How do you lose a laptop at home?
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HMRC staff apparently managed it 334 times over the last three years. Lost 1670 phones too!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13443529/...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13443529/...
vikingaero said:
Easy. Get pished. Take the train home. Wake up without laptop/phone.
More like this. Anyway, amongst all the stats, why doesnt the DM also tell us that about 67,500 people work for HMRC all over the place instead of quoting Jacob Reese Mogg and going on about Grade II listed buildings in Westminster?
Suspect a few will be stolen from cars or on public transport, muggings etc, plus a few damaged by spilling a brew on them or similar but they dont want to admit that so bin them. Plus, people leaving and not handing them back, devices left in cupboards/desks/server rooms and not accounted for.
Plus its over 6750 staff and covers three years.
DM Comments are hilarious, someone suggesting they are being stolen and sold, that would be an edge case having a job with HMRC and being that desperate for a laptop, maybe in the past when they were very expensive devices but they are ten a penny now, who wants to lose their job over a crappy, usually basic work laptop ? Someone suggested they are being given to family as Christmas Presents, nothing like a locked down government laptop that says thoughtful gift.
Plus its over 6750 staff and covers three years.
DM Comments are hilarious, someone suggesting they are being stolen and sold, that would be an edge case having a job with HMRC and being that desperate for a laptop, maybe in the past when they were very expensive devices but they are ten a penny now, who wants to lose their job over a crappy, usually basic work laptop ? Someone suggested they are being given to family as Christmas Presents, nothing like a locked down government laptop that says thoughtful gift.
J4CKO said:
DM Comments are hilarious, someone suggesting they are being stolen and sold, that would be an edge case having a job with HMRC and being that desperate for a laptop, maybe in the past when they were very expensive devices but they are ten a penny now, who wants to lose their job over a crappy, usually basic work laptop
Not everyone working at HMRC is on a big wage - https://www.accountancydaily.co/third-hmrc-workers...MikeM6 said:
Wonder how many were 'lost' due to burglaries, or lost by IT departments sending them out and never arriving?
It seems as though there is an anti working from home undertone here, but having a flexible workforce that doesn't need to commute every day isn't a bad thing.
It doesn't appear to be from a taxpayer perspective though.It seems as though there is an anti working from home undertone here, but having a flexible workforce that doesn't need to commute every day isn't a bad thing.
Rufus Stone said:
GT03ROB said:
Best bit in that article was....
"Attendance peaked at 62 per cent in the week beginning December 11"
.... they all came in for the Christmas parties then..... got pissed & lost their stuff on the way home....
Free food & drink no doubt."Attendance peaked at 62 per cent in the week beginning December 11"
.... they all came in for the Christmas parties then..... got pissed & lost their stuff on the way home....
Rufus Stone said:
HMRC staff apparently managed it 334 times over the last three years.
How? - Well start with employing 67,500 people
- Next give every single one of them a laptop so you have 67,500 laptops in use (HMRC policy is no desktops unless for very specialised use).
- Next tell every single one of them to take the laptop home 'just in case' so 67,500 are being transported around on buses and trains every day.
- Next pay the minimum wage to 1/3 of those staff so many are living in shared houses or homes of multiple occupation.
- And then perhaps you will lose 0.16% of them a year.
I wonder if the Daily Mail loses more than 0.16% of laptops a year?
SpidersWeb said:
How?
- Well start with employing 67,500 people
- Next give every single one of them a laptop so you have 67,500 laptops in use (HMRC policy is no desktops unless for very specialised use).
- Next tell every single one of them to take the laptop home 'just in case' so 67,500 are being transported around on buses and trains every day.
- Next pay the minimum wage to 1/3 of those staff so many are living in shared houses or homes of multiple occupation.
- And then perhaps you will lose 0.16% of them a year.
I wonder if the Daily Mail loses more than 0.16% of laptops a year?
exactly. our workplace insists you take the laptop home and not put it in your own locker..even if you're planning to come into work the next day.- Well start with employing 67,500 people
- Next give every single one of them a laptop so you have 67,500 laptops in use (HMRC policy is no desktops unless for very specialised use).
- Next tell every single one of them to take the laptop home 'just in case' so 67,500 are being transported around on buses and trains every day.
- Next pay the minimum wage to 1/3 of those staff so many are living in shared houses or homes of multiple occupation.
- And then perhaps you will lose 0.16% of them a year.
I wonder if the Daily Mail loses more than 0.16% of laptops a year?
That’s the thing with laptops, they are portable and when you can take things out with you or easily move them around it increases the risk of losing them or them getting stolen.
It’s just a clickbait story from a comedy news outlet who like to get their reader base wound up over nothing.
What is it with dome people who always seem to be on the right wing side of politics who despise people working from home?
It’s just a clickbait story from a comedy news outlet who like to get their reader base wound up over nothing.
What is it with dome people who always seem to be on the right wing side of politics who despise people working from home?
MikeM6 said:
It seems as though there is an anti working from home undertone here, but having a flexible workforce that doesn't need to commute every day isn't a bad thing.
Given the oft reported drop in performance, it would suggest that maybe there is rather less "working from home" & more goofing off at home going on. Nobody has a problem with people actually working from home. GT03ROB said:
MikeM6 said:
It seems as though there is an anti working from home undertone here, but having a flexible workforce that doesn't need to commute every day isn't a bad thing.
Given the oft reported drop in performance, it would suggest that maybe there is rather less "working from home" & more goofing off at home going on. Nobody has a problem with people actually working from home. Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff