Recently a Republican CEO from a company that services the public decided to prove how much more efficient he was by going on food stamps for a week. At the end of the week he said that cooking takes a lot of time and doesn't leave much time for work. It's a job. If we could first find respect for each other and throw the "he's getting away with something" language then perhaps we could come together in some big Interactive Management situation and plan a way out of this. But this toxic hate language about "why me" just tells me that the person saying it hasn't really gotten the point of why it's happened. Musicians spend up to ten hours a day practicing at no pay and get $250 for a concert. I don't see that any civil servant is any more expert or hard working than those musicians and yet we don't blast the civil service, although I could have last week when two hospitals forgot my operation and destroyed our fall Festival holy days with their lack of sensitivity. All on 2012. Maybe the toxic version of 2012 is true after all. War forever.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 3:58 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] Lay-offs in the Canadian public service An article in today's Ottawa Citizen on how public servants are reacting to letters they receive from their employer, the Government of Canada, advising them that their jobs may be "affected" - ie. cut. In general, the article indicates that, with some 20,000 jobs to be cut, there is a lot of stress in the Canadian public service right now. There has already been one suicide. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/downsizing+creates+rise+requests+counsel ling/7322589/story.html The people who are being affected are not poor folk who never made it to high school. Typically, they are university graduates who have put a lot of time and effort into their work and who thought they were building long-term careers in the public service. Ed
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