Comfortably numb......
There's no war there no you know, the Germans have left!
Jun 5th 2012, 11:11 am
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Jun 5th 2012, 11:17 am
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Jun 5th 2012, 11:22 am
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Jun 5th 2012, 11:28 am
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Jun 27th 2012, 7:05 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opin...625-20x4c.html
Double standards and bad manners
Queensland's public sector has been stunned by the level of vitriol being unleashed and many believe, being driven by the government. Public servants are faceless to the community. It’s not until nurses, teachers, teacher aides, parole officers, firefighters and child safety officers become involved that there is an understanding that these are real people and real jobs. They are tired of learning about their future, or their shortcomings, in the morning media.
More job cuts are expected to come. These are not temporary positions. These are permanent jobs, 25 per cent of which must be slashed from corporate office staff. It was being implemented when the Premier wrote his, "Hand on my heart, I am doing everything to protect your jobs" message. In the smaller agencies it will mean a loss of between 350 to 400 positions. In the larger agencies, the casualty list will be much higher.
No one in the public sector is surprised by political hypocrisy. Many have seen it from all sides. But if you are running a shock and awe strategy you should make sure your stated public position cannot be contradicted by your private directions. And if you want the community and your workforce to believe you are slashing job numbers due to the belt-tightening rhetoric, then get your symbolism right.
Don’t let your Science Minister and several staffers take a six-day, $113,000 trip to an international convention in the US during the period when you are telling the world that the financial sky is falling.
Don’t whinge about the state of your office furniture.
Don’t give backbenchers an $8270 annual pay bump if appointed to a committee (about $24,000 on top of your backbench salary over three years) with another "significant rise” agreed by the Federal Remuneration Committee under consideration for later this year, and then tell your work force that they are only worth 2.2 percent (with no more incremental increases) and be grateful please for the good of Queensland.
Don’t announce a master plan to house the Premier and senior ministers in swanky new buildings and still expect your workforce to accept “we all have to do it tough for the good of Queensland” line.
And what is to happen to those of us unlucky enough to be sitting in the wrong seats at the moment?
“Surplus staff” will be placed on a central register and case managed for up to six months. Staff will be offered two placements – assuming they can match your skills with available vacancies - after that there is retrenchment.
And before anyone says its time that Queensland's public service was slashed, just bear in mind that some areas now do not have enough staff left to undertake our core business. God help the State if we get another major flood.
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Looks like its the dole queue for me pretty soon
Double standards and bad manners
Queensland's public sector has been stunned by the level of vitriol being unleashed and many believe, being driven by the government. Public servants are faceless to the community. It’s not until nurses, teachers, teacher aides, parole officers, firefighters and child safety officers become involved that there is an understanding that these are real people and real jobs. They are tired of learning about their future, or their shortcomings, in the morning media.
More job cuts are expected to come. These are not temporary positions. These are permanent jobs, 25 per cent of which must be slashed from corporate office staff. It was being implemented when the Premier wrote his, "Hand on my heart, I am doing everything to protect your jobs" message. In the smaller agencies it will mean a loss of between 350 to 400 positions. In the larger agencies, the casualty list will be much higher.
No one in the public sector is surprised by political hypocrisy. Many have seen it from all sides. But if you are running a shock and awe strategy you should make sure your stated public position cannot be contradicted by your private directions. And if you want the community and your workforce to believe you are slashing job numbers due to the belt-tightening rhetoric, then get your symbolism right.
Don’t let your Science Minister and several staffers take a six-day, $113,000 trip to an international convention in the US during the period when you are telling the world that the financial sky is falling.
Don’t whinge about the state of your office furniture.
Don’t give backbenchers an $8270 annual pay bump if appointed to a committee (about $24,000 on top of your backbench salary over three years) with another "significant rise” agreed by the Federal Remuneration Committee under consideration for later this year, and then tell your work force that they are only worth 2.2 percent (with no more incremental increases) and be grateful please for the good of Queensland.
Don’t announce a master plan to house the Premier and senior ministers in swanky new buildings and still expect your workforce to accept “we all have to do it tough for the good of Queensland” line.
And what is to happen to those of us unlucky enough to be sitting in the wrong seats at the moment?
“Surplus staff” will be placed on a central register and case managed for up to six months. Staff will be offered two placements – assuming they can match your skills with available vacancies - after that there is retrenchment.
And before anyone says its time that Queensland's public service was slashed, just bear in mind that some areas now do not have enough staff left to undertake our core business. God help the State if we get another major flood.
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Looks like its the dole queue for me pretty soon
Jun 27th 2012, 7:14 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opin...625-20x4c.html
Double standards and bad manners
Queensland's public sector has been stunned by the level of vitriol being unleashed and many believe, being driven by the government. Public servants are faceless to the community. It’s not until nurses, teachers, teacher aides, parole officers, firefighters and child safety officers become involved that there is an understanding that these are real people and real jobs. They are tired of learning about their future, or their shortcomings, in the morning media.
