Be Excellent To Each Other

Just had a meeting - been fucked up the ass by the following council promises broken:

1: You will be getting extra staff for the new building.
No you won't. No to the two new scale 1's. No new scale 2. No new scale 3. No new porter and no new cleaners despite the new place being twice as big with more stock, more computers and at least twice as many customers.

2: You will have your outdated, slow and frequently crashing computers replaced with new ones.

No you won't.

3: The library hours will remain unchanged, there will be no Sunday opening.

Yes there will. It will be open 11 - 3 on, incredibly, the entrance lobby with small bestseller displays and quickuse PC's. (Which will be down anyway 'cos that's when IT updates the systems.) (Also see 1.)

4: If the library staff take a vote against it, then we'll scrap the idea.

Actually, we'll hire Cardiff Works temps if no one agrees to do so.

Thanks Cardiff Council, you unspeakable set of ("And that's enough shocking revelations," - ed.)

Shhhhh!



So so sorry

It's time to "Go Archival" pete. It's the only way.

I sympathise, really, but I was sorely tested by your use of the word "customer" in relation to patrons of a library.

Ugh, you're right. I'm contaminated by corporate speak already. Scrub me clean please.

No, please. I've wanted it for ever so long.

You love it, you slag! You want to leverage those footfalls and build pay per click revenue year on year! Books? No, those are rentable overhead assets. Oooh yes.

My service's contract is up for review by CCC and at the end of March I'll know whether I stay with my current employers or am TUPE'd over to another organisation.

As such I'd like to point out that contrary to Pete's post, CCC bigwigs are the most charming, fragrant and fiscally astute people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

That is scary!

Given the unmitigated disaster Barnet libraries had updating their system, you may well have just dodged a bullet.