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We have been asked by several readers how they can identify workplace bullies. We are getting together some hand outs which should be available soon in your local centres,but in the meantime we will briefly sumerise the main characteristics of the workplace bully.

]A bully needs to control people

2]A workplace bully doesn’t want to hear the other side of the story.

3] Makes inappropriate comments about appearance,lifestyle.

4]Distorts truth and reality

5]Charming in public-two faced

6]Makes your life difficult

7]Demeans your role.

8]Yells and screams at you-uses abusive language.

There are a few more characteristics,but we hope this gives you some understanding of the workplace bully. Some of our previous posts go into greater detail and it may be worth reading them. You can also print them off.We are in the process of getting together handouts on this most evil of workplace issues.They will be ready shortly and we hope to have them in centres city and community wide. 

Have you heard the latest beauty,from one of McConnell’s advisers. Mr. Steven Melrose who is based in America and advises the First Minister on the arts has come up with a cracker to beat all crackers. He has suggested that Holywood style lettering should be erected on Arthurs Seat,spelling out Holyrood of course.

Why not go the whole hog and have a red carpet for our MSP’s,and we could have a yearly oscar bash. It tugs at the imagination to visalise Andy Bell Goldie in a evening dress or Alex portly Salmond in his Hugo Boss Tuxedo. We hope this dude does not get paid for this kind of advice,we will give you some advice for free. Cut the crap and get on with the job.

In 1973 America signed a ceasefire to end its miltary action in Vietnam. In 2007 America and Britain find themselves bogged down in a similar sort of conflict in the Middle East with no sign of an end to hostilities. George Bush has run out of ideas on what to do,that is of course if you believed he had any in the first place. Tony i’ll retire eventually Blair just goes with the flow,as it will soon be someone elses problem.

Thousands are dying needlessly and we lurch from one crisis to another. There were no weapons of mass destruction,this in case you have forgotton was the excuse used to invade Iraq and capture their oil reserves. Capitalism is running this war and  Bushes oil buddies are making the policy,mainly on the hoof.

This is Blair’s and the Labour party’s nemisis.He is at a lose to know what to do,and tries to lie to the people about the reality of the situation. Iraq was not our business. If the people wanted rid of Saddam then it was up to them,we had no business getting involved.

Wasn’t it us and America that armed Iraq when it went to war with Iran. Short memories there then. Did we not have a murky hand in the supplies of the gas that killed the Kurds.

Our excuse about democracy is a pretty thin one,since Kuwait was hardly a bastion of democracy when Iraq invaded there. But that was forgotton as the arabs have the tap that turns off the oil,so Kuwait became our best friend. American firms get the contracts to rebuild Iraq, while the people suffer and die in this terrible carnage.

It is time to be bold and admit we were wrong to invade Iraq,make the peace and get out before it is really to late,just like the Americans did in 1973. 

Mr. Dinse writes in the letters page of the Evening news something PiltonSucks.com has been saying for a while,that that local community are excluded from having any say in the goings on down at the dandy Waterfront. Growing impatience with the secrecy of this lot is plain to see. There never has been any commitment of any kind to the local community,and there isn’t likely to be in the forseeable future.

It is as we all know a money making exercise helped by the council who are doing their best to exclude the existing community. We are alledgedly represented on the Waterfront board by councillors Mcginnis,Fitzpatrick and Perry with Waterfront Liz chairing the board[where does she get the time] You would think that the peoples party representatives would be arguing for more community representation,quite the opposite. Meaningless seminars that nobody pays a blind bit of attention to,merely patronising to keep the punters quite.

We are in real danger of losing our world heritage status due to over development and the grants which comes with it. And who sits on the heritage board,our old friend Trevor fingers Davies the planning guru,and friend of the developers. Of course the armchair experts will tell you that Granton is not a world heritage site,if it was we would have lost that status by now. But the old town is,and our city protectors  want to turn it into the Blackpool of the East.

So if they get their way as they appear to be in Granton,they will destroy the Old Town. So not only are the local community geting stuffed by their representatives over the Waterfront deal,they are trying to downgrade this city completly and turn it into a fun park. We have in many ways only ourselves to blame,it is unfair to blame our elected members,after all we put them there,but we can still save the day and boot them out.

Our trust has been betrayed,more than once and it is time to take stock and make our voices heard. The Waterfront development could have been a windfall for all,instead it is but only for a few. The community has been conned and will continue to be conned until they take matters into their own hands. The politicians are just laughing at us as they cosy up to the developers and shut out the community.