More job cuts are expected to come. These are not temporary positions. These are permanent jobs, 25 per cent of which must be slashed from corporate office staff. It was being implemented when the Premier wrote his, "Hand on my heart, I am doing everything to protect your jobs" message. In the smaller agencies it will mean a loss of between 350 to 400 positions. In the larger agencies, the casualty list will be much higher.
No one in the public sector is surprised by political hypocrisy. Many have seen it from all sides. But if you are running a shock and awe strategy you should make sure your stated public position cannot be contradicted by your private directions. And if you want the community and your workforce to believe you are slashing job numbers due to the belt-tightening rhetoric, then get your symbolism right.
Don’t let your Science Minister and several staffers take a six-day, $113,000 trip to an international convention in the US during the period when you are telling the world that the financial sky is falling.
Don’t whinge about the state of your office furniture.
Don’t give backbenchers an $8270 annual pay bump if appointed to a committee (about $24,000 on top of your backbench salary over three years) with another "significant rise” agreed by the Federal Remuneration Committee under consideration for later this year, and then tell your work force that they are only worth 2.2 percent (with no more incremental increases) and be grateful please for the good of Queensland.
Don’t announce a master plan to house the Premier and senior ministers in swanky new buildings and still expect your workforce to accept “we all have to do it tough for the good of Queensland” line.
And what is to happen to those of us unlucky enough to be sitting in the wrong seats at the moment?
“Surplus staff” will be placed on a central register and case managed for up to six months. Staff will be offered two placements – assuming they can match your skills with available vacancies - after that there is retrenchment.
And before anyone says its time that Queensland's public service was slashed, just bear in mind that some areas now do not have enough staff left to undertake our core business. God help the State if we get another major flood.
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Looks like its the dole queue for me pretty soon
Double standards and bad manners
Queensland's public sector has been stunned by the level of vitriol being unleashed and many believe, being driven by the government. Public servants are faceless to the community. It’s not until nurses, teachers, teacher aides, parole officers, firefighters and child safety officers become involved that there is an understanding that these are real people and real jobs. They are tired of learning about their future, or their shortcomings, in the morning media.
More job cuts are expected to come. These are not temporary positions. These are permanent jobs, 25 per cent of which must be slashed from corporate office staff. It was being implemented when the Premier wrote his, "Hand on my heart, I am doing everything to protect your jobs" message. In the smaller agencies it will mean a loss of between 350 to 400 positions. In the larger agencies, the casualty list will be much higher.
No one in the public sector is surprised by political hypocrisy. Many have seen it from all sides. But if you are running a shock and awe strategy you should make sure your stated public position cannot be contradicted by your private directions. And if you want the community and your workforce to believe you are slashing job numbers due to the belt-tightening rhetoric, then get your symbolism right.
Don’t let your Science Minister and several staffers take a six-day, $113,000 trip to an international convention in the US during the period when you are telling the world that the financial sky is falling.
Don’t whinge about the state of your office furniture.
Don’t give backbenchers an $8270 annual pay bump if appointed to a committee (about $24,000 on top of your backbench salary over three years) with another "significant rise” agreed by the Federal Remuneration Committee under consideration for later this year, and then tell your work force that they are only worth 2.2 percent (with no more incremental increases) and be grateful please for the good of Queensland.
Don’t announce a master plan to house the Premier and senior ministers in swanky new buildings and still expect your workforce to accept “we all have to do it tough for the good of Queensland” line.
And what is to happen to those of us unlucky enough to be sitting in the wrong seats at the moment?
“Surplus staff” will be placed on a central register and case managed for up to six months. Staff will be offered two placements – assuming they can match your skills with available vacancies - after that there is retrenchment.
And before anyone says its time that Queensland's public service was slashed, just bear in mind that some areas now do not have enough staff left to undertake our core business. God help the State if we get another major flood.
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Looks like its the dole queue for me pretty soon
Jun 27th 2012, 7:22 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Tisn't good Hundreds of temporary contracts end on Friday, many have worked for Queensland Govt most of their lives.
The union is asking the rest of us to all wear black to support them & to show how bad we all think it is.
Then we all sit and wait to see whose turn it is next.
Hundreds of temporary contracts end on Friday, many have worked for Queensland Govt most of their lives. The union is asking the rest of us to all wear black to support them & to show how bad we all think it is.
Then we all sit and wait to see whose turn it is next.
Jun 27th 2012, 7:41 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Tisn't good Hundreds of temporary contracts end on Friday, many have worked for Queensland Govt most of their lives.
The union is asking the rest of us to all wear black to support them & to show how bad we all think it is.
Then we all sit and wait to see whose turn it is next.
Hundreds of temporary contracts end on Friday, many have worked for Queensland Govt most of their lives. The union is asking the rest of us to all wear black to support them & to show how bad we all think it is.
Then we all sit and wait to see whose turn it is next.
Jun 27th 2012, 7:44 am
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Jun 27th 2012, 8:08 am
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