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Winds of change blowing
charter for sycophancy
to be seen to do
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by Scooj
- I have been around the block a few times in my job as a public servant and civil servant, and observed the ‘change lust’ that occupies Ministers, their Special Advisers and organisational seniors. It is a sight to see, where ‘yes men and women’ unquestioningly make change, because ‘change is the new norm’, and who would dare challenge or suggest alternatives.
- All Governments and Government Departments do it. It causes disruption, but the surge in activity looks like something is being done, and ‘that’s what the voters want to see’. What the voters don’t see are the inefficiencies of change, the costs of change, and that top-down change rarely results in the outcomes hoped for, but hey ‘at least we were doing something’.
- I’m an old cynic. It is my job to question and to call out what I think is wrong. I am no pragmatist or ‘human resource counter’, I am a brilliant employee who has to go through and try to survive another huge change, but survive I will. And all the others who are caught up in this flurry of excitement will move on and take their disruption with them.
Natural adventures 
Spot on. I don’t know about the specifics you are dealing with right now in the UK, but I’m pretty sure you’re aware of the chaos over here in the USA, what with Musk having danced around with his chainsaw giggling that he’s having fun at his job (firing tens of thousands), and the whole administration gleefully wiping out entire agencies (or, in the case of Social Security, where they say they are not getting rid of it but instead they are just defunding the crap out of it so that it can’t work). And we voted for this (not me personally) because: change. The amount of money that has been wasted for “efficiency” is just… there are no words, because of the human suffering that goes along with.
I wish you well in what sounds like an upcoming difficult time.
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Thank you – nothing so extreme here I am glad to say, but I am trying to highlight the gross inefficiencies of kowtowing to every new idea, and the costs associated with ‘priorities’ which in a few months will be forgotten. It is all about creating the right ‘mood music’ for potential voters – telling the people what they want to hear, in preference to getting on with, and focussing on the job in hand. Deeply frustrating and disruptive. All governments of all colours do the same thing.
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All governments of all colours do the same thing… yes. Sometimes they do it more “flamboyantly” than others.
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Of course. What is happening on your side of the pond is extreme.
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Honestly, it’s becoming exhausting.
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You put it perfectly.
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Sigh and nothing is making a difference. It’s as if things have split in two and it’s us against them. I’m just waiting for another civil war or revolution. I don’t see how anything will change in the US without one of those.
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I hope sense will prevail.
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Vive la révolution . . .
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Indeed.
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Our government has no sense. None. Our president can barely read.
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I have to remind myself in these situations. It will pass.
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I don’t know if I have that much time left. LOL He’s such a moron and people are dying because of him.
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Hang on in there.
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The country is so divided and there’s so hope in sight with the idiot in charge. Something has to give. I’m counting on that. The republicans have to go.
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I agree, and I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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We all are.
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