Following the comment about maintenance of the garden, I heard another little titbit today relating to the Jubilee Garden and I hope they don't mind me passing it on.
Brian as you may know is the groundsman for the Parish Council. He litter picks the playing field daily, clears the glass and bottles left lying around and clears the graffiti away (probably on a daily basis) and then goes on to litter pick the rest of the village. He works 10 hours a week so he is quite busy and active considering his age.
Apparently this wasn't good enough, they wanted him to weed the Jubilee Garden as well and when he told them it wasn't his job and he didn't have the time with the other jobs, they had the cheek to ask him into the Misterton Centre for a Disciplinary hearing, conducted by the clerk. I also have it on good authority that they produced a picture of a weed to show him. Now if they had got a decent membrane down on the garden, they wouldn't have needed to weed for a long time. Instead they got some cheap stuff that hasn't lasted five minutes. All fur coat and no knickers springs to mind.
Finally to add insult to injury, the clerk, an employee of the council, did the interview, not the Chairman of the Council. Well there is a copy of their Disciplinary Procedure on the website and informal or formal it is the responsibility of the Chairman to conduct interviews.
Getting back to the garden, I suggest that them that designed it get down on their knees once a week and weed it or spend the extra cash and get a better membrane and leave Brian alone and give him a pay rise when they have that Strategic Review Committee meeting.
What else do you expect from this lot.They have no idea how to conduct business affairs correctly.Too busy sticking their heads in the sand and taking instructions from the main person who appears to have a bee in his bonnet.Don't know why he should be acting in this way but I assume someone in the long distant past has upset him.He was perhaps in a high position at one time and was dumped which has put a huge chip on his shoulder so he is taking it out on everyone else. SAD!!
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