Has bureaucracy gone totally mad in this country?

[DirkDiggler]

A prime example of this stupidity is the taxi driver rejected for a job in Bournemouth because he failed to put an apostrophe in the right place.Ye gods, if job applications up and down the country were dependent on this sort of thing, given the current standard of education, there would be mass unemployment!If the guy is a competent driver with excellent knowledge of the borough, a clean driving licence and good references, then that alone should be the right criteria for the job.Bournemouth Borough Council: GET A LIFE YOU BUNCH OF PRATS!

[ruthaford_jive9912]

It's bureaucracy... what do you expect? Though, that does seem a bit extreme.

[PeterC1653]

The application form is the first part of a very lengthy process of getting a job. If he can't complete a job application form in correctly, what does that show to the company about the person?

[wizard_of_ease]

do you have any examples of a sane bureaucracy?

[oldknowall1192]

Once upon a time, you could decide on which candidate should get the job by which one you liked the most. Now, that's discriminatory. You have to have to make objective observation assessments (that means you have a clipboard with a list and you tick them off - whoever gets the most ticks gets the job.) So there were two candidates and this one didn't get a tick for spelling. If they'd given him the job, the other candidate would have sued. "They gave the job to that idiot and he can't even spell."

[DRDEAL]

The more that you feel this persons lack of education is do to lack of jobs, just look at where the jobs are at. China, and the money too.

[AndyB0738]

Yet Lee won The Apprentice, yet he kant even spel and laid on his CV.As they say, if it floats, then you might want to flush it quick.

[waldo_mcginty9100]

Agreed.It’s always difficult to comment on these things without resorting to expletives. That allows the Council or whoever to become defensive. None of these organisations like to be criticised and rolling up into a ball becomes the natural reaction. They don’t like being caught out in the open or (even worse) don’t think they have done anything wrong and are not very good at handling criticism. Almost no-one in the organisations is ever held to individual account for their actions or in-activity.This is one of the great perks of a council (or any public sector ) job. We all know what you mean by “bureaucracy gone mad” but I don’t think it’s just they’ve gone too far in an isolated incident. All of these stories (and the many many more we do not hear about) are a direct result of the way these organisations are constituted – the procedures they are paid to enforce and the type of people they employ.

[CLIVEH8039]

Yeah - if a taxi driver cannot spell, how the hell is he supposed to teach a cab-load of kids being taken to skool?I have now put Bournemouth (resort thereof) on my punishment list. We will never ever go there on holiday, nor for a day or under any circumstances what-so-ever.When King George V died, the last words he uttered were, "Bugger Bogner". I think he meant Bugger Bawnmiff.

[rommel2253]

your right. this country has become insane under the labour party.