Tim Worstall

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Explaining the public sector

March 7th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Yes, we all know it’s damn near impossible to get fired from it but:

Hiring someone in the prison service involves grinding through a gruelling 39 steps. The National Audit Office found that at HM Revenue & Customs it typically took 212 days to hire someone.

That’s absurd.

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4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Brian, follower of Deornoth // Mar 7, 2010 at 10:22 am

    “people in the public sector aren’t happy”

    They know, deep down, in their hearts, that they are valueless vermin.

  • 2 Ben // Mar 7, 2010 at 10:26 am

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Install-or-change-a-display-language

  • 3 Tim Newman // Mar 7, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    It’s like this in the oil and gas business:

    1 day to receive and read your CV and decide to interview you
    6 months of them getting around to doing so
    1 day to interview you
    3 months of them getting back to you
    2-3 days to thrash out the T&Cs

    Inevitably, the first thing said to you on your first day by half a dozen people is “It’s a pity you weren’t on board 6 months ago, we could have really used you back then…”

  • 4 Chuckles // Mar 7, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    Given the apparent quality of the people they do employ, would that they would take twice as long, or more.

    The country might even grind to a full recovery while they were at it.

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