I spent about six years in the public service and I would have been in the top quartile for laziness. During my last contract in the public service I would take ten smokos a day, take a week to do half a days work, turn up at 9.30am and leave at 4pm but still say I did an 8 hour day on my time sheet. Not only did I not have the competence, I had a bad attitude as well. Had I not of left I would have got myself fired which is no mean feat in the public service. It is pretty hard to fire someone in the public service. This is why taxi driving suits me.
We all know that public servants are lazy and wouldn't last a second in the private sector, not only that, but the public service wouldn't know efficiency if it smacked them on the head. Steve in TX13 has a regular customer called Greg who lives in Holt. Steve loves in when Greg calls up because he knows he got a $40 "cashy" to the City. If you don't know what a "cashy" is - google it. Greg told Steve that he used to be a public servant until he got made redundant. Greg used to have a public service job in Gladstone and got asked to move to Canberra for a year to do the same job. He moved and found that after a year he liked it so much that he wanted to stay. The Government agency brought another guy in to do the same job as Greg and offered Greg another public service job in Gladstone. Greg told them he wanted to stay so they said okay. The problem was there was no work for him because it was all given to the new guy. For the first two weeks, Greg thought it was awesome. No work to do, getting paid $90,000 a year, take a smoko when he wanted, go for coffees. All good. Eventually he started to go insane so he became a movie watcher. He would go to the movies and watch films three times over. And you know how long Greg was given no work for before they decided to make him redundant? Two years. Yep that's right. Two years. Efficiency? I don't think so.
