"However the public sector employees can be quite competent and very productive and doing things that are totally useless
Your original accusation was that they are less productive. Now you accuse them of being less useful! Accusations are wonderful, aren't they?<g> Nice if it wasn't just rhetoric, but had some evidentiary support.
However the private sector employees can be quite competent and very productive at doing things that are totally useless. They can be highly motivated to perform the functions of their Company, and they can have great marks on their personal records but that doesn't help things if the task their Company gives them is ill-conceived, stupid, or counter-productive.
The desire of the private employee to see his or her Company persevere can even increase the possibility of the Company doing useless or counter-productive things on their way to bankruptcy. They are not likely to report on how their Company is stupid, or useless. Such rebellion is often met with summary dismissal and no future reference. Sometimes an employee takes a chance; but an unproductive Company seems to know the road to bankruptcy.
There were a great number of non-productive dot.com companies in the private sector. It is very common for the private sector to be unproductive, as companies are often started without appropriate research or experience, and without qualified employees: On a hope and a prayer, as the saying goes. Private companies come and go by the milions at the cost and time of a name search and 1 hour at the lawyer's office. Public work, however, must pass through several levels of evaluation and demonstration bfore finally being given existence before the penetrating eyes of internal and external evaluation.
One can imagine how productive some private companies can be by simply looking at bankruptcy statistics and noting that there is always a line-up.<g>
Of course, by going out of business a Company does not become more productive. It simply goes out of business. The other unproductive companies continue down the stream toward bankruptcy; while new companies step into the river--some to be productive and successful, and many others to fail.
One of the reasons private companies fail is because they are started by untrained and unrealistic people pushing useless or unproductive ideas. Too often their employees are uneducated, untrained, and unproductive. When the company goes bankrupt the same employees get hired by some other loser. It is a real vicious circle which tends to lock in unproductiveness and inefficiency at several levels of the private sector. This doesn't happen in the public sector because of a more comprehensive record keeping for public employees, as well as a more stringent acounting...
Christ! I can tell you of many people who went bankrupt, and were on the road next month--same truck, same driver, different colour...LOL!! The bankruptcy of inefficient private operations, and their resurgence next month with the same employees and different decals and business cards is a huge laugh!! Of course you need to be out in the world a little bit to understand how numbered corporations work--LOL!!
Government workers are subject to outside surveys and evaluations independent of internal interests. They are subject to objective evaluation outside of the partiality and nepotism which always obtains in the private sector. ;-)
Government workers are normally subject to measurable performance standards, and they are evaluated on an ongoing basis as to how productive and efficient they are...something that is alien to most of the private sector who often fly by the seat of their pants!
In work that properly belongs to the public interest, Government has the option sometimes of contracting the work out to private sector employees. This adds a middleman to the equation (the management team which requires a reasonable profit). This often results in a decrease in worker benefits and a higher turnover of staff, and generally a more costly and less productive operation.
Public service employees are normally held to more accountable and documented standards than those in the private sector. This is common knowledge to everyone in the real world. Their productivity levels and competencies are forever being measured.
In terms of the particular agency itself...the smallest change in service (productivity) is met with public screaching and criticism. They want the service; and they insist that it meet the very highest standards...but they do not wish to pay for it! <gg>
I know public employees who are sooooo dedicated. The dedication of employees to their work depends upon their character. It is really a simple idea. That is why I do not attempt to insult individuals by the prejudicial judgment of which sector they work in. I find it an ugly prejudice. True productivity and character is properly measured on a case by case basis. But I know you wish to continue to insult public sector employees, so I will keep giving the facts and the laughs back at you...;-) |