This is a deliberate policy,and to date a successful one.If we cut through the lies and bullshit the reality is clear,our elected protectors don’t want the local community involved except at the fringes,otherwise we might find out the truth and do something about it.

It is all very well being a head nodder and a forelock tugger,but you are laughed at to.Those that choose that road are mistaken and do the community down. If you want to do something be constructive,hold the politicians to account for their lack of action and ignoring the wishes of the community. 

Remember this. If you choose to stay quite and are happy to have the politicians clap you on the back,we all lose you as well. We urge all the voters of Greater Pilton or the Forth ward as it is now called to come out and send those that would do us down a message-your time is up,you had your chance, so we are going to retire you as you will not go gracefully. GOODBY.      

Our Trade and Industry secretary has informed the people of Greater Pilton from on high that there are nine sub-post office round the Granton area. When was the last time he graced us with his majestic presence. There are no such thing and who ever is advising him is talking bollocks.

Around 2500 post offices are set to close or more to the point to be axed,across the UK in a seemingly night of the long knives attitude. Mr. Darling himself an Edinburgh MP should think or at least do his research before he opens his mouth. Post offices in communities like Greater Pilton are in many ways a lifeline particularly for the elderly and infirm.

Leave well alone. Our post offices offer a comprehensive service to the community and if they didn’t the public would soon let them know.The post office queue is an infamous tradition and if Mr.Darling gets his way the queues would only get longer.

G.Ramsay-Pilton Sucks.com

The communitys juices are flowing as the elections both national and local are upon us. Not long before the candidates reluctantly have to walk the streets in search of votes. The voters appear to be in hibernation if the previous voting figures are anything to go by.

The Labour party are tired and worn out with no ideas to run with and look set for an overdue hiding. What of the rest of them The Tories,well enuf said. The SNP are riding high in the polls,that is until they have to answer a difficult question-how will they pay for their independant paranoia? The Lib-Dems,nobody seems to know what they believe in,don’t think they do either.

But it is locally where the fun for us commences. We know that Malcolm principles Chischolm is standing yet again for the Scottish Parliament,[where are all the new people]Bill nowght to do with me fitzpatrick and empress Mcginnis will fly the worn out labour flag for the umpteenth time,hoping not only to beat each other but secure enough votes to scrape back in. Steven jump ship before it sinks Cardownie will represent the SNP and hope to get enough support to secure one of the places available.

We are unsure who the unlucky punter will be that represents the no-policy Lib-Dems.

And that just leaves A.N.another whoever they may be. But let us use our vivid imagination and try and project the potential winners in all this STV nonsense. The Labour party will as usual be out in limited force,as their numbers continue to dwindle leaving just the die hards and the wannabees to swamp the community with their tall tales and false promises. It is hard to imagine them campaigning in the community as they tried to flog off the tennants houses from under them and call it a good deal. Couldn’t con the punters there then.

As we have already said we are still the proud custodians of poor housing,high unemployment, pot holed streets and crazy paving to walk on. The private sector are building our new schools which we will have to lease back off them for a small fortune,good deal eh. Still no local jobs of any note on the Waterfront development and none likely,makes that 9000 jobs figure look like a right laugh now. Still we have our knight in shining armour Ray joined up Harris who will lead us to the promised land[what happened to him then]

And of course Mr. principles himself the guardian of our moral souls and back bench rebel,Malcolm Chisholm. His halo is stuck firmly to his head and a hurrican wind would not blow it off. It is difficult to remember the last time Mr. principles walked round this part of the consituency just to say hello and chat to people. It is not in his aloof character,but you will soon be sick of the sight of him as he trys to shore up his majority.

These are the candiates with the exception of jump ship Cardownie who are the present incumbants and they have the bare faced cheek to ask for your vote once again. Breathtaking arrogance,with a track record they should be ashamed of. The real fun if that is the right word is the cut throating that will be going on in this new voting system.

Be in no doubt that the ruthless empress will try and cut Bill Bailie out of the picture such is her overwhelming desire to get back in at any cost. We are sure she will not try and break the law by using PEP buses to take the plebs to the polling stations,but we will be watching anyway just in case of foul play. We are sure there will be no biting ,scratching and low blows,but who knows,no doubt the empress has already been out and about with that false smile trying to drum up support,and try and cut Billy boy out of the equation.

