mockery

Revelations from a series of FoI requests are likely to anger many public sector workers. Council chiefs, it has been revealed, are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds employing consultants to ridicule the staff that work under them.

The 'Mock Inspectors', as they are referred to in private emails that are fired between senior level managers, are invited in to the offices to interview those targeted for derision. The consultation is covertly recorded then the 'best bits' are edited together and uploaded to an invitation only, password protected, server.

Employees who have the role of completing safety checklists often bear the brunt of particularly savage attacks in the email exchanges. Allusions to their sexual habits are common including many lewd references to 'putting the cross in the wrong box'.

We spoke to one of the mock inspectors, from the firm Crap ConsoLutions, who said he 'frequently' interviewed front-line employees that were 'not working' and could be visibly 'horrific'. "There was no 'potential' among any of the secretaries" he said. "They were all total mingers and two of them had possibly the worst speech impediments I've ever encountered. You can't say fairer than that. Well, they certainly couldn't."