[modeleng] Re: copy of message
- From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:46:28 +1000
Thanks AJ - I was just trying to figure out how to repost that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "alanjstepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:24 PM
Subject: [modeleng] copy of message
> The following message was sent by Pendragon (Ian Priest), but for some
reason, bounced.
> Not sure why. Oh the "joys" of computers and the Internet!
> alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.alanstepney.info
> Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway technical pages.
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> Should I say allo, allo, allo, as chaps you see I am one of the hapless
> creatures 'plod', I have been so for some 15 years having worked in
> industry [heavy forge] prior for 12 years, I can with a degree of
> honesty say the industrial bit was the easiest.
>
> Please don't blame the plod chap you see at your door, walking down the
> high street, arresting criminals, chatting and reassuring the public and
> all the other myriad things that plod does [or not as the case may be]
> as he is very much on the bottom wrong of the ladder. He takes the
> brunt of the criticism from his senior officers [note not superior] when
> the figures are down and the grief from the public to boot.
>
> I believe the British plod is a victim of bureaucrats and politicians
> who want to see results and not to mention a rain forests worth of
> paperwork for the simplest cases, he is governed by persons trying to
> make the service run like just like a business when in reality it's a
> person job and figures on paper don't always tally.
>
> I enjoy my job despite the groans, and please chaps remember this ~~~~
> when you see something you don't like or something that turns your guts
> over what do you do, who do you phone........and remember this, plod who
> turn up on your doorstep might just have come from one of those
> incidents, so bite yer tongue it aint his fault as you will discover
> over a cup of char that the plod you are talking to is just, if not more
> frustrated with the system as you are.
>
> Regards IP
>
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