So imagine if you will Messers Chisholm,Fitzpatrick, and Waterfront Liz walking hand in hand through the forth ward looking for votes. We hope they have borrowed steel helmets,if they haven’t then they had better avoid the high flats,you never know some disgruntled seagull might just take offence to being woken up and return the compliment with a sudden plop.

So as the punters worry over who to vote for and lose sleep in the process,we offer some bedtime thinking. We are the most overtaxed,underpaid, underskilled walked all over people in industrial Europe,but you have the consolation of a community charge rebate if you are poor,only thing is that under this Labour administration,the peoples administration it is means tested. We should subject these candidates to a means test and see how they come out.   

It seems incredible but true. A newspaper reporter employed by the News Of the Screws was jailed for four months because he tapped into the phone numbers of members of the Windsor mob or is it the sax coburg clan-who knows who cares.

Yet two convicted sex offenders get let off,this is madness. Regardless what the do-gooders might prattle on about these low-lifes should be put out of harms way. The two paedophiles in question Keith Morris and Derek Williams walked free while journalist Clive Goodman was jailed.

Justice is made a mockery of when this kind of madness goes on. Does not our beleagured home secretary understand that the public must be protected from fiends like williams and morris. Our wonderful royal family must be protected but our children cannot. Pensioners are jailed for non payment of the obscene council tax people with mental health problems are jailed,jail sentences are handed out like sweeties for non payment of fines.Is money so much more important than human life,it certainly looks like it.

We the voters may be to stupid to understand the details of the law,but we are the people the law is supposed to protect. John Mr. fix it Reid has shown he is not up to the job,this was shown to be the case with his pathetic performance on TV trying to justify his position. Criminal justice is in crisis,politicians are at a loss to know what to do.The system is at breaking point and all they can do is fiddle while Britain burns.

A quick fix is not the answer the problem has now become one of epic proportions and will take major surgery to repair. This problem is Scotlands as well and we need to deal with our creaking justice system.Building more prisons is not the answer,deterents need to come into play.The harsh reality is that criminals laugh at the law and then scream about their human rights,and the politically correct law makers give in.

A modern society has to move with the times and that includes the snail moving law.The people demand that criminals particularly serious criminals be punished and jailed for a long time so that society can be confident in the system.The very idea that sex offenders can be let off and allowed to walk free regardless of the circumstances is sickening to the stomach,and even our politically correct politicians know this,they also know that it will be reflected at the ballot box.

The  Labour government are lurching from one crisis to another and handing the batton to the opposition who just have to stand still and do nothing. The Tories must be laughing all the way to the ballot box,and many of us remember what a tory government was like. So the people must demand that the government get a grip of the situation and sort this mess out. We will all suffer in the end if they don’t. Yes New Labour was an invention of the media,but nothing can prepare us for the dreadful thought of David all things to all people Cameron living at number 10.               

Our old friend Dave Fatboy Hewitt,him of many jobs fame,was spotted running along Boswall Parkway recently. Now running and Dave don’t go together,so could it be that his lastest job as head honcho at the Health Project,is having a good effect on him,we do hope so,as it would be so much better for him to be eating healthy food and taking much needed exercise,instead of munching on pies and letting the grease drip all over his job applications.

But alas that does not seem to be the case. Dave our prat of the year runner up was in fact according to our source, running along to PEP where he had heard they were looking for a part time driver for one of their many buses. Looks like Dave was looking to do a bit of moonlighting.

We would advise the man of many jobs that driving one of the fleet of buses that PEP has at its disposal is a backward step, alternately he could wait and see if PEP places a job ad for a deputy to the empress herself,such is her workload. Dave could easily sneak into a role in the PEP empire, as long as he had his kneepads with him,for the morning worship at the alter of the empress who ruthlessly manages PEP for her own political ends.

Pilton Sucks .com has a better idea. If Dave is looking to fatten up his cv perhaps he could apply to collect the congestion charge that will surely be implemented in Greater Pilton such is the traffic problems caused by the amount of PEP buses on the road.  

Once again bullying both workplace and school have been highlighted on TV. In the sunday night drama Waterloo Road school bullying was brought to our screens,along side workplace bullying.Once again we see the bully in all his glory,this time in the guise of the new chair and benefactor of the school governers.

