Senior Civil Servants Secret Job Cut Plan

[Sligoboy]

It wouldn't surprise me in the least that lazy layabout senior civil servants would try to tone down the OECD findings. The government should fire a lot more than 8,000 civil servants and get them out to work in the efficient private sector. There are probably some civil servants who wouldn't last a month in the private sector. The government needs to trim the public sector by 80,000 not 8,000 across all departments and should privatise all semi state comercial activity. Generous state pensions should be abolished and the trade unions should be kicked out of the public sector. I have zero tolerance for public sector workers with their lifelong job security. Finally they should all take a 5% pay cut like employees have recently done in private sector companies.

You clearly haven't read the opening post or the OECD report.

[evercloserunion]

This looks like a big story to me. 5 Senior Civil Servants conspired with an OECD group charged with conducting a review of public sector activities to recommend 8,000 job cuts. This is exactly what we need but they were frustrated in their efforts.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news ... 69794.html

Tell that to the 8,000 people who are going to be put out of work that this is exactly what we need.

This is ridiculous. 200 people lose their jobs and it' a national outrage, but 8,000 people lose their jobs and it's just what we need?

[HanleyS]

8,000 people who don't want to work. The proposed method of reducing numbers was voluntary redundancy. i.e. paying them off.

[evercloserunion]

You're just an idiot if you think that all civil servants don't want to work, I generally prefer to be civil in these threads but that's just such a stupid and offensive thing to say.

Do you just do it for the attention?

[HanleyS]

You're just an idiot if you think that all civil servants don't want to work, I generally prefer to be civil in these threads but that's just such a stupid and offensive thing to say.

Do you just do it for the attention?

???

I didn't say that. I said 8,000 people who don't want to work. Not all civil servants. Maybe they won't find 8,000 people who want to cash in. Who knows?

[evercloserunion]

You're just an idiot if you think that all civil servants don't want to work, I generally prefer to be civil in these threads but that's just such a stupid and offensive thing to say.

Do you just do it for the attention?

???

I didn't say that. I said 8,000 people who don't want to work. Not all civil servants. Maybe they won't find 8,000 people who want to cash in. Who knows?

Fair enough, apologies for misreading you. Just direct my last post at flyer than.

[bobbysands81]

agreed...i am sick of paying for lazy morons who cannot deliver a service.....every time i deal with them there is a problem. this year alone, revenue got my tax details wrong, it took the council 5 weeks to deliver a bin, the same council tried to fine me (rescinded after I threatened to sue), and it took alomst 3 weeks to get basic transcripts from UCD. I am sick of seeing my money being used to put more cushions under their a.rses. I want sackings and pay cuts for these clowns.

You can't even differentiate between the Civil and Public Service.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least that lazy layabout senior civil servants would try to tone down the OECD findings. The government should fire a lot more than 8,000 civil servants and get them out to work in the efficient private sector. There are probably some civil servants who wouldn't last a month in the private sector. The government needs to trim the public sector by 80,000 not 8,000 across all departments and should privatise all semi state comercial activity. Generous state pensions should be abolished and the trade unions should be kicked out of the public sector. I have zero tolerance for public sector workers with their lifelong job security. Finally they should all take a 5% pay cut like employees have recently done in private sector companies.

It's easy to make mass generalisations like that. It's much harder to give specific examples citing reality.

As for efficient private sector - HA! It's the inefficiency and greed of the private sector that has us where we currently are.

[robert151410]

Senior civil servants my hole. They do no work, have any number of holidays, sick days and special leave and are completely unaccountable.

Being a civil servant is akin to winning a jackpot.

[bobbysands81]

Senior civil servants my hole. They do no work, have any number of holidays, sick days and special leave and are completely unaccountable.

Being a civil servant is akin to winning a jackpot.

Wrong on all accounts, but hey keep your lies up.

Any fool can comment, and like the above poster tell lies, about the Civil Service.

[robert151410]

They are sitting on their holes scratching their fannies all day. We need to sack thousands of them. They produce absolutely nothing.