Why can the council Never get your pay right??

Is it a little too much to ask, that the council actually pay you correctly? I mean what exactly is the story with this? I have never met anyone who has not had trouble when being paid by the council!

You know how it is! You've been studying for the last year, so you have existed on feck all cash and then you start your new job. The first really important question you ask is...... When do we get paid? As soon as you know when you are getting paid, you get out the diary and in BIG RED LETTERS you write YIPPEE PAY DAY!!!!!!

So everyday, you mark the day off the calender bringing you closer to that day when you will actually have money, dreaming of all the things you can buy when you get it.

The day finally arrives, you excitedly run to the computer and switch it on. You wait about a 3o min (if it's mean and your computer is so overloaded it takes forever to boot) and log on to Internet banking to see how much you got!

SCORE!!! Their is money in my account, but hey wait just a sec something looks decidedly wrong! GOD DAMN IT, half my money is missing!!

So I rang the pay department and spoke to some idiot in the council and asked him to check what had happened, he comes back and not only tells me that everything is correct, but he actually has the affront to say 'Oh, you know the tax free allowance has gone up, so you should be better off this month'.

Like what the f**k???????? Hanging up completely depressed I stupidly took his word for it and rang a fellow newbie to commiserate. Talking to her I realised the idiot was wrong and everything was not OK on my account.

So instead of ringing the council again I rang the tax office directly, to check what was happening on their side and surprise surprise - the idiots hadn't processed my P45 (declaration of income that you get from previous employer and give to new employer) so I was still on emergency tax!

What is the point of handing in a P45, which is supposed to prevent you from being emergency taxed, when you end up being emergency taxed already????

I dunno. Are all councils useless all over the world or is their some really scary Stepford wives imitation of a council office out there????