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My grandfather was a postal worker,he got minimum wage and he called it charity.

@Fiona, What kind of work do they do?

@Hill, so why are you still up being sarcastic to the random person who makes an obious point i.e. me?

@Gog, well, it is a service to the public...

Morning Gog

@ Rav. I'm working in a specialist fostering project just now. Is that what you're asking?

He disdributed mail,He got robbed several times doing this job and eventually he had to buy a gun to fend off the brigants

Sounds like the Wild West...

@Fiona, I think that's what I was asking. Why don't they get government funding then?

Social work isn't a vote winner. The local authorities have to provide a fostering service but it is so poorly funded it has virtually collapsed. There were always charities working alongside but the deregulation nuts opened the possibility of the private sector coming in. They pay carers wages, the Local authority can only pay expenses. Carers leave the local authority to work for the private sector. Local authority has the responsibility to care for the young people and so they have to use the private service carers. Each placement costs about 4 times what it used to cost, but the authority gets no more money than they got before. Therefore less young people get that service and other services are cut. Then the government complains another service which has been affected is not good enough and opens it to the private sector....you see where this is going?

Sorry, that's far more information than you probably wanted

*nods* Lovely vicious circle there.

It's alright, seems interesting enough. And I did ask...

[QUOTE=Fiona]Sorry, that's far more information than you probably wanted [/QUOTE]He who is afraid to get answers, shouldn't ask questions.

Morning Lestat. How are you today?

Fairly OK. Things are quiet, actually we could have closed our office this week but the Commission wouldn't let us, so most of us are twiddling their thumbs. I give most of the staff the option to go home early.

One major grief: the internet is horribly slow...

Worse than usual?

It was slow for everybody yesterday, but it seems OK here today

Hello Lestat. Sorry to hear about the slow connection.

This is about as "immediate" as I can respond to posts. Does that answer your question.

It's a definition of frustration, I think.
Any reason it is so bad just now?

I don't know. Just called the provider. They are going to look into it from their side... and then probably find a way to put the blame on us.

Maybe it has to do that yesterday I shouted at the phone. Our payment was due yesterday and our assistant accountant was on the way with the cheque and then they cut us off. In view of the fact that we had multiple interruptions of sometimes a day over the past few months, I found that extremely impolite and I told them it was "disgraceful customer service" and then I hung up... was a bit angry... well furious actually.

Not surprising you were angry. But are phone companies so organised in Liberia that you can actually speak to ( shout at) anyone who has the power to retaliate? Wouldn't be easy to make contact with anyone that high in an organisation here

Companies aren't that big here and, let's be frank, in Africa as an international organisation, certainly if you're associated with the EC, you have some clout. So yes, I usually get to talk to someone higher up...

I thought that being involved with the EC might help. The phone company is probably having it's own problems trying to sort it out though, maybe it's a widespread thing.

[QUOTE=Lestat]Companies aren't that big here and, let's be frank, in Africa as an international organisation, certainly if you're associated with the EC, you have some clout. So yes, I usually get to talk to someone higher up...[/QUOTE]
Bah!!
Here it's wonder if you even get to talk someone who even knows what you are speaking...
For example, I was making a call to my internet-provider. I was pinpointed to different people over 2 hours, then from last person I got a number to where to call, and it was the number I had called at the very beginning

In Australia, we call our 51% government owned company, Telstra, and you get put through to call centres in India. Now that's all well and good... except they cannot understand you, and just end up making you even angrier.