One of the many reasons we can’t have a properly functioning HSE
I used to consult public sector. You basically become a public servant and have to do their work for them. I have never in my life come across a more useless, lazy bunch of people than the staff found across the public sector in Ireland.
Constant yapping, absolutely no skillset beyond Microsoft Word if you were lucky, randomly disappearing for hours when you need to speak with them (“I was on a tea break”).
A lot of these “transformation” projects are glorified money sinks for private consulting corporations but it’s because the public employees have zero interest in engaging with them and therefore there’s never an actual handover. You would be sick to find out how many vital public services are ran entirely by a team of 25-30 year old consultants and not an actual government department employee(s).
Blaming the private corporation for doing what makes money and not the government and senior staff is so typical public sector mentality it’s basically comedy.
I was going to say unions will defend it but…when I opened the article it’s actually unions telling their members this.
Unions have a role to play but they’re so often anti efficiency.
Unions role should be protecting employees rights, not squeezing as much as possible out of their employer to its detriment.
I had the misfortune of working on a project in CUH.
After it , the company I worked for refused to ever deal with the HSE again.
It’s full of failed & utterly useless people.
This is why big corporations can convince a lot of people (in IT) that unions are bad and we shouldn’t have them.
I’m very pro union, but it has to be said that the public sector really has a bunch of dead weight who are literally only employed because they can’t be sacked / it’s not worth the hassel. It’s great in a sense to see unions defend their members so we’ll, but it’s also disheartening for the other that work with the dead weight and have to deal with them.
Especially in this case where I can only imagine they’re annoyed at the fact that they hired in consultants to most likely plug holes that their “senior” staff can’t fill.
In IT, the argument is that if you join a union, you’ll only really be protecting bad workers, and they point to the public sector as a prime example.
I’m also slightly biased as I’ve worked as a consultant for the HSE through my company before. It’s hell. The senior staff tend to be completely useless who literally don’t want anything to change because they “know how to do it the old way” it’s extremely frustrating especially in management meetings where I had to explain the issues I was having and they’d immediately jump back saying we were the problem/not doing our job / looking for more money……yeah we are looking for more money because your not fucking doing your job padraig.
>PWC consultants, hired to implement a “transformation and improvement” programme at the hospital.
See, I hate this kind of article. They are talking to hospital management, the unions, but they didn’t bother asking PWC what ‘transformation and improvement’ would entail. Absolutely useless.
We will never have a functioning health service.
That building looks like a giant Cards Against Humanity box.
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One of the many reasons we can’t have a properly functioning HSE
I used to consult public sector. You basically become a public servant and have to do their work for them. I have never in my life come across a more useless, lazy bunch of people than the staff found across the public sector in Ireland.
Constant yapping, absolutely no skillset beyond Microsoft Word if you were lucky, randomly disappearing for hours when you need to speak with them (“I was on a tea break”).
A lot of these “transformation” projects are glorified money sinks for private consulting corporations but it’s because the public employees have zero interest in engaging with them and therefore there’s never an actual handover. You would be sick to find out how many vital public services are ran entirely by a team of 25-30 year old consultants and not an actual government department employee(s).
Blaming the private corporation for doing what makes money and not the government and senior staff is so typical public sector mentality it’s basically comedy.
I was going to say unions will defend it but…when I opened the article it’s actually unions telling their members this.
Unions have a role to play but they’re so often anti efficiency.
Unions role should be protecting employees rights, not squeezing as much as possible out of their employer to its detriment.
I had the misfortune of working on a project in CUH.
After it , the company I worked for refused to ever deal with the HSE again.
It’s full of failed & utterly useless people.
This is why big corporations can convince a lot of people (in IT) that unions are bad and we shouldn’t have them.
I’m very pro union, but it has to be said that the public sector really has a bunch of dead weight who are literally only employed because they can’t be sacked / it’s not worth the hassel. It’s great in a sense to see unions defend their members so we’ll, but it’s also disheartening for the other that work with the dead weight and have to deal with them.
Especially in this case where I can only imagine they’re annoyed at the fact that they hired in consultants to most likely plug holes that their “senior” staff can’t fill.
In IT, the argument is that if you join a union, you’ll only really be protecting bad workers, and they point to the public sector as a prime example.
I’m also slightly biased as I’ve worked as a consultant for the HSE through my company before. It’s hell. The senior staff tend to be completely useless who literally don’t want anything to change because they “know how to do it the old way” it’s extremely frustrating especially in management meetings where I had to explain the issues I was having and they’d immediately jump back saying we were the problem/not doing our job / looking for more money……yeah we are looking for more money because your not fucking doing your job padraig.
>PWC consultants, hired to implement a “transformation and improvement” programme at the hospital.
See, I hate this kind of article. They are talking to hospital management, the unions, but they didn’t bother asking PWC what ‘transformation and improvement’ would entail. Absolutely useless.
We will never have a functioning health service.
That building looks like a giant Cards Against Humanity box.