Civil Service Culture..Alf says..

[offshoremanxman]

9 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

Quite possibly because they think that if the true costs were made public now it might lead to an outcry of disgust and unrest?

It suggests that whoever asked the question didn’t really ask the right question as you’d want to bring pensions, confidential settlements, and other matters within the scope of the question in order to get the right answer. 

[Non-Believer]

Now here's a thing....

 

 

[Omobono]

2 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

Now here's a thing....

 

 

and while there at it instruct every government department ,during working hours , to have someone available to answer a telephone , of better still have the landline divert to the mobile of the government officer or official you have been trying to contact , then send them all on a public service  and customer  training course , because the people paying the wages are finding it evert more difficult to speak to anyone in the Ivory Towers , and fed up with getting the run around every time they wish to speak to ,   or obtain advise from someone in government 

[Newsdesk]

2 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

Now here's a thing....

 

 

This has needed doing for ages and is in advance of the committee on whistleblowing reaching its conclusions I think. I bet it will be busy. Is government now advertising this internally so every possible employee knows about it’s existence? 

[x-in-man]

That'll be inundated with calls from just a handful of people - mostly wasting time and resources.

[Newsdesk]

34 minutes ago, x-in-man said:

That'll be inundated with calls from just a handful of people - mostly wasting time and resources.

It doesn’t matter they’ve needed this sort of service for years and the Ranson case has highlighted it all perfectly. If a few lazy shit stirrers use it then it’s a small price to pay for everyone else to use it to circumvent a corrupt management chain. 

[Wavey Davey]

13 minutes ago, Newsdesk said:

It doesn’t matter they’ve needed this sort of service for years and the Ranson case has highlighted it all perfectly. If a few lazy shit stirrers use it then it’s a small price to pay for everyone else to use it to circumvent a corrupt management chain. 

Correct this looks like the sort of thing that the big banks use. So there will likely be enough third party trained resource in there to work out the shit stirrers from the genuine whistle blowers and to undertake proper investigations and recommendations. I can’t find anything on Google though about who provides the phone line and platform. But there are a few specialist third party companies in this space. 

[Apple]

4 hours ago, Wavey Davey said:

But there are a few specialist third party companies in this space. 

Is the phone in the HR office ?

[Steady Eddie]

1 hour ago, C Montgomery Burns said:

This makes you wonder how many of these we’ve got.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11486867/Irish-Rail-worker-paid-105-000-year-read-paper-takes-employers-court.html

That just shows you what governments are like. Anywhere else he’d have been made redundant but only in the public sector could they keep on paying you £105K to literally do bugger all for years and years rather than pull the plug. 

[2112]

11 minutes ago, Steady Eddie said:

That just shows you what governments are like. Anywhere else he’d have been made redundant but only in the public sector could they keep on paying you £105K to literally do bugger all for years and years rather than pull the plug. 

We pay politicos over £70,000 a year to do virtually nothing, and create havoc for islanders. 

[Banker]

13 minutes ago, 2112 said:

We pay politicos over £70,000 a year to do virtually nothing, and create havoc for islanders. 

Bit like deputy assistant town clerk’s etc etc in local authorities!!

[Thorulf]

2 hours ago, C Montgomery Burns said:

This makes you wonder how many of these we’ve got.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11486867/Irish-Rail-worker-paid-105-000-year-read-paper-takes-employers-court.html

Lots, usually someone's spouse or relatives.

[Non-Believer]

Well, Alf's original edict was in June, it's now December so he's got six months left to formulate and implement said reforms.

Can we have a progress report please Alf?

[asitis]

I'll never understand why we, (the taxpayers), pay hundreds of these tinpot bureaucrats to make our lives a misery !

[Roger Mexico]

9 hours ago, Steady Eddie said:

11 hours ago, C Montgomery Burns said:

This makes you wonder how many of these we’ve got.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11486867/Irish-Rail-worker-paid-105-000-year-read-paper-takes-employers-court.html

That just shows you what governments are like. Anywhere else he’d have been made redundant but only in the public sector could they keep on paying you £105K to literally do bugger all for years and years rather than pull the plug. 

You didn't read the story, did you?

The guy discovered something dodgy going on and whistle-blowed on it, first to his superiors and then to the relevant government Minister.   In revenge the management took away the vast majority of his work and sent him to Coventry, excluding him from meetings, training etc.  It's rather similar to the way the DHSC treated Ranson.

But what they're not going to do is to sack him or make him officially redundant.  Because that would give him the opportunity to go a Tribunal and disclose all the dirty laundry.  They were hoping to 'manage him out' and that he would leave of his own accord or take early retirement or whatever.  But he hung on and now they've ended up in the Tribunal they were trying to avoid.

And if you think this sort of thing doesn't happen in private industry, you're completely mistaken.  People are often shunted into high-earning non-jobs (often after losing some power-struggle) to try to get rid of them quietly, often as a prelude to being pensioned off with eye-watering amounts of cash.