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Jesus wept!
Have a listen to the latest “Focus on Politics” at RNZ.
It epitomises the problems with our neo-lib public service.
“I can’t just do this”…….. “I can’t just do that” – blah de blah blah blah blah.
No you can’t Tracey, and nor can other Munsters across various portfolios. (A heap encompassing the Munstry of Everything; NZTA, MSD/WINZ, Krekshuns, and various others)
What you CAN do though is to write to the SSC (privately) pointing out your dissatisfaction (IF indeed you are pretending to be dissatisfied) outlining points of non-performance. AND do it repeatedly as and when there are repeated failures – as there are, and as a matter of record.
Put it on the SSC – who should be monitoring performance, AND with regard to an elected gummint’s policies and intentions. You know – the sort of things an electorate voted for
Fuck me with a feather duster!
And if and when you discover that the various processes and procedures that comprise this little neo-liberal managerial orgasm aren’t actually working (as supposedly designed and promoted a few decades ago, ) then maybe look at finding better ways of doing things.
Actually. all that of course assumes Tracey and “the team” at OT have all their cutesie little purchase agreements and KPIs in order, along with various expectations of the ‘deliverables’.
Or maybe they were all just “aspirational”.
I had to listen to that Focus on Politics again. My ears weren’t deceiving me.
Don’t be surprised if we now need to parachute in someone from the Chicago School to assist in developing various purchase agreements and aspirational KPIs.
And here’s me thinking Tracey (from NZ1) was just a tiny bit cynical of neo-liberalism.
Tim – Establishing a matter of record is the crux here. I wrote to Mark Prebble, the then SSC re a govt dept.
I received a fairly meticulous reply, including agreement with one of my points. I always post a hard copy, not email.
I wrote because I was dissatisfied with the reply I’d received from the person answering on behalf of the Govt Dept CE. The SSC has to cover himself too; bringing an issue to his attention is an effective mechanism .
I’ve always been bothered by voting blocks. Especially those based on race and the assumptions that are made when talking about groups of people. The US election has thrown up a few interesting talking points around this topic. Tina Vasquez has written a fantastic piece of reflexive journalism on it – link below.
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/2020-election-the-latino-vote-doesnt-exist
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