Originally Posted by
Brian Hjelm
> > . This was sent to me, about September-October 2007, by a friend who still laboured then in the halls of Canberra, but had enough & took early retirement in July 2008.
> >
> > YOU KNOW YOU HAVE WORKED IN JOHN
> > HOWARD'S PUBLIC SERVICE WHEN....
> >
> > you have done the same job at the same desk in
> > the same building for eleven years and the Department
> has had four different names
> >
> > the sign on the front doors is attached with
> > Velcro
> >
> > your CV is on a CD in your briefcase
> >
> > you get excited about a 1.7% pay rise
> >
> > you learn about your redundancy on the ABC News
> >
> > your greatest inconvenience from a system crash
> > is losing your best jokes
> >
> > your supervisor does not have the ability to do
> > your job
> >
> > contractors and temps. and "higher duties" staff
> > outnumber permanent & substantive staff and are
> more likely to achieve long service leave
> >
> > you see a good looking smart person and know it
> > is a visitor
> >
> > interviewees, without knowledge or experience of
> > the job, terminate the interview when told the
> > starting salary
> >
> > you go to and from work in the dark, even in
> > summer
> >
> > you know exactly how many days you have left to
> > retirement
> >
> > you are so fed up with the job, you would love to
> > get a redundancy package, but packages seem
> > restricted to management's pets, relatives, concubines,
> > notorious brown-nosers, and person's who are so
> > incompetent even your management noticed
> >
> > the due date on the assignment you just got is
> > yesterday
> >
> > there are almost no white male breadwinners left
> > in your workplace, the staff now seeming to compose
> > "quota minorities" and middle-aged married
> > women working for luxuries like second & third
> investment properties, beach houses,overseas trips, and
> > expensive motor-cars
> >
> > you apply for a vacancy with promotion, and find
> > the selection committees always are composed of a
> > third world immigrant, a lesbian, a handicapped
> > person, & a rabid feminist social worker, none of
> > whom know anything about the job in question
> >
> > work experience, "workers for the dole", & youth
> > trainees get brand new state of the art laptops
> > while operational staff have time for a crossword whilst
> > their aeons old terminals boot up
> >
> > there is no money in the budget for sufficient
> > operational staff needed to meet service requirements &
> > legislative responsibilities, but a seemingly
> > unlimited amount for outside "consultants" to
> advise senior management on "strategy" and "policy"
> >
> > every week another collection envelope come
> > around for someone who is leaving, and you didn't even
> know they had started
> >
> > you start to wonder who will be left when your
> > envelope goes around
> >
> > holidays are something you roll over for another
> > year
> >
> > your supervisors were promoted because of their
> > incompetence, to limit the damage they were doing
> > when they were operational staff
>
> Competent, efficient, knowledgeable, and highly
> experienced staff are denied promotion year after
> year, while early twenties newbys with irrelevant
> degrees in useless studies (bachelor of
> unemployment) from second & third rate universities
> are "fast tracked" because they have "tertiary
> qualifications".
>
> There is not one person at management level in
> your department who is capable of getting or keeping
> a job at similar level in the private sector.
> >
> >
> > He says it is in wide circulation in the
> APS down in Canberra, and many disgruntled & cynical people
> think it rather closer to the truth than to humour.
