first line fix money?

torman · Post by **torman** » 17 Sep 2008, 17:56

does anyone know if we still get first line fix money,or has it ceased. i only ask as we filled in our have your say forms,& there was a question about it. in my office no one knows what it is ever spent on these days!

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 17 Sep 2008, 18:49

It's being used for the managers bonus scheme

Post by **Carnoustie** » 17 Sep 2008, 22:37

Had to laugh when someone asked last year what was happening with our first-line-fix money.
Manager was giving the usual 'I'll have to get back to you' response when one of my mates interrupted him to say he'd heard it was all earmarked for a brand new set of carpets.
Puzzled, the manager says 'New carpets? What new carpets?'
My mate pipes up 'You know, to replace the ones that are bent out of shape from all the stuff that's been swept under 'em lately'

Happy days

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 17 Sep 2008, 22:59

Carnoustie wrote:Had to laugh when someone asked last year what was happening with our first-line-fix money.
Manager was giving the usual 'I'll have to get back to you' response when one of my mates interrupted him to say he'd heard it was all earmarked for a brand new set of carpets.
Puzzled, the manager says 'New carpets? What new carpets?'
My mate pipes up 'You know, to replace the ones that are bent out of shape from all the stuff that's been swept under 'em lately'

Happy days

That's brilliant

I've got to remember that one

paul_skinback · Post by **paul_skinback** » 22 Sep 2008, 20:34

torman wrote:does anyone know if we still get first line fix money,or has it ceased. i only ask as we filled in our have your say forms,& there was a question about it. in my office no one knows what it is ever spent on these days!

We do

Today a small TV with video, plus cabinet arrived with an arial thats bigger than the TV! Tommorow a DVD and Freebox player thingybob arrives. Today we watched telly tubbies but the rest of the week wont have time. (gutted) I love tiddly winky.

This is in addition to the big massive 900 inch Plasma LCD crap that cost RM 8 bloody grand per orafice hanging/wobbling from our ceiling. In the reare times it is switched on, it just tells us stupid stuff like wear sun cream or drink lots of water. Its as if we are all NUMPTIES. Why ain't Little and Large ( :cfo :lfo ) got one then?

Yahoorsur · Post by **Yahoorsur** » 23 Sep 2008, 19:29

torman wrote:does anyone know if we still get first line fix money,or has it ceased. i only ask as we filled in our have your say forms,& there was a question about it. in my office no one knows what it is ever spent on these days!

Now thats a coincidence as today at our WTLL session,the last item was FLF,and did we have any ideas how to spend the money?
Now that came as a 'f' ing big surprise to me as a couple of years ago I was told by a manager that ,it was no longer operating and was finished,this begs the question,if this scheme is still running whats happened to the money over the last couple of years?,I know that the budget was held in Edinburgh,and that,no money as such was dished out,but in my office it seems strange that the managers got mini fridge,kettle etc,
I think im going to dig a bit deeper on this,maybe in the first instance write to the DOM,then to the IB,(anyone got an address),and of course to our great leader i'll just ask Alan.

norbert · Post by **norbert** » 25 Sep 2008, 10:34

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:It's being used for the managers bonus scheme

best one was fixing the "Morale Boosting Draw " for a non union shifty , unpopular ex manager's (later the IB asked him to resign or we'll prosecute

) son to win a car in a Lancashire Milltown zoo.

Nobody expected anything less

harrybean · Post by **harrybean** » 05 Nov 2008, 09:44

our FLF was used to put carpet in the offices upstairs and deep clean the toilets. this year we lost it because we didnt claim it ?