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Gerri-Linn's avatar

T.W.A.T.'s Tuesday, Wednesday &Thursday's. That's how the P.S. are labeled in the UK.

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Toxi's avatar

🎯😆😆😆

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Vivian's avatar

To be fair, aren't contractors hired to do the "work" because they can't find anyone with skills amongst the civil servants? Or hire a civil servant to also be a contractor? The system is broken, but I didn't realize how much until Covid and ArriveCan.

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Claudette Leece's avatar

Exactly but hey good news, if ads called for workers who knew what anal sex was, or maybe how to add with a calculator, good news there must be a civil servant out there

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Innate Capable's avatar

To find out how productive they are, try giving them a call with a problem. More time is spent warning the caller to keep their behavior cordial than on their actual problem. 70% of the time the employee is defensive and difficult right out of the gate and often down right clueless. Weird that with 42% increase of positions wait times have increased as well. Even weirder is the emphasis put to the caller that the call may drop or be of low quality.

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Claudette Leece's avatar

They do that because they know they have no more clue how to help you than your cat does. From the time they crawl in at a cozy 9 am, they are planning their coffee breaks and lunch hours. Then they watch the clock for quitting time. If civil servants built houses , everyone would be in tents

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Toxi's avatar

Not to mention how many times in my case here in the armpit of Canada, it's a person who barely speaks either of our official languages and is next to impossible to understand.

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WillB's avatar

We shall be able to judge them by their fruits, as first commenter has indicated. And these areas the fruits of...

Diviseveness,

Exclusion and

Inequity

The rotten fruit of the tree that has fallen off the branches and is fermenting on the ground for the chimps and elephants in the room to get intoxicated on. And intoxicated they are.

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Eric Marney's avatar

I was thinking just the other day about the zoom calls we used to have Sheldon...was it a couple years ago already? Great group of like minds shooting the shit with a cocktail in hand.

Kinda miss BSing over a couple hours every so often

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