h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm not one for making other people's arguments for them, but this is quite good.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TZMSocialEvolution#p/f/0/qOP2V_np2c0

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*Lovely* website, that.

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Yep, and it's pure overhead, so those organisations keep it to the necessary minimum and make sure its practitioners don't get too comfortable. Admin is not there for job creation, even if that's what the last government contrived.

Be that as it may, the biggest problem now might be the politicisation of underachievers. If Cameron's not careful, he'll create a situation whereby everyone who's a waste of space will vote Labour, and we'll all be in big trouble if that adds up to a future electoral majority.

Pissing off large numbers of people isn't usually helpful if you hope to win elections, no.

Particularly if that large number of people happen to be eligible for public sector pensions:-
http://www.public-sector-pensions-commission.org.uk/wp-content/themes/pspc/images/Public-Sector-Pensions-Commission-Report.pdf

Oh look, a private sector advocacy group attacked the public sector, what a surprise

Next on the news, dog bites man.

Just a point for all those slandering how expensive and wasteful public sector admin is: a few years back there was a study done in the States comparing private medical insurers and Medicare/Medicaid, the public insurer.

It was found that private companies spent on average around 7% on admin costs. The public sector was about 2% - the public sector was three times as efficient as the private sector.

So let's lose this nonsense about how public sector admin is a waste of money. Public sector admin workers are working in far more complex environments, with complicated regulations and constraints and they do it more efficiently than private sector workers.

I'm all for making the system less complicated, but that's not the job of the admin girl who simply has to do as she is told.

I can't see that website - the work filter has blocked access to it on grounds of racism/ hatred.

Sorry Beatrice you must have your computer set on a high level of protection.
Tax paying pensioners, other than those on a public sector pension, may well be upset by the Pensions Commission report, the other is concerned with the overworked civil servant. Try putting 'Parkinson's Law in Google, you will get the idea.

Beatrice you could get at the report via :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2010/07/the_publicsector_pension_gap.html

The report's OK, it's the "heretical" website that's blocked.

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because all the boys are managers?

Anybody here get this email?

"Dear Colleague
First of all we want to thank you. Whether your job is nursing in a hospital, working in a government department, teaching our children or one of the other key roles in the public sector, you keep our country running. People who work in the public sector don’t get enough credit for what they do, so thank you.
As well as our thanks, we want to give you more trust and more responsibility. For years you’ve been undermined by targets and rules set from on high. Bit by bit we’re going to end that culture. We’ll set you free to use your professionalism, commitment and good ideas to make life better for everyone.
But let us be clear. The biggest challenge our country faces is dealing with our huge debts – and that means we have to reduce public spending. You will have heard in this week’s Budget that we have had to take difficult decisions on public sector salaries for the next two years, while taking steps to protect those on lower salaries. Like many private sector organisations, we have chosen to control salaries rather than see higher job losses. The more we can find savings, the more flexibility we will have to avoid job losses and wage cuts.
We want you to help us find those savings, so we can cut public spending in a way that is fair and responsible. You work on the frontline of public services. You know where things are working well, where the waste is, and where we can re-think things so that we get better services for less money.
So this is why we’re writing to you today. We’re asking you to go to this website – Spending Challenge - and tell us your ideas about getting more for less. Don’t hold back. Be innovative, be radical, challenge the way things are done. Every serious idea will be considered: by government departments, by the Treasury, by our teams in Number 10 and the Cabinet Office – and passed to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to make sure we don’t miss anything.
So please, play your part. Let us know your ideas. We’re all in this together – and we’ll get through this together to better days ahead.
Yours sincerely
RT HON "

My husband did. He's already working on his list of suggestions, starting with "stop changing the education syllabus".

I didn't. So presumably I don't work in the public sector after all. I wonder who all those people are that I deal with every day? I though they were, erm, members of the public.

Mol

Mol - It may well be that you will be unaffected by the chop.

I didn't get that email but if someone would care to give me the return email address, I have a few suggestions.

So if we didn't get the email. does that mean I'm not public sector?

More than likely the email was only sent to higher grade workers.

Words can hit like a fist AB I'll never love again

Or maybe they've realised that if they email Bradford schools they'll get a single suggestion from everyone.

Sorry Whoisit but the temptation is too great
I suppose they all would want to get rid of careers advisors pushing students into fruitless University courses leaving them them with a £10000+ debt and few job prospects. Of course the graduates can always put 2/3 years swanning around on their CV's.
Shift work and short term contracts would open things up a bit.