“Four days at work because they need to rest on the fifth? Expletive public sector workers. Get in the real world.”

There’s little that gets people worked up than perceived injustice and unfairness.

Pub, dinner table and gym conversations across the land have been raging and cursing about the staff at South Cambridgeshire district council working a four-day week for five days’ pay.

Its harsh public ticking off and ‘need to improve’ notice this week from local government minister Steve Reed for dropping standards has opened a hornets’ nest.

The nation choked on its supper listening to a council worker explain on BBC Radio 4’s PM on Tuesday how he needed to rest on a Friday to be refreshed and raring to go back at the council offices on Monday.

He’d have garnered more respect if he’d said he spent his extra day volunteering, or even going to the gym, gardening, or yoga. But no, he rested to be ready for Monday.

While he and his nearly 450 colleagues were lounging and recharging, one of its fundamental services - housing -deteriorated, with repairs not happening for some of the more vulnerable residents, according to Mr Reed.

What planet of deluded self-awareness are these decisionmakers living on? Its staff are paid from the public purse.

Council workers get bad press, sometimes........

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