Reprieved ...?

After year of fucking about, Bellend and Shithead Nicholls' decision finally came into contact with democracy. And, it seems, came off second best.

After £30k spent on Cuntdip and 2 sub-committee's off the agenda, the decision as referred to the College's Committee. We were, ironically, doing a graduation on the same day as the committee met. We were wondering whether this would be the last one and weren't reassurred when Tim Milner legged it. Carl didn't know anything either.

Towards the end of the day Prealector for Wolfson came over to talk to Phil. He said he'd been told by the master that there'd been a long meeting (went on till 13.00) and that the decision could be summed up as 'No Change'!

The happiness that these words engendered was huge. Means that Mick & Phil still have a job (and Natalie still has a job to returnn to after the secondment). Months of stress and worry appears to be over at last. It's not official yet but we doubt anything will be put in writing (nothing about closing was). On the downide it does mean that we'll have to do GA etc after all LOL.

The decision (if confirmed/not denied) does raise a few things though:

• It's a serious loss of face for Martin Bellend as he desn't want PandIS & tried to get it closed down. Now he's going to face up to the fact that he'slost that and that we are staying.
• It's probably a blow for Knobhed Nicholls hopes of a cash bung from E&R.
• With the Cockcroft building due for closure in the summer, he (or more likely Sue) will have to figure out where we're going to move to (though might not be a rush as security's new building isn't ready yet).
• There'll be a political fight over accomodation over room for PandIS/other's losing space. Thre's also the issue of where stock and associated stuff will be stored.
• It's diminished Steve R's authority as he doesn't seem to have gone out of his way to help protect his staff (which hasn't gone unnoticed).
• Neville wont be happy. Not only is he not going to get redundancy, he may have to work full-time now (as Nat off doing secondment). He may now want to do this (understatement) and he may have to decide when to retire (can go to 67 but he doesn't want to go to 65).

Still, it's a weight of a lot of people's shoulders and now we can make some plans for the future (eg, dry processor to replace sickly Noritsu, new laminator unit etc)

Update AM 20/02/17: Seems the wazzock from Wolfson got the wrong end of the stick.

What seems to have been promised (by the university) was that the college’s would see no change following privatisation (ie not the same thing at all).

Phil is going to try and find out what the actual decision actually was ...