kelownabomberfan

Imagine this movie being made today...

My thoughts exactly.

Ok - I give up.

just make sure you fill in your TPS reports...

I think if you read GCN's posts, you'd see the exact problem. It's well laid out. Too much management, not enough worker bees. It's really not hard to understand. It's no different than when a friend of mine was brought in to clean up Saskoil after years of NDP mismanagement. There were layers upon layers of vice presidents, with entire staffs, that were literally just pushing papers up and down, and adding zero value. After doing an analysis there were millions of dollars of costs identified that were adding no value whatsoever to the corporation. Everything was streamlined and hundreds of redundant employees (NDP cronies) were ****-canned. And Saskoil finally began turning a profit. I get that you want to protect the NDP from looking too bad here, but it's a losing battle. There is just too much evidence.

No disrespect Jacquie, but unless you are involved in the civil service how would anyone know? I don't know. I've also noticed that there are two kinds of efficiency. Real world efficiency and government efficiency. Government efficiency runs at about half of the real world. If you are lucky. From the sounds of things the NDP hired so many managers that they were a lot less than that. If GCN has a spouse close to the action in Manitoba I'm prepared to accept a lot of what he says. I myself have a spouse in the BC government, and the waste that goes on due to the sheer lack of accountability and ass-covering is just monumental. And that's AFTER the Liberals came in and cleaned up the REAL FAT that the NDP had injected, and was cut. The horror stories from the NDP era in BC are too sad to even mention. What's going to hit a lot of government, and is hitting already, are the mass retirements of thousands of baby boomers. All of that education and experience is just going to go "poof".

They didn't really "give up" salary increases, they were demanding salary increases that even the NDP couldn't stomach (which shows how over the top gross they were) and so the NDP, trying to please their union masters while also trying to spin it as a win to the general public, thought the public wouldn't understand just how crazy it was for an employer to give up control over hiring to a union, and gave in on that concession, rather than give the BCTF giant raises. The BCTF of course jumped on the offer, because they were essentially given a license to hire, with a bottomless pit as a budget. What union wouldn't take that deal? The BCTF is universally hated in BC by both the public and other unions as they always ask for/demand way more money in raises than everyone else. CUPE was mad at them last year because they had to close down when the BCTF went on strike, and it made them look bad too. Of all of the recent union negotiations, the BCTF was the only union that actually went on strike. Even the nurses just settled a few weeks ago.

I need to share this with my idealized nieces and nephews who are so brain-washed by their teachers right now they are only capable of voting either NDP or Green. Though I doubt that any of what you are saying would sink in, or it would be just ignored. I talk about the bloated wasteland that the NDP created here in BC in the 1990's but all I get are excuses. There is literally no excuse for this kind of hiring and management behaviour. It is clear is it purely done to placate the insatiable need of the unions to have as many dues-paying members as possible, at the cost of the taxpayers. It is corruption, through and through, though extremely hard to prove.

one of my favorite Dave Chappelle shows...

The Sharks and their fans seem really keyed up to beat the Kings this year. Guess they are tired of losing all of the time. They even have a slogan "Break the Line" and the fans were going nuts last night in SJ chanting "Beat the Kings". Or something like that.

yeah on the other hand though, I don't see why you need to claw back pensions on people who entered public service with the expectation at the end of the day they'd have a good pension. Being an MLA is a hard job, and I would like to see that pay and benefits are such that the job attracts good qualified people. I don't begrudge Steve Ashton his pension, he served for 35 years.

Didn't LA come back from a 3-0 deficit a few years ago? I only remember that because I took a whole bunch of Sharks and was rubbing it in to everyone else in my pool how dumb they were for picking Kings. I forgot the power of suck that is Joe Thornton in the playoffs.

I think this is just going after chump change. Time to go after the big dollar waste. And it must be big. The NDP was over spending by half a billion a year. How is that even possible?

I will agree with you if this were 1989. He's totally screwed himself over with his party lifestyle. I don't see his voice lasting much longer as it already sounds pretty shot. If you want to go long you have to take care of yourself, like Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney. And Bobby Curtola.

Denied! I really like that definition of political correctness, sums up the whole thing perfectly.

ok not a hoax. That's sad news. Died way too young. Why is it always the talented ones that go so young? Motley Crue and Axl Rose are probably going to live to 120.

I am thinking it's high time I did too. Twenty-five years of free agency after never being signed in the first place is enough, I have to start to accept reality.

I get that, but do they need tackling dummies too?

I am thinking this is a hoax.

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

In cases like these, the only way to get the politicians off their butts is to go to the media. But it really sounds like the issue is not enough doctors. We are doing ok here because we've had a lot of South African doctors coming to live here, just because it's a nice place to live, and they are wanting to get out of South Africa. I doubt you'll get too many doctors moving from Capetown to Thompson though. Might make a good background story for a CBC sitcom.

From what I hear, this is what is going on in Alberta right now.

I can agree with this, though as I said she may want to distance herself from the NDP, which may help her. I do think though that if she governed more for the center and could show some real results she has a chance to look like a hero to the people of Alberta. Campaigning for more pipelines help. It's too bad she gave in on that carbon tax garbage, that will probably bite her.

Well said.