Re: Privatisation of Australia's railways

["Goldie" <goldicom@powerup.com.au>]

Government services used to be competent, professional and economically
viable - when employess had career paths and before political correctness.

Security of employment was generally better than private enterprise - but a
person could be fired if they stuffed up real bad!

Then security of employment became enshrined, it is now almost impossible to
get rid of dead wood - and the comptent employees and managers don't hang
around - too frustrating and if you are the only one doing something you are
the only one making mistakes - get the drift?

Now with sideways promotions, narrow corporitised departments, and imported
managers with every Govt change destroying any semblance of an internal
career path is discouraging to any competent emloyee.

Unfortunately many private companies are now going the same way - plus they
have no job security.  At least they usually cull the dead wood (but often
miss the con men).

Experience these days also counts for little - a young Uni graduate is
almost always preferred to and older experienced person.

Privatisation is no gaurantee to success, just a very trim operation driven
by the god dollar with little respect for any person that doesn't represent
the most profit (ie - in any given situation making a profit isn't enough if
the person/equipment can be used someplace else to make more profit).

Goldie

Who fortunately now is living off many years savings via superannuation -
they can all get stuffed (and those that matter know it)!



"Dennis Maddock" <drjmaddock@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> To all,
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> I am not very impressed that the State and Federal Governments are all for
> privatisation of the majority of  our rail assets. Looking at recent media
> articles, the government seems to only look at short term profit and not
> long term losses of revenue. What does everyone else think about this
issue
> ? Can it be stopped ? It would certainly be hard to stop multinationals or
> influence their behaviour !
>
> Yours
>
> Dennis Maddock
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