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All the very best to all my friends around the globe for this year, next year and every year!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Christmas 2011.
Please enjoy a wonderful holiday wherever you are, whoever you are, whoever it is you are with, enjoy!
Monday, December 19, 2011
Unservicable Services.
Today has been one of those days I had hoped I would never again suffer!
I have spent many years trying to control myself, many years biting my tongue, many years keeping silent when words should have been said, but fearing my temper would win out and lose my battle.
Not good, any of it!
Not good for me, not good for the causes I wished to champion, and not good for those I should have changed!
A simple meeting today, residents and managers, to discuss our service charges for the next fiscal year. Simple enough, straightforward, yes, simple, yes, until we reached the point where the services we were not receiving was reached, and the lifts, yes those lifts again, those lifts we spent so much on to modernise, those lifts so unreliable, upgraded to modern day disability standards to cater for the deaf and blind with vocal announcements re doors opening, doors closing, floor number and etc.!!!!!
Still unreliable!
Still getting up, down and floors wrong!
Still saying doors are opening when they are closing!
Wrong, wrong and still bloody wrong!
And still breaking down on a regular basis.
That is without the lighting in the public areas that take weeks to repair and all those other ‘trivial’ matters that matter to no one that does not live here!
If it ever gets repaired it will have taken far too long! Most of the problems do not get seen to ever, apparently disappearing into ‘the system’!
It seems there is a little known clause in the Genesis terms and conditions that say that if a problem is not reported each and every month that the problem exists then the problem no longer exist! So if they can get away with ignoring the problem for 30 days then there is no problem.
Simple! NOT!
I should not have lost my temper today, and I do feel sad that I did! But, then again, the managers should have listened to what I had to say, not what they wanted me to say.
If people will not listen I will shout till they have to!
From top to bottom the employees of this organisation seem to have a major problem with their role in life.
Seemingly under the impression that we are elderly in need of their housing, and that we should be so very happy for their good grace in supplying that need!
From where I stand they are so wrong! Again!
The majority, if not all, the leaseholders here have worked hard all their lives and have elected to buy a leasehold home in their later lives that might, and should, have provided a degree of support.
Unfortunately, that support is so sadly lacking.
We have paid for our leases. We also pay for service, a service lacking in all but the charges.
I have no desire to denigrate ‘social housing’, there is a great need as such, but Lucam Lodge is not a social housing scheme.
We pay Genesis to manage our homes. We contribute to Genesis staff wages. I really do feel we are entitled to a little in return! A little more, that is, than the sub standard and oh so very tired excuses we get everyday now.
Genesis Housing Association has let us all down so badly here at Lucam Lodge, and, it would seem, Genesis Housing Association will continue to do so long into the future.
Probably long after we are gone, simply because if last months problem is not reported next month the problem is no longer here!
Think on it!
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thin Skins and Union Leaders!
Following the recent 'Day Of Action' where our Public Service workers withdrew their services, I will not call it a strike as only a few dedicated souls picketed their workplaces, while others joined the demonstrations in various city centers. But, it would appear, a large majority, particularly those with the young children that the schools and nurseries had locked out, put the day to good use hitting the malls and shops for more than a little light Christmas shopping.
Needless to say, there were a considerable number of people that chose to work, defying their coworkers picketing their workplace, crossing the picket lines and bravely working on.
Two items hit the headlines and both, to my mind, showed just how narrow minded and petty our so called union officials continue to be.
One was an e-mail that despite being rapidly withdrawn, drew condemnation from all sides, while the other was a comment on TV by a motoring correspondent, not known as a political animal, joking that the strikers be shot! Publicly!
The reaction? Beyond belief!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068742/Scab-jibe-workers-crossed-picket-lines-defy-strikers.html#ixzz1fPOKcREM
My thoughts follow:-
Both this and the reaction to Jeremy Clarkson's joke shows just how narrow minded the current crop of union 'leaders' are! Were I still a union member I would be resigning right now. I would never support a spokesman so thin skinned and humorless as are this bunch! With a mindset based firmly in the sixties, I do not believe any of them have ever seen that great movie 'I'm alright Jack!' Definitely recommended for any would be 'Union Leader', they would see then just how sad they really are, lacking focus and consequently losing the plot! I have not forgotten there are many tragic situations around the world, and I do truly grieve for those that suffer so tragically, but please do come back to the here and now. These strikers were demonstrating to protect British workers rights & etc., and I think Mr. Clarkson might well agree that he can be a bit of a joke himself at the very best of times!
Dare I say it? I could not make it up! No wonder we are in such a sad state!
Before I go, my apologies to Genesis Housing Association, I have not written about you for a few weeks now, but that is for one extremely good reason.
Nothing has happened!
If ever anything does get done I will say so, I have promised, but to date, I am sorry to say it, but there is nothing to report!
Needless to say, there were a considerable number of people that chose to work, defying their coworkers picketing their workplace, crossing the picket lines and bravely working on.
Two items hit the headlines and both, to my mind, showed just how narrow minded and petty our so called union officials continue to be.
One was an e-mail that despite being rapidly withdrawn, drew condemnation from all sides, while the other was a comment on TV by a motoring correspondent, not known as a political animal, joking that the strikers be shot! Publicly!
The reaction? Beyond belief!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068742/Scab-jibe-workers-crossed-picket-lines-defy-strikers.html#ixzz1fPOKcREM
My thoughts follow:-
Both this and the reaction to Jeremy Clarkson's joke shows just how narrow minded the current crop of union 'leaders' are! Were I still a union member I would be resigning right now. I would never support a spokesman so thin skinned and humorless as are this bunch! With a mindset based firmly in the sixties, I do not believe any of them have ever seen that great movie 'I'm alright Jack!' Definitely recommended for any would be 'Union Leader', they would see then just how sad they really are, lacking focus and consequently losing the plot! I have not forgotten there are many tragic situations around the world, and I do truly grieve for those that suffer so tragically, but please do come back to the here and now. These strikers were demonstrating to protect British workers rights & etc., and I think Mr. Clarkson might well agree that he can be a bit of a joke himself at the very best of times!
Dare I say it? I could not make it up! No wonder we are in such a sad state!
Before I go, my apologies to Genesis Housing Association, I have not written about you for a few weeks now, but that is for one extremely good reason.
Nothing has happened!
If ever anything does get done I will say so, I have promised, but to date, I am sorry to say it, but there is nothing to report!
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