As one of the animal species, I think man has just stuck his nose out
from the forest and is only now on the verge of /re/discovering what he
should be capable of when enlightened. But we ain't there yet!
D.
On 01/10/2012 4:29 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
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+counselling/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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