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'Harper Hates Me' buttons spark conflict in public service

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Gunnair @ Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:09 am

gonavy47 gonavy47:
Oh, and I'm still in too, 38 years service and counting...


Good for you. Thankfully one person on this board finds what you do to be so amazingly important.

   



Gunnair @ Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:10 am

gonavy47 gonavy47:
Not oneupmanship, just saying the work was not too "demeaning" for me. As for ending the conversation, carry on...


Well, more accurately it was a feeble attempt at oneupmanship. Sadly, you just didn't do it with that post. :wink:

   



ShepherdsDog @ Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:22 am

Gunnair Gunnair:
2Cdo 2Cdo:
Gunnair Gunnair:

If that's supposed to be a conversation ender through oneupmanship then I've put mine on the line for 26 years and continue to do so....

:roll:


Rookies, one month shy of 30 years. 8)

Now I just relax and listen to the wife nag me about finding a job. :lol:


[B-o] Yeah. Well I'm angling for another sea posting or even a staff job next.

Why not just get your commission and go as a deck officer. That way you get to be the silverback.

   



PublicAnimalNo9 @ Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:26 am

$1:
The Ottawa Citizen reports that almost 50% of disability claims by public servants last year were for mental illness. That follows an earlier report indicating federal employees take double the number of sick days as those in the private sector, and that on any given day 19,000 bureaucrats are off the job on some kind of medical leave. Working for the government, it seems, not only makes you sick but drives you crazy.

Well, it ain't the CPC that's the cause. Anyone with half a brain and a memory that goes beyond yesterday knows it too. My father was a federal swivel servant starting in 1972. Absenteeism was bad, alcohol and drug abuse were present in the work place, God only knows how many days he called in made me call in sick on his behalf because he was too drunk or hungover to make it.
When I entered the federal swivel service at the end of the 80s, very little had changed. Drug and alcohol abuse were still present in the workplace. EVERY day in my department, someone was missing because they were "sick". And the ridiculous thing was, how many times those people happened to be "sick" on a Friday and/or Monday.

You weren't allowed to talk smack about the gov't to those outside of the swivel service, while at work back then either.

The attempt to somehow paint this as all Harper's fault is beyond laughable.

   



RUEZ @ Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:25 am

Gunnair Gunnair:
gonavy47 gonavy47:
Not oneupmanship, just saying the work was not too "demeaning" for me. As for ending the conversation, carry on...


Well, more accurately it was a feeble attempt at oneupmanship. Sadly, you just didn't do it with that post. :wink:

I think he was actually responding to someone suggesting that military work was to demanding for him, by explaining that he is in the military.

   



andyt @ Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:33 am

Oh, yeah? I hear the CPC is making up buttons in response that say: "Don't sweat it, Harper hates everybody."

   



gonavy47 @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:29 pm

RUEZ RUEZ:
Gunnair Gunnair:
gonavy47 gonavy47:
Not oneupmanship, just saying the work was not too "demeaning" for me. As for ending the conversation, carry on...


Well, more accurately it was a feeble attempt at oneupmanship. Sadly, you just didn't do it with that post. :wink:

I think he was actually responding to someone suggesting that military work was to demanding for him, by explaining that he is in the military.

Thanks! At last somebody understands!

   



Gunnair @ Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:01 pm

RUEZ RUEZ:
Gunnair Gunnair:
gonavy47 gonavy47:
Not oneupmanship, just saying the work was not too "demeaning" for me. As for ending the conversation, carry on...


Well, more accurately it was a feeble attempt at oneupmanship. Sadly, you just didn't do it with that post. :wink:

I think he was actually responding to someone suggesting that military work was to demanding for him, by explaining that he is in the military.


$1:
Work for the government? It's showing!


All this was in response to this. I would think some dude with 38 years in the CF would realize that he to works for the government.

   



uwish @ Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:43 pm

Funny when the Liberals did this under crooked face I don't recall any "Chretien hates me" shirts???

strange...

