Re: The Decline Of Moral Within The Rail Systems

["f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>]

Yes how true bf
There are many many examples of that!
The SRA was a classic at it.
You only have to look at some of the rocket scientists we had the AH`s both
of them etc etc.
"BEE EFF" <mcreely@pnc.com.au> wrote in message
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> Only one problem John, obviously you would have heard of people being
promoted
> to their level of incompetence, ie: promoted to get them out of the road
>
> John Kerley wrote:
>
> > Mal Bigg <parkdrive@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> > 94ak5i$dr2$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:94ak5i$dr2$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > State Rail, like many other government utilities is only now paying
the
> > > price for adopting the promotion by merit system.
> >
> > The trouble is "merit" is a very subjective concept and does not equate
with
> > being competent.  In reality "merit" is usually interpreted as being a
> > silver tongue, or a brown tongue or having the right handshake or
knowing
> > the right people.  It very rarely means being competent although
> > occasionally people promoted on "merit" do coincidently turn out to be
also
> > competent.
> >
> > Indeed the old public service ethic of promotion by seniority after you
had
> > qualified by an objective test of competence such as an exam together
with a
> > certain number of years of experience meant that the corruption endemic
in
> > today's "merit" system was avoided.  In other words the public was
served
> > well.
> >
> > Another element in the modern corrupt way of appointing people to higher
> > paid positions is the notion of limited tenure.  No only does one have
to
> > silver tongue, brown nose etc. your way to promotion, but to keep the
job
> > your have to keep your nose brown. i.e. once again it is not competence
that
> > is the determining factor.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John Kerley
>