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Daisy   
27 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

British bureaucratic culture is based on the assumption that legal requirements should be kept to an essential minimum and officials are meant to serve the citizen.

Speaking as a Civil Servant working in a British Government department, the above statement is crap........I am employed to serve the Crown.

I get frustrated with the bureaucracy where I work, rules and regulations that were set in stone 150 years ago, make me feel like I'm working with one hand tied behind my back.
Daisy   
27 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

rules and regulations are changed every year and they're so vague or contradictory nobody really knows what they mean

And there are procedures here that no one knows what they mean or why we follow them, because they were made up a very long time ago by a man writing them down in ink with a quill, in an age when only men who owned property were allowed to vote.

I have questioned many things in the department where I work and I always get the same stock answer "we do it that way because it's always been done that way" but nobody can tell me why.

But we also suffer change for change sake, because some tin pot Senior Civil Servant wants to build a little empire for him/herself and make a name for themselves, they move on to head another institution and have long since disappeared by the time others have to suffer the consequences.

I'm not saying it's better, worse or the same in Poland, every country has it's own brand of bureaucracy.

As for working with dinosaurs, I probably have more experience than the average paleantologist
Daisy   
8 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

We can always blame it on the return of the kilt into the fashion industry

I blame Lassie
Daisy   
8 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I hope Mr Pie is gonna return.

Sorry, you are now Pan Pie's self appointed deputy...and proven yourself to be worthy of the appointment.

I'm afraid you're stuck with the job until such time PF members appoint a replacement
Daisy   
8 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Wonder what happened to the pie ?

hhhmmm...I wonder if Miranda knows but isn't telling
Daisy   
15 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Miranda, very good edition.....I'm a little worried it was too good and Pan Pie will use it as an excuse to skive out of his duties.
Daisy   
15 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Maybe I've passed over to the other side?

Is there anybody there?
Daisy   
9 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I had a wizard idea to have a poll on voting for the PF member who would be the next guest author of the Omnibus

You don't get out of it that easily Pan Pie

another enjoyable read.....I'm looking forward to the next one
Daisy   
9 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

It would be nice to have a few people summing up the week from a Polish or Poland based perspective.

Grzegorz could do the abridged version
Daisy   
10 Sep 2008
Love / Married polish women:Are they hot? [79]

good advice for him UKpolska, not that he will listen.. but good and solid advice

Yes, but realistically, what chance would Southern have of getting one of these girls to marry him?
Daisy   
12 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Another wonderful weekly round up, good one pan Pie :)

I am very, very disapointed with Grzegorz :( I am going to start a coup
Daisy   
17 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Pie didn't write that. it was our anonymous guest omnibus writer.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, i demand you tell us who it is?

It wasn't Jesus was it?
Daisy   
17 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Mind you for a brown paper parcel full of used £20 notes....

A package has been placed in a secure location, the whereabouts of which, will be revealed on receipt of the individuals name
Daisy   
23 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I could think of a few posts and posters destined for Room 101

I think a few have already gone there
Daisy   
26 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Splendid round up of the week Miranda, careful, you'll be giving that lazy git Szarlotka excuses not to do anymore.

How brutal can it get?... How brutal could it be!!!

Not as brutal as I'm going to get if you don't quit whingeing
Daisy   
26 Sep 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Look make no mistake, this is a coup d'etat. I've been cast aside like last season's Armani dress

More excuses, you don't get out of writing the next one that easily.