   



2Cdo @ Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:49 pm

uwish uwish:
Funny when the Liberals did this under crooked face I don't recall any "Chretien hates me" shirts???

strange...


ROTFL

According to some lefties Chretein could do no wrong, he is almost as untouchable as that other fuckwit Trudeau.

   



gonavy47 @ Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:57 am

Gunnair, when you misunderstand, you go all the way! Well done!

   



Zipperfish @ Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:35 pm

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:
$1:
The Ottawa Citizen reports that almost 50% of disability claims by public servants last year were for mental illness. That follows an earlier report indicating federal employees take double the number of sick days as those in the private sector, and that on any given day 19,000 bureaucrats are off the job on some kind of medical leave. Working for the government, it seems, not only makes you sick but drives you crazy.

Well, it ain't the CPC that's the cause. Anyone with half a brain and a memory that goes beyond yesterday knows it too. My father was a federal swivel servant starting in 1972. Absenteeism was bad, alcohol and drug abuse were present in the work place, God only knows how many days he called in made me call in sick on his behalf because he was too drunk or hungover to make it.
When I entered the federal swivel service at the end of the 80s, very little had changed. Drug and alcohol abuse were still present in the workplace. EVERY day in my department, someone was missing because they were "sick". And the ridiculous thing was, how many times those people happened to be "sick" on a Friday and/or Monday.

You weren't allowed to talk smack about the gov't to those outside of the swivel service, while at work back then either.

The attempt to somehow paint this as all Harper's fault is beyond laughable.


I disagree. I joined the civil service in the early 90s. I was there for many years. When Harper got in it started to suck hard fast. That's why I took my year off and went to work in Kabul. It was immediately noticeable and unlike anything I had experienced in the past. Mind you, I was in one of the science departments, and they've taken the brunt of Harper's animosity. He hates science almost as much as he hates gummint workers.

   



Zipperfish @ Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:36 pm

gonavy47 gonavy47:
Gunnair, when you misunderstand, you go all the way! Well done!


Whatevs. You decided to take a snarky swipe at me for having been a government worker and then--lo and behold--admit to being on the taxpayer's tit for a hell of a lot longer than I was. Like it says in the good book: Pride goeth before the fall, bitches. :lol:

   



2Cdo @ Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:39 pm

Zipperfish Zipperfish:
I disagree. I joined the civil service in the early 90s. I was there for many years. When Harper got in it started to suck hard fast. That's why I took my year off and went to work in Kabul. It was immediately noticeable and unlike anything I had experienced in the past. Mind you, I was in one of the science departments, and they've taken the brunt of Harper's animosity. He hates science almost as much as he hates gummint workers.


:roll:

You were fine until the political hackery at the end. We know you think everything was peaches and cream and fluffy clouds and rainbows when the Libs were in charge.

   



Zipperfish @ Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:18 pm

2Cdo 2Cdo:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
I disagree. I joined the civil service in the early 90s. I was there for many years. When Harper got in it started to suck hard fast. That's why I took my year off and went to work in Kabul. It was immediately noticeable and unlike anything I had experienced in the past. Mind you, I was in one of the science departments, and they've taken the brunt of Harper's animosity. He hates science almost as much as he hates gummint workers.


:roll:

You were fine until the political hackery at the end. We know you think everything was peaches and cream and fluffy clouds and rainbows when the Libs were in charge.


Wasn't peaches and cream, but a decent job. It was tough when Martin was in--he cut back a lot, but we didn't get the monthly nastygrams warning of us of the horrible things would be done to us if we talked to anyone outside of government. Even when staff were subpoenaed to appear at inquries adn hearings, they were run down by gummint lawyers first telling them what they had to say.

It's not political hackery. Harper doesn't like scientists. He's run a bunch of them out of government. And his attitude about gummint workers shouldn't surprise you--you seem to share it, along with most of the rest of the right-wingers here.

   



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