Running round for mind numbing paperwork - is it for paperwork's sake?

Thank you for your suggestion. I am actually excellently organised. The box above ran out before I could finish typing. I was unable to add that this all had to be produced in a foreign language and the explanation for the necessity of it all was that if one day in the future my son is a football superstar earning mega bucks, the local council will receive a large sum from the magnates of football, for the privilege of having trained him when he was young.

That's if said local council haven't lost the paperwork by then which I may add is not computerised.

Hi Rob, well if the child had played for another team then they would be entitled to the money when the child becomes a superstar football player. The TB thing is focused at the immigrant Albanian population but they can't just make them be tested, they have to all be tested. This is pathetically ironic as this only applies to football outside school but there are no such tests for within school so in theory they could all be exposed to TB there. (then pass it on to the football team). I agree that the paperwork is is a lot for paperworks sake, thanks for responding.

i see now, i didn't know there would be money involved so that's understandable and so is the TB issue. still, a lot of running around and a lot of paperwork.

i hope he does well, football is by far my favourite sport and i love to see young children taking an interest and doing well.

Hi Rob, well I think he's doing well but I know NOTHING about football. All I know is that the new Coach is crazy and a scheduled practice after school for one and a half hours can last longer than three, and the number of evenings is increasing. Coach is so keen he's putting the children off with the long hours now involved.

i hope he doesn't put them off altogether. some adults expect too much from kids on a football field, they should be allowed to just enjoy it until they're about 14 then get serious.

Hi Rob, well I expect the numbers will drop once the dark nights come in, my son doesn't finish school till 4pm, optional afternoons, then football starts at 4.30 fifteen minutes away, and if he is expecting them to practice till 7.30 then get home again for a meal on dark nights it's going to get too much.

that's true. i think a lot of parents will be discouraged to let their kids play when it's dark.

hi Click, you've probably hit the nail on the head about providing a job for someone. I'm lucky in that the work I do here is not time consuming so does allow me the necessary time to sort this kind of looniness out, but it hard for the ones who are tied to long hours at their jobs. This is really the fathers I speak of as not many of the women drive so the men end up having to drive round frantically from office to office.

No paperwork is made easy here at all, even if there is a wrong reading on the electric meter and there is a horrendously silly bill you can't just phone up and give the correct reading, you must drive an hour to town to give them the correct reading in person so that they can see you sign it. But they won't let you pay it there and then, they insist on sending out a new bill. Then by the time it arrives it is past the pay by date which means you aren't allowed to pay it locally in the post office but have to drive back to town to pay it at the electric company. That's a really good ploy to make us pay the over inflated bills and make themselves more money. I could go on, and on, and on. It does get frustrating some times.