He takes a dislike to a teacher and forces him out,also putting a stop on the acting headmasters contract because he dosen’t see things the way he wants.Is this drama, imitating real life. It certainly looks like it as this piece was obviously well researched. We could have given them some pointers,concerning workplace bullying,certainly the part about taking a dislike to someone and forcing them out of the workplace.

The fact that workplace bullying in all its nasty forms has been given prime TV time makes it clear that not only is it a workplace problem where these jobsworth thugs are allowed to practice this criminal act,but it is now being put firmly in the public eye,and not before time.

What can be gleamed from this,is that no longer can this criminal act be allowed to go unpunished,no longer can workplace bullying be covered up,its out in the open alongside the thugs who carry out these dreadful acts. The famous saying -one small step for man,one giant leap for mankind,does not overstate the public airing of bullying. It is grim to watch,it is hard to stomach,just think what the victim feels.

We all have a duty to out the bully in the workplace,do not protect him,do not fear him,he is a coward of the highest order,and as we have stated before,only because he has been allowed to get away with it.

If these and other programmes bring into the public eye the horrors of bullying,then some good may come of them. It will hopefully force those with their heads in the sand to put their heads above the parapit,instead of doing nothing and hopeing it will go away.

Unless those who are in a position to end workplace bullying do so,then they to must stand guilty of bullying by proxy. To do nothing is as bad as bullying itself. Do something,the law has now done something,and nothing moves as slowly as the law. If they recognise that workplace bullying needs dealt with,then surely to god organisations who knowingly harbour workplace bullies,should deal with it or they to must face the concequeces.the personal cost that victims have to pay is to high,far to high,the cost that society at large has to pay is equally unacceptable. We say again there is no place for bullies in the work force.

Employment for spin doctors has blossomed under Labour,as tales of new this and new that have been spoon fed to us. But wait on there is much more to come as the dreaded election approaches. We will not be able to sit on the toilet without a candidate handing us the bog roll with a smile on their face. In fact if you sit there long enough they will wipe your backside for you.

We as an electorate have the unenviable job of seperating the truth from the bull shit,easy enough you may think,but is it. As you read if you can be bothered the leaflets that will clog up your letter box,and listen to the tired old messages from the brain washing party political broadcasts,it will be all sunshine and roses with plenty of jam tomorrow.

Not so.The candidates banging on your door to shake your hand and bombard you with stories of achievment have troden this path before so it will be well rehearsed,and practically lie perfect. You may even see them coming down your street,so you will have the chance to put off the lights and close your curtains,or even better if you have one get your dog to bark,that has two gains. the punter that is putting the leaflet through your letter box will think twice,and the candidate will think twice before they bother you.

Avoid the shops,it is probable that a stall usually a paste table ,will be set up offering you balloons and stickers,which will be thrust into your hands or, on if you have one your babys pushchair. There is in all probability no escape,but you can always try. You can all to easily get caught up in the jamboree,and actually believe what they are trying to sell you,as you will very rarely get a chance to question them on anything pertaining to what is actually going on in your community.

Greater Pilton will no doubt suffer from this plague of vultures desperate to secure your vote,reminding you of past party loyalties and pulling on your good nature with the promise of a lift to the polls or a postal vote as long as you vote for them. Don’t be fooled by this mirage of good will and friendleness,for the morning after you will be forgotton and just another pleb they needed to get back in.

Yes you will be spun around and back again till you are dizzy and heady with promises and good things to come. In fact they might even know your first name,having been told it by the hanger on behind them. The publicity machine will creak into action making sure the candidates second face or their best one is beaming out from the leaflet,and they are smiling just for you,because they are your pal,and nothing is to much for you.

You will find new places to hide as the candiate approaches you to shake your hand and demand your vote with menace,you do not know what to do,run,hide play dead or the simplest way just ask a meaningful question,that will soon get rid of them.

The three now two musketeers Messers Mcginnis and Fitzpatrick practiced in the dark arts of electioneering along side Mr. principles Chisholm will form a formidable front line and a shall not pass mentality. No doubt they will have a mountain of achievments to tell you about,so you won’t have a chance to question them on the real issues,so don’t bother,just get in training so you have enough stamina to get away from them.

So just as a final thought for the moment.For all those who seen trainspotting,you will remember the scene in the toilet. Just as you thought it was safe to go into the lavy,up through the pan pops one of the musketeers thrusting a leaflet into your hand.Just keep your other hand firmly on the flush.one gentle pull and all the shit disappears.