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but i dont see why it takes the GRO a week to get my certs to me



i mean

they clock on at 9am this morning

9:05 get my application and payment

9:10 check registers

9:15 find certs

9:20 put certs in envelope

9:30 ask tom/dick/harry to pop certs in post box on way to getting coffee and doughnuts

i get certs by the next morning


simple isnt it


Bev

How much easier would it be if they could email a copy through in a few hours? Saves paper, stamp and postmans legs ?



Oh the waiting.................!

even better lindsey

its the waiting thats the killer

i cant do anymore with ethel til i get these

lol

Bev

lara

i think you will find that the PC was still booting up at 9:01

so 9:05 is the earlist possible time they can recieve applications

presuming of course they are not drinking tea and chatting about what they did last night

lol

Bev

lol lara

i too am being sarcastic to the GRO

you didnt offend,

*nudges lara out of way*

pmsl

wow joan

great idea

i am waiting for 2

ordered them last night, so hoping they will be here next monday

my last lot took a week

Bev

But your forgetting...........

9.05 Receive application

9.10 Break for coffee as have been in front of monitor for 10 minutes.

9.20 Return to desk and check database to see where the relevant certificate is stored.

9.25 Find the location of said certifcate is in the basement.

9.30 Coffee break

9.40 Call H & S to see if relevant Risk assessment has been conducted on staircase to basement

9.50 Call H&S to check that wiring to light in said basement complies to current building standard

10.00 Contact Office Lakey to ask if he can go to basement to scan certificate data. No reply.

10.10 Office Lakey returns from fag break.

10.15 E mail Lakey before going into meeting about diversity and blue sky thinking.

12.00 Return from meeting annd break for lunch.

13.00 Return from lunch and find Lakey has just left for his lunch.

14.00 Office Lakey returns and says he will need to take a manual handling course before he can lift the book off the shelf in basement.

14.15 lakey now booked in for Manual handling course in three days time.

14.30 Coffee break

14.45 Leave office as attending meeting for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender forum.

16.00 Leave work as working flexitime.

Four days later

11.00 Arrive in office and ask Lakey to complete course evaluation form.

11.15 Help Lakey complete form as , because of diversity in the workplace legislation GRO has employed an illiterate Lackey.

11.30 Coffee break

11.45 File papers on desk because of "Tidy Desk" policy

12.00 Go to lunch

13.00 Decide to go to basement in person and copy details from book.

13.15 Arrive in basement to find that the ladder needed to retrieve book hasn't been safety checked in the last six months.

13.30 Return to office to find the Ladder safety form.

13.45 Coffee Break

14.00 Fill out Safety form

14.15 Return to basement, retrieve book and then spot that scanner is due for PAT test.

14.30 Return to office to make phone call requesting PAT test.

14.45 Receive confirmation that equipment mmust be taken out of service until test is completed in three days time.

15.00 Return to basement to put "Do not use" sticker (written in 25 languages including braille) on
scanner.

15.15 Leave work.

Three days later

9.20 Arrive in office and fill out End user report for PAT test.

9.35 Arrange literacy classes for Lackey

9.50 Go to basement, scan certificate and place in envolope.

10.00 Receive call from Lackeys uniion rep saying there will be an all out strike if you don't go to conciliation meeting as you have demoralised Lackey by doing a job which he is employed to do.

11.30 Meeting finishes and you and Lackey go to pub to celebrate as its Monday again.

14.00 Return to office and put certificate in out tray.

Nudge:-))

thought smoking was banned in workplace environs???


lol janet

you are probably right!!!


Bev

Of course smoking is banned in the workplace. The lackey had gone for the fag 15 minutes earlier and because of tthe policy he'd had to go two blocks away so as not to polute the car drivers lungs with pre filtered smoke emanating from his lungs. (Unlike the vehicles whose catalytic converters don't remove the carcinogenic particulate because no one drives far enough for them to get to operating temperature)

Sorry bit off topic but catalytic converters are the only thing I agreed with Margaret Thatcher about.

It always takes longer while WDYTYA is running..

Leave it until a few weeks after the end of the series, it'll speed up then.

You do realise if these certs come back wrong Bev will be putting out a Fatwah on me, I'll be worth more dead than alive !

Bear in mind Bev, there is a limited number of staff dealing with not a few requests, but thousands of requests every day

To be honest, you should be pleased if it takes only a week. I've rarely waited less than a fortnight, sometime four weeks (when WDYTYA first started though)

I too ordered today, says despatch 5th Sept. I thought that quick having waited more than 3 weeks in the past !!!!

Linda :o)

Bev it might be worth your while trying for certs at the nearest register office to the one you are looking for, it might be a bit faster and sometimes cheaper. Make sure they do copies though, and not typed copies.

I ordered direct from Kings Lynn office and recieved cert the next day ;;;
was well chuffed | can tell you ;;;

Babs

ps use local ones if you can ;;

LOL, gave me a good titter. I know what it's like a week can seem *so* long.

And of course the DoVE project and MAGPIE have both been horrifically delayed with no known date for planned completion (if ever). The contractors responsible for actioning DoVE reached the end of their contract and it hasn't been renewed (by mutual agreement or some such politically correct nonsense - nothing to do with them already having been a year late or anything).

raflmso

i ave to laugh at your time report of what they need to do,
i dont think yyour being unreasonable actually bev
after all how much info do they need, youve done most of reserch for them

Thank goodness they came back with the right people,thats done my street cred a power of good, besides I would have been mortified if I'd given the wrong details !
Yes it's a very long week!

lol lindsey

yes you are a star

read my new thread on tips

the plot thickens

lol

bev