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I can now see a new job on the horizon for someone – “Fear of bullying Officer” – we have a “fear of crime officer”
They've also got a "Reassurance Officer" - no kidding!!
However, please don't laugh off the suggestion of bullying at the council. I worked for them for many years and for much of that time I was a union rep. The promotion system in the council is bound to lead to bullying - some inadequate little tit is given a job that he (it's usually a "he" ) is incapable of doing, on the basis of being a councillor's mate or relative, of having gone to college with someone who's got a bit of clout. When it becomes obvious that they are incapable of doing the job no-one wants to have to explain why they were given the post in the first place, so they're "promoted out of harm's way" - to a position were they actually do **** all but join the exalted circle of people who are successful (because they and their hopeless mates have bugger all to do all day but advance each other's careers).
Meanwhile the poor bastards who actually do a job are "line managed" by this shower of shit, quite often having to say no to them. The one thing the bullies can't stand is being told no.
The one certainty at Telford & Wrekin is that if you can actually do the job you're paid to do you will keep on doing it until you retire.
I'd love to see a system of "MOT" testing of higher-paid officers - at random, without warning. Nothing too onerous, perhaps a half hour version of the old Eleven Plus. A few basic spelling and English Grammar questions, a bit of simple maths, perhaps some straightforward geography (one of their over-paid tossers couldn't tell which end of the Town Park was North and which South - still, it looks like he's destined for greater things, hopefully the sack).
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