Comments on: Conflict of Interest http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2006/08/30/conflict-of-interest/ advocacy for the job seeker Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Day 2: My Blogging Secrets http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2006/08/30/conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-243409 JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Day 2: My Blogging Secrets Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:08:08 +0000 http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/?p=55#comment-243409 [...] In a different post I slammed the state of California (without naming them, but I said “It rhymes with Malimornia”). [...] [...] In a different post I slammed the state of California (without naming them, but I said “It rhymes with Malimornia”). [...]

]]> By: Niobe http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2006/08/30/conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Niobe Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:31:38 +0000 http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/?p=55#comment-54 Trust me as a Federal Government worker......it's not all it's cracked up to be. Yeah, I have a job. However, I DON'T make enough to live on my own without my husband's income after more than 10 years of government service. I recently was confronted with the possibility of having to leave my husband but realized there was NO WAY I could do it on my current salary. Yes, I've tried applying for other positions but the system that has been in effect for many years holds you back and forces an exclusion of the lower pay grades from better opportunities. How does someone with a Master's degree and more than 10 years of service in the same agency make $37,000 gross per year? Work for the government. Just like anywhere else, who you know is a HUGE part of how far you will go. Trust me as a Federal Government worker……it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Yeah, I have a job. However, I DON’T make enough to live on my own without my husband’s income after more than 10 years of government service. I recently was confronted with the possibility of having to leave my husband but realized there was NO WAY I could do it on my current salary. Yes, I’ve tried applying for other positions but the system that has been in effect for many years holds you back and forces an exclusion of the lower pay grades from better opportunities. How does someone with a Master’s degree and more than 10 years of service in the same agency make $37,000 gross per year? Work for the government. Just like anywhere else, who you know is a HUGE part of how far you will go.

]]> By: Robert Merrill http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2006/08/30/conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Robert Merrill Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:35:35 +0000 http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/?p=55#comment-52 One huge problem here is that the government has to spend their resources and time and money and energy making sure that, operationally, they don't appear favoritist. They need to be public, accessible, open to everyone, and everything. Therefore, they need to be closed-minded, plain, blah, bland and basically powerless to innovate or do anything similar to creativity. This is hard, because I know great people in government trying to do great things in government. But when it comes to JOBS in government, especially when unemployment is involved, you might as well start pouring the concrete for your boots right now--you won't get anywhere... fast. These social programs are important, even critical to our overall society. But that doesn't mean they are the best, most-productive or creative means to any end whatsoever. August is my "government month" because, for some reason, all my credentials and vehicle registrations, etc, expire in August. Even this morning, I was in line with my fellow Americans, renewing my right to drive one of my cars. I meet good people in government work. They do hard things that keep this whole system we created running as well as it can. They have families and futures. I wish them the very best possible. But I know it's hard, in government, to be innovative, creative, and truly open to meeting people at all levels without "dumbing down" (as you said) to the simplicity of the all-access-equals-no-access policies so common. *sigh* the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand" rel="nofollow">invisible hand</a> wins, once again. One huge problem here is that the government has to spend their resources and time and money and energy making sure that, operationally, they don’t appear favoritist.

They need to be public, accessible, open to everyone, and everything. Therefore, they need to be closed-minded, plain, blah, bland and basically powerless to innovate or do anything similar to creativity.

This is hard, because I know great people in government trying to do great things in government.

But when it comes to JOBS in government, especially when unemployment is involved, you might as well start pouring the concrete for your boots right now–you won’t get anywhere… fast.

These social programs are important, even critical to our overall society.

But that doesn’t mean they are the best, most-productive or creative means to any end whatsoever.

August is my “government month” because, for some reason, all my credentials and vehicle registrations, etc, expire in August. Even this morning, I was in line with my fellow Americans, renewing my right to drive one of my cars.

I meet good people in government work. They do hard things that keep this whole system we created running as well as it can. They have families and futures. I wish them the very best possible.

But I know it’s hard, in government, to be innovative, creative, and truly open to meeting people at all levels without “dumbing down” (as you said) to the simplicity of the all-access-equals-no-access policies so common.

*sigh* the invisible hand wins, once again.

]]> By: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings? http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2006/08/30/conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-50 JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings? Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:18:43 +0000 http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/?p=55#comment-50 [...] I hope I don’t hurt anyone’s feelings with this post. But I gotta get it off my chest. Following up from yesterday’s post about the conflict of interest of the state of “malimornia” (that is - we are here to help you but we won’t give you all the tools you need, and should have access to, because we might be helping other people while we help you (um, have you ever heard of “win-win”?)… [...] [...] I hope I don’t hurt anyone’s feelings with this post. But I gotta get it off my chest. Following up from yesterday’s post about the conflict of interest of the state of “malimornia” (that is – we are here to help you but we won’t give you all the tools you need, and should have access to, because we might be helping other people while we help you (um, have you ever heard of “win-win”?)… [...]

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