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Doug Stephens's avatar

No wonder these leeches that thrive only because of taxpayers, are fighting so hard to continue to "work" from home. Imagine what goes on there that we pay for.

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Ms Smith's avatar

Your tax dollars at work. What shameful attitudes that they think they can waste time while on the clock racking up pensions and all kinds of benefits. Fire the lot of them.

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Alberta Laker Lady 333's avatar

It probably started in 2020 when they started working from home so now you’re looking at 4 to 5 years of screwing the pooch. Shocker.

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Kirk Farquhar's avatar

Back in 2003-2204 I was doing internet activity audits for customers including many CDN federal, provincial government departments and several CDN cities. On average I would find about 10% of most of the government staff at all 3 levels would be surfing non-business related sites for the entire work day. The audit software I used tracked IP addresses and assumed you were only active if there were mouse clicks or data flow every 15 seconds. When I reported this to senior management, the constant response was that they couldn't do anything about it as firing or discipling civil servants wasn't 'worth' the effort or just down-right impossible.

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Untitled's avatar

Past time to dump the whole federal communist regime from the hoc and hos on down to the janitors. Then implode to buildings. Every bit of it is nothing but a taxpayer money incinerator.

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June's avatar

I know for a fact that there can be minimal work done and in reality, very little work there for an employee to do. The work load is low but if the computer is left open (work from home) you can wander off and attend to household chores. I know people who are disgusted and somewhat ashamed of themselves for this “charade” of “working” but it is a government job…they get paid and what else is out there for employment these days.

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George Lozovoi's avatar

I work in IT and know for sure that it is possible and actually technically easy to monitor an employee internet activity even when he/she works from home. But if we demand that, unions will outcry about "rights".

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glenn estell's avatar

2 trillion in unfunded liabilities

why are there any public service pensions still being given out?

a million in cash at 60 can't touch the benefits of a government pension and

they can retire at 50

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Priscilla Schwartz's avatar

At least 1/3 of all government employees could be let go without any damage to their effectiveness in delivering services.

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George Lozovoi's avatar

Why am I not surprised?

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