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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Ciaran, Apr 20, 2020.

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    I can remember seeing back in the day that the biggest employers in the world were the Chinese Army, the Indian Railways and the NHS. I think these days, McDonald's must be up there, but it is ****ing ridiculous if the NHS do employ so many people. I used to be a medical engineer in GOSH for a few months before I got into bond trading.
     
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    they have to make sure they have enough diversity managers
     
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    crazed leftie hypocrites
     
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    Realistically, how many diversity managers have they got?
     
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    This is a long while ago, and I'm sure they'll have increased since.

    The NHS employed at least 826 public relations staff at an estimated cost of £34 million. It employed at least 165 equality and diversity staff at a cost of more than £6.8 million. It also employed at least 86 'green' staff costing around £3.5 million.10 Apr 2014

    https://www.hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/...-employing-equality-and-diversity-staff/51309
     
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    <laugh> if true, that is even beyond ****ing mental!
     
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    Makes you wonder what the **** HR do doesn't <laugh>
     
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    It's only a 10th of the extra cash Brexit makes the NHS a week. :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    Vote Conservative x
     
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    Rake it in, I would imagine!
     
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    Back in '76 I worked in admin for a Yankee Doodle oil company doing North Sea exploration. We had about eighty workers in the welding yard and three members of HR. That's around 4% of the work staff so I'm not sure that the NHS is far out. Just looked it up 1.5 million employees so you would expect them to have around 60,000 HR staff if they were to match a yee-har Yankee bandito set up.
     
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    I have no figures but I assume that the money distribution is the main thing that people are questioning.
     
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    Those figures were about £45m. I'm guessing that is far less than 4% of the NHS's budget. It's a ****ing drop in the ocean. An old man milked the country of that for walking his garden.
     
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    Tub's pals see us off for that much every day for tests they get wrong.
     
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