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To: E. Charters who wrote (44784)	7/13/2007 7:23:31 PM
From: russet	Respond to of 78416

Government geologist,...recently retired from the rock collection and map selling room,...$60,000 canuck buck a year inflation adjusted pension with benefits including survivor benefit. Will now sell his big home in Ottawa for $600,000 and retire to the small cottage on the river,...also worth almost $600,000 and travel the world (which he's already been doing for decades on the government ticket) and live the life of Conrad Black (pre trial) until the Government's idea of inflation (core without all the costs that go up year over year)that his pension is tied to comes back to bite him in the arse (if he lives that long) Principles?,...you sure? :-)

To: E. Charters who wrote (44784)	7/13/2007 7:24:54 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

It’s amazing to me how people stereotype civil servants as lazy. Having grown up in a government town, I know and have worked with quite a few, and they work just as hard, if not harder, than the people I know who work in the private sector. There are reasons why bureaucracies work, and/or fail to work, the way they do. People often mistake the strictures of working in a bureaucracy for laziness on behalf of the workers. This failing is especially true for die-hard individualists, who seem unable to grasp this, probably because they are the last people who would ever want to work in a bureaucracy. But if you are interesting in learning more about this topic, I would recommend starting with the brilliant insights of Max Weber and moving forward from there through studies in organizational communication and sociology. The bureaucratic method of operation is a very powerful tool, and like all powerful tools, its use both confer great benefits and, sometimes at the same time, can be very detrimental. LC