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CIVIL servants have revealed how they SKIVE OFF work and MOCK immigrants - in a flood of astonishing messages on Facebook.
The candid online exchanges between staff from the Home Office and the Department for Work & Pensions will hugely embarrass the government.
They BRAG about a culture of getting drunk and having sex at work; ADMIT phoning and emailing friends all day; and LAUGH about reading people's private files.
Public anger is mounting towards civil servants who are feather-bedded from the unemployment sweeping the country and who end their working days with gold-plated pensions.
But that will scarcely worry the Facebook group called "Home Office Workers" who boast of clocking up fewer hours than private sector staff.
One ex-employee says: "Awesome days of going on bifter breaks every 10 mins. Sitting on the internet all day. Phoning mobiles. Emailing mates."
A group called the Home Office Posse, which has 54 members, say their forum is: "For the hours spent laughing at fake photos of immigrants".
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One girl in the "Lunar House" group - HQ of the UK Border Agency in Croydon, south London - writes of "the dirty girls that do things in toilets."
Another adds: "Some-one's written on one of the toilet doors that they like to be spanked on their bottom, lol" (laugh out loud).The chat also reveals how the over-stretched Job Centre Plus network is close to breaking point.
Workers say it is "impossible" to help because they are only allowed five minutes with each jobseeker.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We expect the highest standards of conduct from our staff. The comments bear no relation to daily life here."
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A couple of years ago I worked at the Department of Work and Pensions for about 6 months as a temporary admin assistant.
Apart from a diligent minority of mainly older workers I've never seen such a workshy bunch. Use of the internet was restricted (slightly) but the management were simply incompetent. Sickness levels were high, the dress code was non-existent, lunch breaks were as long as you liked and people spoke to their bosses in a way that would get you instant dismissal at a private company. About half the staff claimed to have some special need such as being unable to work near a light, or by a window or for more than 30 minutes sat down at a stretch. The office was noisy and the sound of laughter and loud, obviously non-work related conversations was always easily audible to the 'managers' but they did nothing - more often than not they behaved in the same manner themselves.
The place seemed more like a job creation scheme for the unemployable rather than an office to do a useful job.
By simon.. Posted June 27 2009 at 9:31 PM.
Reading this story as really help me to understand why i am sat at home penniless and unemployed.
I am been unemployed since march and have found the help from the local works and pensions office an absolute nightmare. I went to them for help with getting jobseekers and was turned down, they do not volanteer any information and treat you as if you are something off the bottom of there shoe.
I was tod the same a couple of years ago " you are not entitled to any money" but they never bothered to tell me i should have signed on to pay national insurance which would would of entitled me to claim jobseekers now, i have only just found that out, if they would have informed me properly in the first place at least i would have some help now.
It discusting that people who are employed in these positions can get away with the way they treat people, maybe this is why there is so much fraud going on in there systems because thet can't be bothered to check.
From my experience they don't help people who are interested in finding work and the only people you see in these places are either trying to make a claim or who are bothered about getting work and go to look at the vacancies on the computers whilst the hardcore stay at home in bed.
Might be a good idea in the boss goes under cover here, like the program on tv,he might just learn something.
sick of this country
Chriso
Manchester
By Chriso.. Posted June 21 2009 at 1:29 PM.