How Cancelling Leave is a Bonus

And *not* cost $100+ per hour.

Actually, I consider the laziest personnel I have ever encountered to be contractors.

Dimwits mooching off the government teat when a perfectly good public servant could do the same job, and be more reliable…

Salespeople poor?!?!? Most salespeople I know pull down several hundred thousand a year.

And many of the senior public servants I know are hardworking and talented – it’s their labor-catchphrase underlings who represent most of the lazy, useless public servants I’ve met across many federal government departments (and no, it’s NOT a minority).

I’m comfortable with Stanhope’s wage.

Oh, you mean for him? I thought you meant me. Boom, boom!

Seriously, though, before you criticise Stanhope you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then, you’re a mile away and you’ve got his shoes.

I am on fire.

Any salepeople are always free to apply for jobs as PAs if they want to. Now is a good time to apply to the PS, as there are lots of jobs going. (Get in quick in case the new govt starts making some cuts).

Headline, 28 December 2006:
Scruge Howard Cancels Christmas

Headline, 28 December 2007:
Rudd gives Canberra businesses ‘unexpected bonus’

…think about it, you know it’s true.

Beyond Thought.

I actually like that sort of biase (I’m obviously not alone in this).

In 2006 Howard had not just swept into power – he was just being a sad bastard.

In 2007 Rudd does have to actually turn a lot of things around.

Go Canberra!

Senior public servants may be unable to find anywhere open to spend their dollars though – it’s a ghost town out there!

Glad I’m not the only one who hates laptops 🙂

I was very much ‘lower class’, for want of a better term a few years back. I got by on around $20K a year.

I certainly don’t consider myself better than anyone else because I now work for the government though. Sheesh, what sort of arsehole considers themselves better than others in the first place?

Astro,

Are you comfortable with Jon Stanhope’s wage? Are you comfortable that for that amount of money, the work that he does. and keep in mind, when you think about Stanhope’s work load, think about how many advisors he has making all the decisions for him. He get’s paid to front up to the media and call himself a chief minister.

And while we are on payments, why should, lets say a salesperson get paid far less than a PA or someone that sits behind a desk all day (that doesn’t require years of degrees)?

The problem is, some PS are arrogant, they class themselves as middle or high class, and don’t give a second to think about those poor hard working salespersons who struggle to put food on the table and try to give their kids the best they can whilst living in an apartment block with a heap of junkies.

“Come on, lets be honest. A big percentage of public servants are overpaid for the amount of work they do.”

right, vandam, where is the evidence? what sort of ‘percentage’ are you talking here – 10%; 30%? Or do you imply even more? on what basis do you make such ludicrous claims? what do you know of a great percentage of PSs and their work load?

or is this just throw-back myth rehash? i think the latter. and ferret is on the money – while there are some quite excellent EAs, most PAs are on power trips.

silly story, though, started the thread.

PA’s the hard workers? I’ve never heard anything so off the mark… PA’s are the one place where there are too many ‘should be retired’ old cows on power trips

‘Don’t you know who I am? I work for Chief Bigwig and that makes me important’

No lady, and I don’t care… Half of them are excellent, and the other half should be euthanised and not voluntarily

ant,

Come on, lets be honest. A big percentage of public servants are overpaid for the amount of work they do. The hardest workers of the PS are the PA’s. They do all the crappy jobs that the executive don’t want to do.

Though you are correct in saying there are some out there that bust their ass. Problem is like most businesses, they are far and few between.

We were lucky – a scheduled 3 day outage to implement a new SAN (due to the unbelievable growth in storage requirements…) could not be moved so everyone got the break due to no network availability!

Thus, no email, no Blackberry, and limited access to the shared folders.

Thanks Volante, from everyone affected 😉

Agreed ant. Too bad if they’d already paid for trips away, eh?

Why do people assume that the senior people in the APS don’t work? I assure you, most of them work their arses off. Getting them to take holidays is like pulling teeth. Getting them to ditch their phones and blackberries is impossible.

I honestly don’t understand why people think they sit in banana chairs all day? What is the basis for this belief? It’s really asinine. Of all the SES I know, there’s one AS who is a complete joke and waste of space. The rest are talented, hard working people who feel guilty if they aren’t at their desk 24/7.

Sounds good to me. I’m not a public servant 😉

The “story” is just reporting the words of one Chris Peters from the ACT Chamber of Commerce.

Headline, 28 December 2006:
Scruge Howard Cancels Christmas

Headline, 28 December 2007:
Rudd gives Canberra businesses ‘unexpected bonus’

…think about it, you know it’s true.

Perhaps the story implies that SES types don’t do much work anyway, and spend most of their time in shops & restaurants?

About time they did some f*cking work, welcome to the real world pubes.

i think it’s just like the article says – people on leave over xmas and nye tend to leave canberra for the coast or head interstate to see family and friends, so if their leave is cancelled they are in town therefore more likely to spend their cash here

Well, it will be a ‘bonus’ for restaurants. But where is the “Rudd steals family holidays” story?