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Comment on Canadians OK with ReformCons fighting their deficit on the back of the PS by Ken

Ken — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:17:20 +0000

If you don’t like having the target on your back, then quit. Go work in the private sector where you probably won’t get nearly the same benefits, or job security. Positions may be cut, but when was the last time the government actively laid people off, like they do in the private sector?

Comment on Canadians OK with ReformCons fighting their deficit on the back of the PS by trashee

trashee — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:59:27 +0000

Absolutely – positions DO get cut. And this is especially true in the Fed PS where we are losing up to 40% of our staff due to retirements. The CD Howe folks proposed that only 1 of 5 of these positions be backfilled… which is simply unworkable!
I am a Manager who is directly or indirectly responsible for about 14 folks (it does fluctuate a little), and I am told that due to cuts, I can’t afford to fill positions that are vacated due to promotions or retirements. So either someone else does double duty or the project suffers. This is not a good thing for either my staff or the quality of our product.
The point being that eventually, something has to give, right?

Comment on Canadians OK with ReformCons fighting their deficit on the back of the PS by ck

ck — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:49:13 +0000

I’m a provincial bureaucrat for the health and social services sector. I can tell you first hand that positions do get cut in the sense that when someone either retires or leaves, more often than not, the position is never to be refilled, but rather, merged with another position. This is common the administrative support, which is what I do.

When the receptionist at our head office retired, it merged with my position. So now, I do my previous job at the front desk, with a few other tasks to add. No, I’m not burning out from over work. However, my position is needed for one: the front desk and swithboard need to be covered. Get rid of ‘bureaucrats’, who would answer and reroute the calls? A social worker, childcare worker? The cook at a group home or detention unit? Same for typing documents: who would do that?

I remembered some idiot awhile back at Grope & FAil comment boards saying the feds should lay off NO LESS than 12000 civil servants, to which i asked him, where would your services come from if they’re not around? As well as they never thought that the private sector isn’t hiring any of the thousands of out of work Canadians, want to add a minimum of 12000 more?

Comment on Canadians OK with ReformCons fighting their deficit on the back of the PS by trashee

trashee — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:56:17 +0000

There is always an assumption that there is “fat” to be trimmed so the spending cuts are simply forcing departments to find “efficiencies”.
But you can only go to that pond so much before the fish start to die.
We have been hit with strategic reviews, blue ribbon panels and “efficiency” cuts so much over the past few years that the fat has been stripped and thrown on the BBQ!

Comment on Canadians OK with ReformCons fighting their deficit on the back of the PS by dave1949

dave1949 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:47:28 +0000

The part of this I find fascinating is that there is never an end to pols who will say they’ll cut gov’t spending but not curtail services, and there seems to never be an end to idiots who will believe this when they are offered that particular fantasy world.

I on the other hand can think all the way back to Mike Harris and I seem to remember this didn’t work out so well last time around either.

Comment on As I get older, there are these things I am becoming really bitchy about… by trashee

trashee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +0000

XUP – if you were any more mellow, they’d name a type of tea after you! Bonnes vacances!
Squid-dude – you are scaring me.

Comment on As I get older, there are these things I am becoming really bitchy about… by XUP

XUP — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:18:13 +0000

Gee, what a grouch! I find I’m actually getting a lot more “whatever” as I get older. I used to be very black and white in my opinions and impatient and pissed off about stuff. As the years go by I just don’t care very much any more. I know that’s hard to believe since I’m pretty impatient and pissed off about stuff all the time, but believe me, I’ve mellowed.

Comment on As I get older, there are these things I am becoming really bitchy about… by Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:48:57 +0000

secretly, as a younger lad, I campaigned for the NDP candidate. And in Ontario, no less, not out in whackoland (BC). I’ve never liked the Libs though. I’ve always found them stereotypically “politicians” in an icky sort of way that the Conservatives seldom are. I think it’s how they try to cover it up while the Cons are more in-your-face with their graft.

Comment on As I get older, there are these things I am becoming really bitchy about… by Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:45:18 +0000

I once got so fed up with an old lady paying for $22-ish worth of groceries at the local grocer that I told the cashier to just add her bill to mine and asked the lady to just go.

I had to. I was going to go in-fucking-sane watching her count out $22 in small change. Peopel around me said how nice I was. I had to explain “no, I’m being an ass but it was the right thing to do.”

Give or take, I can’t say I disagree or find fault with anything here I feel essentially the same way.

Comment on Boy – I DO like Alberta and all that, but…. by Isn’t it ironic? | Trashy's World

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