Tower of Babel Forum

Artinum · Zapper Messages: 184 Location: United Kingdom

This topic has less to do with Tower of Babel than a cosmetic zapper, but between the absence of posts recently and the fact I'm rather excited by this news I thought - what the hell!

Three months ago I received a telephone call from Leicestershire Constabulary. At this time I was still working for Thames Valley Police and looking for work in the Leicester area in readiness for a house move. This telephone call said that I had a job, pending security checks, so I was happy to resign from my current post and wait the 6-8 weeks before employment that the check would take. I had to give four weeks notice anyway.

[Note to those people assuming Britain has a unified police force, making transfers between areas simple and easy - ha ha ha ha ha! We wish!!]

I received a telephone call again two days ago. Finally the sloooooow wheels of beaurocracy have turned fully round and come up with the obvious - my check is clear. Why they had to check at all when I'd been working for another police force for two years I don't know.

So, I'm back in work from June 6th. HURRAH!!!

Artinum.

Fawlty · Mason Messages: 280 Location: Gütersloh

Congratulations, Andrew! Good to hear that your future is secured. A friend of mine just recently made her very own experiences with bureaucracy. She has Swiss citizenship, had been working for the Swiss embassy in Germany for years and is now about to move back to Switzerland. Of course she had to do some business with the German authorities before the move, and when she showed her passport she was suddenly told that her residence permit had expired eight years ago and she was now considered to be an illegal alien. Pointing out that embassy staff members don't need such a permit was no help at all. She was supposed to sign a couple of documents and pay a fine of 750 Euros, and her passport now includes an entry of a terminable residence permit for one year, making her look like some kind of suspect. Personal intervention by the Swiss ambassador finally made them cancel the fine. Oh well.

So, what you're trying to say is that you didn't work at all in the past few weeks? Where are all the new towers you built in that time?!?

Artinum · Zapper Messages: 184 Location: United Kingdom

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