Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:20 pm
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@ KANGA Whilst all ciuvil serpent and Whitehall edifices are supposed to produce different results, their structure and organisation appears to follow the same fundamentals.
Few, if any, have any true answerability (that falls to the sacrificial Pollie who may well fall off the gravy train at the next election, anyway)
there is a rigid heirarchy and pecking order for pay, perks and rank....keep your nose clean, you've a job for life , early retirement and a pension the private sector envy.
daughter worked for a Consultancy and was seconded to Defence procurement....the money we, the taxpayers, were paying , was obscene.
BUT...she was producing 3 or 4 times more work than the direct employees, and hers was good and valid (theirs was too little , too late and not fit for purpose.) - the taxpayer actually got better value per £ spent! She came across people who could not use their internal computer system to, for instance, request a new printer-cartridge....they had only been there for about 8 years......daughter taught them how,- she'd had a fortnight to learn that!
Some of it is firmly in the "pay peanuts, get monkeys" category, but a lot of Public employees are below par for private industry and only interested in perpetuating their cushy number to pension.
Of necessity, this is a sweeping generalisation.. just ask yourself how this mind-boggling convoluted self-contradicting pseudo legalese Carp ever gets to bacome law....written by fools. checked by fools, passed by fools...don't rock the boat. but don't worry, you will NEVER be held personally responsible, unless you are a doctor (medics at the sharp end are one of the rare exceptions) and kill somebody.
blimey! even Shipman was able to top himself before being struck off and thus his ghastly wife gets his pension !
rant off....I think I've made my point.
Few, if any, have any true answerability (that falls to the sacrificial Pollie who may well fall off the gravy train at the next election, anyway)
there is a rigid heirarchy and pecking order for pay, perks and rank....keep your nose clean, you've a job for life , early retirement and a pension the private sector envy.
daughter worked for a Consultancy and was seconded to Defence procurement....the money we, the taxpayers, were paying , was obscene.
BUT...she was producing 3 or 4 times more work than the direct employees, and hers was good and valid (theirs was too little , too late and not fit for purpose.) - the taxpayer actually got better value per £ spent! She came across people who could not use their internal computer system to, for instance, request a new printer-cartridge....they had only been there for about 8 years......daughter taught them how,- she'd had a fortnight to learn that!
Some of it is firmly in the "pay peanuts, get monkeys" category, but a lot of Public employees are below par for private industry and only interested in perpetuating their cushy number to pension.
Of necessity, this is a sweeping generalisation.. just ask yourself how this mind-boggling convoluted self-contradicting pseudo legalese Carp ever gets to bacome law....written by fools. checked by fools, passed by fools...don't rock the boat. but don't worry, you will NEVER be held personally responsible, unless you are a doctor (medics at the sharp end are one of the rare exceptions) and kill somebody.
blimey! even Shipman was able to top himself before being struck off and thus his ghastly wife gets his pension !
rant off....I think I've made my point.