Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Whereas we have the opposite problem of not being ABLE to dispose of assets we’ve had for a decade, well past their end of life, because our organisation won’t allow us to flog them off. I don’t even care if it goes back into the main kitty, but PAYING for someone to take stuff away – and often no-one wants to, including the big IT vendors – galls me no end.

And thus we see the benefits of being the first one caught…

wtf 6 months for a promotion, could been the department head with a few more years commitment
(wanders off to look at the AG’s recruitment page)

Mothy said :

* Annoyed after 6 months without a promotion wtf???? I hear 6 months and am like “is that ALL?” Is there honestly an expectation that you only have to wait 6 months????

Old stats, but to illustrate the point. (1986 – 2001 APSC Graduate Entry trends)

75% of graduates promoted to an APS4 within twelve months. (1034 out of 1371)
54% of graduates in 6 months or less. (751 out of 1371)

Being promoted directly from APS3 to Exec is not unheard of, just highly unlikely (15 out of 2588, median of 2.5 years before it happened); doing it within three months is even less likely (but not impossible, with just the one case in 558 promotions after 3 months).
As most HR areas can tell you, Graduates are special cases, not the norm.
(There are only like, 80 at a time, iirc)

But with Kieran being a 33 year old Asset Management APS3, I doubt he’s a graduate.
By contrast to the rest of the Public Service, both the median APS3s and APS4s in the ACT have 3 years of service. (Pg 71 of 2009 State of the Service statistical bulletin)

Kieran has a powerful sense of entitlement, when really he’s just average.

However I’d be interested to see what falls from of an AG’s shakeout.

OMG, you speak latin?

No, wait, you’re just a geek?

Meanwhile – two things from the article;

* Annoyed after 6 months without a promotion wtf???? I hear 6 months and am like “is that ALL?” Is there honestly an expectation that you only have to wait 6 months????

* Seems he got off lightly for promising to help investigate further issues of same. Can’t wait to see what comes of that.

And we had staff using the Dept’s computers to run their eBay businesses. They then of course used the contract we had with AAE to send their goods all over the country.

while they weren’t stealing the goods to sell they were stealing bandwith, time and cash in the costs of the couriers.

Of course they weren’t sacked or anything – just told to stop doing it!….

JessP said :

Holy Cow! He used the Departments courier contract to deliver the stuff he stole and sold to punters on ebay!

Not sure if this makes him a legend or a bigger idiot.

No, actually it makes him a bigger idiot!!

I have never heard of this happening in any of the Departments I have worked in.

Happened quite a bit in Defence, I recall about 50 or so digital cameras being repurposed to better suit a pubes wallet.

Is it reasonable to assume he also got fired as well as the court imposed “punishment”?

I’d have thought theft warrants instant dismissal, but this is the public service we’re talking about

Never mind that – wait until NBN gets cranked up. Kierans ^6
His problem is he just didn’t ‘think big’ enough.
When the larceny is in the billions it’s called nation building.

JessP said :

Holy Cow! He used the Departments courier contract to deliver the stuff he stole and sold to punters on ebay!

Not sure if this makes him a legend or a bigger idiot.

No, actually it makes him a bigger idiot!!

I have never heard of this happening in any of the Departments I have worked in.

Well, I have heard of a guy using his department servers to run a pr0n sight staring his wife… But he got caught to. I have always witnessed a little greyness or bending of rules, but never seen anything that wouldn’t pass the “would you admit to it” test.