Public sector

[AtW]

If it was up to the Spartans most of you wouldn't have survived school and we'd all live in wooden huts.

At least they did not have bankrupt pension system though ...

[threaded]

Shut up you weak minded fool - if it wasn't for Greece (and Sparta specifically) you'd be speaking Persian now!

Well, the Athenians, especially a guy called Themistocles also had something to do with it.

If it was up to the Spartans most of you wouldn't have survived school and we'd all live in wooden huts.

[AtW]

I don't think that's true.

DimPrawn would be speaking Persian because that would be the only way for him to kiss arse of his masters in order to make his first million of dinars

[AtW]

Maybe we can still merge with Iran ?

They'd have to march through Greece first and they've already tried it once, the tunnel under La Manche is even more narrow - andyW could stop them there single handedly ...

[Green Mango]

I don't think that's true. Contrary to stereotype, the Persians were rather chillaxed and were quite happy for their conquerees to keep their own language, religion and customs as long as they paid their tributes on time. They get a pretty good write-up in the Old Testament for stopping the Babylonians giving the Jews too much of a hard time, and stumping up for major temple renovations.

Maybe we can still merge with Iran ?

[thunderlizard]

I don't think that's true. Contrary to stereotype, the Persians were rather chillaxed and were quite happy for their conquerees to keep their own language, religion and customs as long as they paid their tributes on time. They get a pretty good write-up in the Old Testament for stopping the Babylonians giving the Jews too much of a hard time, and stumping up for major temple renovations.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Shut up you weak minded fool - if it wasn't for Greece (and Sparta specifically) you'd be speaking Persian now!

Nice one.

[AtW]

Shut up you weak minded fool - if it wasn't for Greece (and Sparta specifically) you'd be speaking Persian now!

[thunderlizard]

It has been estimated that they have 10,000 employees and cost nearly £200m a year

Bargain. How many RBS civil servants are we getting for £200m?

[DimPrawn]

Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens

On Planet Greece, some civil servants get a bonus for turning up to work on time. Foresters get a bonus for working outdoors. At least they show up.

There are civil servants called ghost workers because they never go into the office, head to a second job and still claim a state salary. They can't get sacked, because a civil service post is for life. Unless the incumbent decides to retire in his or her forties, with a pension.

And the government can continue paying for the afterlife. Unmarried and divorced daughters of civil servants are entitled to collect their dead parents pensions. Another lucrative sinecure is to belong to a state committee. The government has no idea how many there are.

It has been estimated that they have 10,000 employees and cost nearly £200m a year, and that includes the committee to manage a lake that dried up 80 years ago.



Question is though, do they have enough diversity outreach technicians?