tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post1185499172657833100..comments2023-03-27T10:54:13.350-07:00Comments on Winston Smith: More Pointless Pieces of Paper part 1WinstonSmith33http://www.blogger.com/profile/15780806194174659730noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-30193623758968545292011-04-10T19:57:47.460-07:002011-04-10T19:57:47.460-07:00Do you really want those sorts of people in the Ar...Do you really want those sorts of people in the Army? Think about the decent people who would have to live and work with them.<br /><br />Just drop them on an island where they can survive (or not) on their own work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-64146199120834341172011-03-09T05:59:24.572-08:002011-03-09T05:59:24.572-08:00Bring back old-fashioned army national service for...Bring back old-fashioned army national service for these people...<br />no paperwork, just common sense!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-40416756911689319872011-03-05T12:29:48.805-08:002011-03-05T12:29:48.805-08:00Rinzler (oh dear, I thought you fought for the use...Rinzler (oh dear, I thought you fought for the users :P), Winston - I am a lawyer in that sort of area and as such am probably one of the "hippies" that you fulminate about. However, just because of public law and human rights considerations doesn't mean it's impossible or super hard to evict people like this. You can be as strict as you want as long as you are fair about it.<brZenobianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-40431687208591944622011-03-05T11:47:06.537-08:002011-03-05T11:47:06.537-08:00The simple fact is that all of the existing system...The simple fact is that all of the existing systems merely prolong the suffering of the victims, whoever, or wherever, they may be. Endless letters and verbal warnings are useless in most cases. Whoever dreams up these dysfunctional systems to deal with dysfunctional problems should have the toe-rags living in THEIR neighbourhood and live the nightmare of ASB and death threats and damage to Cerberushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764286370235864110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-20428557434432875252011-03-03T04:03:03.776-08:002011-03-03T04:03:03.776-08:00Winston - your blog is great. How does someone li...Winston - your blog is great. How does someone like you who sees all the stupidity in the system manage to stay sane working within it? Why haven't you given it up and become a computer programmer or something?David Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-36499633330939997192011-03-02T10:33:50.558-08:002011-03-02T10:33:50.558-08:00Like the Behaviour Contracts we have in schools. M...Like the Behaviour Contracts we have in schools. Meaningless! Waste of a good tree. <br /><br />My bugbear is the use of the word 'acceptable' in these contexts. If yob A does something vile and all we do is yak their ears off then we have bloomin' accepted it no matter how much we label it 'unacceptable'. Duh.jaljenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04247152786071106210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-51151543446113501792011-03-02T05:41:38.605-08:002011-03-02T05:41:38.605-08:00Yes supported housing "licencee's" h...Yes supported housing "licencee's" have an excluded licence agreement (something the hippies at shelter would love to see the end of) and in theory this document makes evictions a piece of cake.<br /><br />Unless of course the licencee decides to stay put on the day their licence ends. Then things get very tricky indeed. I know of one ongoing case where the licence ended 8 months. Rinzlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-31167668941435308422011-03-01T09:56:28.156-08:002011-03-01T09:56:28.156-08:00@Defence brief,
Yes, the residents in Supported H...@Defence brief,<br /><br />Yes, the residents in Supported Housing have less rights than a normal tenancy as they live under a licence agreement. It is easy to evict them for violence or threats of violence. However, for repeated non payment of rents and persistent anti-social beahviour towards other residents and staff they will usually be given numerous verbal warnings, three written warnings WinstonSmith33https://www.blogger.com/profile/15780806194174659730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-47452354681091637012011-03-01T05:00:20.804-08:002011-03-01T05:00:20.804-08:00Rinzler, I think you may be wrong about the law no...Rinzler, I think you may be wrong about the law not being on your side when considering evictions. I'm not a housing lawyer but so far as I understand the position, if a tenant has breached the terms of the lease then the landlord can evict. I have heard somewhere that in these supporting living homes the residents do not have tenancy agreements in any place and instead live on the site Defence Briefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06385869501459309601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-5739488122182618762011-02-28T05:41:19.451-08:002011-02-28T05:41:19.451-08:00Yes, they do sound the same as our own equivalent ...Yes, they do sound the same as our own equivalent at my organisation. I think the principle behind them is fine (although whether anybody is stupid enough to need their infringements spelling out after several warnings is debatable) what I take issue with is the fact that a resident can be issued with one, fail it miserably, and then have no consequence.<br /><br />To be fair to the organisation,Rinzlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-79018295907558860932011-02-28T05:10:58.827-08:002011-02-28T05:10:58.827-08:00Management will probably seek an ASBO to deal with...Management will probably seek an ASBO to deal with the old lady...the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-44377480113695444922011-02-27T11:57:25.082-08:002011-02-27T11:57:25.082-08:00Hi Rinzler,
ABCs are utterly useless. They are us...Hi Rinzler,<br /><br />ABCs are utterly useless. They are usually issued after you have already verbally requested and perhaps have written several official warnings to the person concerned.<br /><br />It is just another useless piece of paper repeating things you have already stated to the lout on other pieces of paper and verbally. What is more a contract by its nature involves two parties WinstonSmith33https://www.blogger.com/profile/15780806194174659730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-82704258892615564522011-02-27T11:54:59.719-08:002011-02-27T11:54:59.719-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.WinstonSmith33https://www.blogger.com/profile/15780806194174659730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224377669164135329.post-31989326282553992552011-02-27T11:07:24.047-08:002011-02-27T11:07:24.047-08:00Winston, as supported housing worker myself, I hav...Winston, as supported housing worker myself, I have to ask whether theses ABC's are ever properly enforced at your organisation? Our own equivalent 'sanction' of this kind has become such a joke, I feel that putting one in place does more harm than good.Rinzlernoreply@blogger.com