most weekends are available if I want them.
    Last edited by randomlegend; 02-05-2022 at 05:45 PM.

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    And all you do is Tik tok.

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    So tired of this


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    No chance you're middleweight.

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    If you need to build your portfolio I need some scheduled pretty instagram posts creating Legit biz
    I'm a twit

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    I've got three nights down in Horsham at the end of the month. Doesn't someone on here live round there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    If you need to build your portfolio I need some scheduled pretty instagram posts creating Legit biz
    I don't need to build my portfolio. I charge 40 quid an hour so if you have the budget I'm happy to.

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    You just lost the opportunity to have your work seen by tens of people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    I don't need to build my portfolio. I charge 40 quid an hour so if you have the budget I'm happy to.
    Have you done instagrams? Can I see?

    Some are absolutely mega.
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    behance.net/joeentwistle

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luke Emia View Post
    I've got three nights down in Horsham at the end of the month. Doesn't someone on here live round there?
    Near Brighton so maybe Regista? I may be a resident of said place in the not too distant future, but not within your time frame. Was there at the beginning of Easter and it seemed a decent place.

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    'A high level of technical proficiency in Excel' is not wingable, is it?

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    Depends on the job but I'd say so. Most people think being able to utilise conditional formatting and IF functions is incredible.

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    I can do everything except macros and pivot tables (honestly, fuck pivot tables) and I would probably try and blag the above description for myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    'A high level of technical proficiency in Excel' is not wingable, is it?
    You can pretty much Google any fancy formulas you need.
    I'm a twit

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    About 50% of my week in an old job was spent on pivot tables. Horrible things.

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    I still don't know what pivot tables are.

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    Pivot Tables are 100% gangsta, and you should all know that

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    I know an architect who gets gently mocked at his workplace of eight for knowing what pivot tables are.

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    There's a (quite nice) doctor's mess at work which is a bit out of the way and so nobody uses it other than me and occasionally about 2 other people.

    One of them is super odd but seems to have decided we're friends and keeps talking to me.

    Fortunately he's not there enough to actually ruin it for me but it's still upsetting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    I still don't know what pivot tables are.
    It's basically creating a view from a dataset/table in Excel using the column headers as fields. It allows you to filter and calculate things quickly without editing the source data. Aren't you a python knob now?

    I've had an offer today from one of the big digital banks. I've got another interview tomorrow with one of the big American banks (4th interview) so hoping to go into next week with a decision to make.

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    Game recognise game.

    Out of the way, Kiko, you dickhead

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    Sorry for the pivot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    It's basically creating a view from a dataset/table in Excel using the column headers as fields. It allows you to filter and calculate things quickly without editing the source data. Aren't you a python knob now?

    I've had an offer today from one of the big digital banks. I've got another interview tomorrow with one of the big American banks (4th interview) so hoping to go into next week with a decision to make.
    Weirdly I've just moved to a team that uses python which I haven't used before.

    I don't fuck with Excel though. I never use spreadsheets in my job.

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    Sharing my portfolio and Baz stop replying and change the subject is much like my actual job search.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Sharing my portfolio and Baz stop replying and change the subject is much like my actual job search.
    Did you order your portfolio chronologically instead of strongest works first? Your starting project, at first glance, certainly doesn't look like it should be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Sharing my portfolio and Baz stop replying and change the subject is much like my actual job search.
    I'd have looked at it if you'd linked it properly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Sorry for the pivot.

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    Speaking of pivots, this erm ... business might be going a couple of interesting ways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Speaking of pivots, this erm ... business might be going a couple of interesting ways.
    Okay.

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    Well, either it's nothing or we all have to relocate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Sharing my portfolio and Baz stop replying and change the subject is much like my actual job search.
    It was all about AIDS, and didn’t really load very well on my phone on hospital WiFi, sorry.
    I'm a twit

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    Was phonics hoping for Baz to offer him a job?

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    The profile headshot looks like a social media-savvy 'rising star' in the BNP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Was phonics hoping for Baz to offer him a job?
    No. He was making a comparison between Baz showing initial interest followed by no response to his experience dealing with potential employers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Well, either it's nothing or we all have to relocate.
    There we go. Smack those two posts together, and we have a proper post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Was phonics hoping for Baz to offer him a job?
    Im available

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    Panda, have you been involved in some kind of accident mate?

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    Here comes the ambulance chaser. 🙄

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    Pivot tables and standard fomulas look wingable, what about dashboards?

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    I think also googleable.

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    Don't encourage him.

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