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Topic: Wanna earn the big bucks?
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DrConway
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posted 12 July 2003 07:50 PM
That's a very expensive training consultant.  BTW, I don't like the way this has been written in the breathy style you often see for corporate equivalents of these jobs. The government is not a business and shouldn't be acting like one. quote:
Take the challenge to effect change at the Office of the Provincial Controller (OPC) and join the modern controllership training team. Modern controllership is an initiative led by the OPC to change the way we do business.
Ick. [ 12 July 2003: Message edited by: DrConway ]
From: You shall not side with the great against the powerless. | Registered: May 2001
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beluga2
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posted 12 July 2003 09:13 PM
Let's see:($79,307 per hour) X (40-hour-work-week) X (52 weeks) = $164,958,560 per year. The sad thing is, that's actually not out of the realm of possibility -- there really are CEO's who make that much. 
From: vancouvergrad, BCSSR | Registered: Mar 2003
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worker_drone
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posted 14 July 2003 12:55 PM
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The government is not a business and shouldn't be acting like one
Have you ever worked for the government Dr. Conway? It is a business and yes, it does run like one, albeit a large, slow, monopolistic and bureaucratic one. But thanks for the tip Michelle. I know people who are actually looking for a job like this and I'm going to pass it along. I'm reading the salary as the annual amount but the job being paid as hourly, and not salaried. It's not out of line with what the private sector is paying for this kind of position.
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batz
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posted 22 July 2003 10:19 PM
The government should be run more like an economy of different businesses than a single one, or a monolithic public service provider. It is a risk-averse culture where accountability is avoided at all costs. They don't even use email if they don't have to so that they don't have to write anything down. Many departments are micro managed, which means there are no meaningfully objective results to measure performance against, and due to the cashlessness created by union policies against bonuses, things like training and projects are used as an internal currency to reward loyalty and punish talent. There is no leadership, as leadership implies accountability, so there is only management. Fractally bifurcating levels of micro-management. Government doesn't neccesarily need to be run as a profit generating business, but it certainly needs to be run as something other than a feudal society of fiefdoms run by idle-lifers holding out for their pensions. I'm sure there are sound social principles to run government by that allow for the occasional weeding of the garden.
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