The Poolie Bunker

School 1968 vs. School 2008
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> > Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
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> > 1968 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
> > mates.
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> > 2008 - Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests
> > Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence.
> > They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are
> > suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and
> > parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.
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> > Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.
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> > 1968 - Jeffrey is sent to the Head's office and given 6 of the best.
> > Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
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> > 2008 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death.
> > Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADDS. School gets extra funding because
> > Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school.
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> > Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his Dad
> > gives him the slipper.
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> > 1968 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
> > college, and becomes a successful businessman.
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> > 2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to
> > foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy's sister that
> > she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.
> > Billy's mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a
> > promotion.
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> > Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school .
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> > 1968 - Mark shares a smoke with the school Head out on the smoking area.
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> > 2008 - Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug
> > possession. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.
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> > Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English.
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> > 1968 - Mohammed studies harder, improves his English, retakes his exam,
> > passes and goes to college.
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> > 2008 - Mohammed's cause is taken up by local human rights group.
> > Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a
> > requirement for graduation is racist. Civil Liberties Association files
> > class action lawsuit against state school system and his English
> > teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his
> > qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he
> > cannot speak English.
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> > Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a
> > model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.
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> > 1968 - Ants die.
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> > 2008 - MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged
> > with perpetrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents,
> > siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and
> > Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly
> > again.
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> > Scenario: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher,
> > Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.
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> > 1968 - Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.
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> > 2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.
> > She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of
> > therapy. Turns gay.


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I'd like to see the scenarios of the future...........................ok Snowy, over to you, nobody has the same imagination for a job like this...................................

Sad but so, so true......

Here's bit of difference:

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Se ... 3761863.jp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/f ... is.namibia

Just read the first paragraph of the second one.

Fookin' nauseating.

This is a true case from the 60's in an accident book, .... a young lady had tripped over some boxes of paper in her office left in the corridor by the delivery driver. The book recorded that she was treated for a sprained ankle and sent to hospital, it also records that she should be more careful in future and look where she was walking, further acts of carelessness could result in disciplinary action.

What pisses me right off now, is the way every office wallah has to redesignate their job title or function....y'know, we used to have a personnel dept, but now it's 'human resources'... or 'HR' as they just love to call it. What over preening pompous tw*t thought up that one?
Another real piss off is the meeting where they gather round the flip chart and spend hours rabbiting on in geek speak about their 'roles' and 'projections' and achieve jack shit...then have the brass neck to call it a .....'workshop' a workshop, the phrase used to give the amassed wasted hours a veneer of actual work or achievement...more coffee anyone?....