exactly, you want to get promoted?
Then man up and don't think about your work, but what you can do to make things better, more efficient etc.

*shakes head*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:00, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

That's not how you get promoted in the public sector.
You can't just get a new position because you work hard in your previous one, it has to go through an open application process.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:02, Reply)

brilliant, so there is no incentive to work hard at all?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:03, Reply)

Honour.
Also fuck you, I prepared monthly and quarterly reports for the DfH and commisioners on a £6million contract before lunch today.
I'm shit hot, public sector or not.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:06, Reply)

I'm just trying to help
But it seems the system is designed to reward mediocrity, you want to move to Greece
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:07, Reply)

Have you heard about that other job yet?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:07, Reply)

Yep, not even shortlisted,
I think I will laugh heartily when the guys get pulled up by the commons accounts committee for mismanaging it in 18-36 months
(PsychoChomp, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:09, Reply)

Was it a 'jobs for the boys' do then?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:10, Reply)

dunno not got any feedback yet.
They didn't even call my references, I think it was because my job title says analyst rather than manager they chucked my application.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:14, Reply)

That sounds pants.
I haven't even had a 'fuck off' letter for the last four or five jobs I applied for. My conclusion is that employers are shit.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:15, Reply)

I don't think they send those out to anyone anymore.
All I've ever had is the occasional "sorry, you sucked, fuck off" email from a recruiter.
( Kroney, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:21, Reply)

I remember how you used to be able to tell by the thickness of teh envelope
whether or not it was good news.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:22, Reply)

I don't. I'm old, not antediluvian

( Kroney, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:27, Reply)

*cries*

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Nov 2011, 17:30, Reply)