[dribs and drabs] three for your consideration

This is more an Angus-type post with a few topics in one, none of which have enough material for a whole post.

Wallasey

I've been hearing a tale today about Wirral Council and how they had a shopping centre, Wallasey, some fifteen years ago, which they destroyed through a series of parking permit gaffes. Now I can't comment on that one way or the other, not living over that way but this was interesting at the Wirral Globe:

B Daly, Birkenhead says... 12:17pm Fri 17 Jul 09

Wirral Council have spent years destroying Woodside with improvements now they are abandoning Hamilton Square and have no intention of improving the conditions for any company or business in the local area by providing free parking for local people or even provide adequate parking instead they have a plan to drive out small businesses and destroy any form of successful regeneration.

Wirral Council is happy to demolish entire communities so long as they can collect money from the European Union or the very people they are meant to serve and actually pay there wages.

In short you will pay through the nose to park your car if you can find a space and if you cant they have that covered by camera cars and wardens all to help you shop and do your banking elsewhere. Its nice to know that your council tax is doing so much to help you and neighbours and not just lining the pockets of councilors and other officials.

Sound familiar? The story I was getting today is that after the centre collapsed, except for a scattered few businesses, the parking restrictions still applied and apply to this day. May Wirral Council would like to rebut that.

Teflon Colleagues

Rick, at Flip Chart Fairy Tales, has a good piece today on the teflon boys:

Whatever happened, they were never blamed for anything, even when it was clearly their fault. I began to wonder whether they had guardian angels. Others would get reprimanded or even disciplined but the behaviour of the Teflon Men (and in all but one case they have been men) was never challenged.

In one case, the person’s behaviour was so bad that people refused to work with him. As soon as he had a large project to deliver, everyone suddenly became very busy and disappeared. Reasonably sound stories from his previous employer indicated that he had been much the same there. Yet he had managed to convince a number of people that he was a ’rainmaker’. I never saw any evidence of this but it seemed to be a legend that had stuck; “Yes, we know he can be a pain but he does bring in the business.”

Unfortunately, I have the opposite problem. Whatever someone says sticks, irrespective of the evidence and so I've got to the stage where I don't give a rat's a... what anyone says ... unless it's true, of course.

Assuming it's us

I went into my local chippie the other day, after a month's absence and the guy was not happy with me, so much so that he went through to the other room and let his colleague serve me. It wasn't even my fault [completely] - it was the girl I usually go in there with half the time.

Anyway, yesterday I went in again and he was all smiles, laughing and joking about his holidays. My mate said later that that's what people always do - feel that someone else's problem is somehow because of them.

Lateral thinking at Theo's

Lost your tools? She might just be using them. LOL. Rate the sanity level of that girl.