Friday, June 02, 2006

The war, not the battle

So there has been an resounding loss in the work wear battle. It turns out that there is a line in everyone's contract stating that all corporate policies must be adhered to. But there is no mention of what procedure they have to go through before they can change said policies. To be honest though, I really lost the will to fight on after reading the bit in my contract.

Rest assured, that even though the battle of work wear has been lost, the war isn't finished yet... Senior management have gone and changed my job specification! Without warning and without consultation... Or even worse: without a pay rise! Given the fact that they have changed my workload (on paper) by 60%, one would think that I would be in line for some sort of wage increase...?

Having done some serious leg work into the changes that have been made, I have made an intriguing discovery: the new jobs being added, were actually my boss' old jobs. There are many things that can be said for public sector workers (most of which aren't very nice), but the two that really stand out for me are:
  1. If you are tasked with doing something and you don't want to do. Don't. Just sit on it and pretend to work on it until everyone forgets that it needed to be done. I see it all the time. My boss is an expert at it.
  2. If point one doesn't work, slope your shoulders so far that you are no longer responsible for the failure in doing said job, and pass it off on your subordinates.
Which brings me to another point in this rant: the utter lack or accountability in public sector workers. Nobody is willing to stand up and take responsibility for anything that happens (unless its a good thing and they will get praise for it. Then EVERYONE stands up. My boss does this to me all the time. I do the work, he puts his name at the bottom. But I digress) so the end result is that anything risky or daring that would actually make a big difference in the business.... just doesn't ever happen.

If you ever wondered why it takes the government 33 weeks to process an unemployment claim... wonder no more.

Where was I? oh yes. Changing my job spec. The end result of it all is that it is only having the effect of encouraging me to find a new job.............

posted by Wally @ 9:23 am