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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Thanks! At last somebody understands!

   

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.

   

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

strange...

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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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