Life after the Public Sector

justsomeaussie said :

For all its graduate programs and cheap education programs the Public Service still hasn’t woken up to the fact that redundancy programs end up being a brain drain on their department. Practically they are so afraid of the realities of firing someone it’s easier to let the best go through VR and end up managing the bottom of the barrel.

I guess when it’s the blind leading the blind should anyone expect any different?

Why do you reckon the brains are leaving but the useless people remain?

justsomeaussie said :

For all its graduate programs and cheap education programs the Public Service still hasn’t woken up to the fact that redundancy programs end up being a brain drain on their department. Practically they are so afraid of the realities of firing someone it’s easier to let the best go through VR and end up managing the bottom of the barrel.

I guess when it’s the blind leading the blind should anyone expect any different?

Some versions of that in the private sector too. The various side effects go unnoticed. Until it’s too late, then it’s noticed. At which point, all efforts are made to make it appear it’s been noted and addressed, but it has, in fact, continued to go unnoticed, mostly covered with fancy doublespeak.

Or outsourced, which is often enough all the worse. As long as it’s all ok on paper for a while, that’s all anyone really buys and sells, right? Well, for a while.

Ok so I’m a bit cynical on this eve, fine… um…. Startups. Let me try again.

Startups, well, if they can pull it off, all power to them. Do it, Canberra needs that kind of thing, hope some good comes of it. PS please think twice before outsourcing too much too fast and then you’ll only end up with MORE local unemployed making MORE startups competing with your startup!…
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For all its graduate programs and cheap education programs the Public Service still hasn’t woken up to the fact that redundancy programs end up being a brain drain on their department. Practically they are so afraid of the realities of firing someone it’s easier to let the best go through VR and end up managing the bottom of the barrel.

I guess when it’s the blind leading the blind should anyone expect any different?