tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post4990546816213763269..comments2024-03-18T23:21:08.363+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Guest Blog 4Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-80539369396059834852014-08-24T09:46:14.324+01:002014-08-24T09:46:14.324+01:0018:20 i am intrested in what you know about be? ...18:20 i am intrested in what you know about be? Is it back on the table ? If so for who? I am sure other colleagues will be egarley waiting a response from anyone In the know<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-6007848838792262892014-08-23T21:56:33.178+01:002014-08-23T21:56:33.178+01:0050 ways to leave your lover... it was a love affai...50 ways to leave your lover... it was a love affair wasnt it. Hell hath no furyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-75686029388611937162014-08-23T21:54:14.945+01:002014-08-23T21:54:14.945+01:00If only they bloody COMMUNICATED. Just some infor...If only they bloody COMMUNICATED. Just some information and support here and there would be nice. Feels like a one way street, with NAPO HQ sucking up my energy to justify themselves. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-28990946135392005602014-08-23T21:48:21.252+01:002014-08-23T21:48:21.252+01:00Oh, Anon SPO, my heart goes out to you. On a dail...Oh, Anon SPO, my heart goes out to you. On a daily basis I cannot decide to be angry or just sad. The phrase "staff goodwill" has been bandied about so much, and it just doesnt do justice to the commitment and dedication that has been binned in the TR shambles. The WASTE the bloody WASTE this has generated. If I was a bidder I would right now be writing off £milliions from the asset register. There is a particularly devastating horror of being a (decent) middle manager in all this: your job is to make TR "roll out" and tick the boxes for people you hate, and who have betrayed you, and your instinct is to hang in there and try to minimise the damage on your team. Devil and deep blue sea. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-72104771264799174652014-08-23T21:23:25.972+01:002014-08-23T21:23:25.972+01:00I have gone from working 60+ hours a week to doing...I have gone from working 60+ hours a week to doing my contracted hours and am not alone in this. Have also noticed how empty the office is where I work too. Because we cover such a large geographical area more and more time is being spent travelling and double the meetings now there needs to be an NPS and a CRC rep at the same meeting. <br />I didn't go to work the other day because I just couldn't face it. I didn't ring in sick and no one noticed I was missing. Would apply for another job outside of probation but so fed up that I can't be bothered. Chris Grayling does not know what irreversible damage he has done to the probation service. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-78562069348616239442014-08-23T18:27:56.352+01:002014-08-23T18:27:56.352+01:00I appreciate your plain speaking geordie po - it&#...I appreciate your plain speaking geordie po - it's a commodity Napo HQ are not that familiar with unfortunately. I know they read this blog - if only they bloody took the messages on board and acted on them. Dino was the only candidate that was prepared to.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-29280196296592587242014-08-23T18:20:25.518+01:002014-08-23T18:20:25.518+01:00Nail on the head. I'm so 'Gate-happy'...Nail on the head. I'm so 'Gate-happy' I'll be pretty devastated if I don't get VR. I'm avoiding courses, meetings and anything work-wise that requires any commitment where humanly possible and my boss cannot have missed the lack of drive that people now currently demonstrate. Who wants to play a part in developing systems and new ways of working when the shifting sands make each day a new miserable landscape?. I'd rather leave and have control of my own mental health back. Over the last 20 years, I can't remember a time when some muppet, probably with 'change is the only constant' pinned on their wall, hasn't been instigating change for it's own sake and sucking the life out of people who thought they were there to nurture POSITIVE change in individuals and society. Enough's enough. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-53767843732705574262014-08-23T18:15:23.077+01:002014-08-23T18:15:23.077+01:00Enough, we haven't voted coz we don't care...Enough, we haven't voted coz we don't care who wins. It's all blah blah blah, all bollocks speak with no relevence to our day by day experience. We call our "clients" offenders. We do a bloody good job, and we have no connection with the NAPO hierarchy. But hey ho on we go with our meaningless elections. The union does fuck all for us at a national level (at local level bless you!). Why are you surprised at a low turnout? Jim, bless you for the work you put in, without you we wouldn't have a clue of developments. There's a lot of us joined since 2000 who aren't social work trained ( and frankly think that was for the better). I know that this will upset people, but bollocks, we have no inferiority complex, why should we? NAPO is bimbling along, it has nothing to do with us.......... apart from the monthly fees, obviously. A geordie PO<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com