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Coffer’s Corner
WINTER 2022
More Grief Anyone?
Well, nothing seems to have improved much does it? Ok, the instances and severity of Covid have reduced, but anger, discontent, apathy all seem to be alive and thriving.
Covid now seems to be the world’s greatest excuse for not getting things done. None of the Insurance Companies seem to have had a full complement of staff returning to work, in fact, I know some insurers actively encouraged personnel to leave, and now they are short staffed and are hastily trying to recruit.
Age old dilemma – training newbies takes experienced staff. Experienced staff are needed to train them, but are also needed to handle customers, but are too busy training newbies, in addition to attending the myriad meetings on SYSCO, Compliance, latest changes in insurance legislation, deciding on what biscuits they should have in reception etc. etc. to speak to their clientele.
This has become endemic across the piste. Try getting hold of anyone in the services industry on a Friday afternoon and you’ll see what I mean. Throw government departments into the mix and it gets farcical – you may as well ring them and wash the car whilst you’re left on hold.
Didn’t we used to have accountability? Didn’t people pride themselves in doing a good job?
There’s a tremendous amount of navel gazing and impassivity amongst a huge swathe of the working populace and in the face of rising costs and high inflation (8 BOE rating increases in just a single year!), who can blame a lot of them for feeling fed up and left to flounder in what will, undoubtedly be an extremely difficult few years.
Of course, if politics were taken out of the equation and people were left to sort themselves out, I dare say the level-
Don’t get me wrong – I believe anyone and everyone has a right to get rich by hard work and effort. It’s just that there are too many people on the gravy train who got a golden ticket just because they knew the right people.
Could we have feral gangs roaming the streets with clubs? It’s entirely possible if things get worse over time.
Let’s hope common sense prevails and we reconvene this time next year with Britain and who runs it having looked at what’s really important and made positive changes that benefit those who deserve it.
I’ll climb down from my soapbox now.
Oh yes! Nearly forgot – insurance! Remember – check your pipes for lagging, keep the house at a minimum temperature if going away over the festive break, leave random lights on timers if out for extended periods. Burglars target the holiday period to break into houses, though some statistics suggest the majority of burglaries occur during the daytime which cannot be the case, as a burglary is defined as breaking into a house without the owner’s consent at night, as decided by Sir Matthew Hale, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the 17th century. I did try to obtain confirmation of this from The Law Society but I’m still on hold waiting to be put through so I’m off to wash my car…
A very merry, peaceful and fun-
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