Posts by Che Tibby
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as i say craig, easy up before you godwin the thread good and proper.
i'm sitting in a room looking at a group of people. some of them worry they'll soon be out of work, at the cusp of a nascent depression. a little humour helps. sanctimony does not.
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easy up craig.one in 10 is called a decimation.
there are more than a few stressed individuals here on the inside.
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Will I be safe from the cull?
No.
they'll be hosing comms advisors out of your workplace in no time.
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but I don't think we can blame him for whatever happens in Wellington when you take off your socks
and none of you will ever know, because there will be no-one to communicate the outcome.
bring back the pony expresso
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you should have your own TV show
heh. i've recently tinkered with the idea of rewriting market forces for the noughties.
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goddamnit...
i just popped upstairs to see about getting something done and comms have barricaded themselves into the 5th floor... they're bombarding finance with copies of the hansard and yelling, "my freedom or my death!"
it's going to be an extremely long day...
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I don't doubt it
in fact... it might have been two political advisers assisting the guards i dodged this morning...
better take the town-belt to get home, after dark.
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an under-assistant for inter-departmental liasons
i think you'll find that "political advisers" held by minsters are actually *extremely* powerful gatekeepers in relation to their typical age and experience.
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Such people tend to get lumped into the calculation when the "army of government spin doctors" gets counted, and yet that's really not a valid characterisation is it?
my guess is that a lot of the "communications advisors" used to maintain the online-information provision side of the public service should be re-designated.
it's not like the imaginary days when a policy analyst could have a public statement signed off before distributing it to a journo (or not having it signed off..). you need horde of coders and developers to maintain the security of government websites for starters.
*then* there's the people managing the content.
most of the growth in 'comms advisers' is people providing what is in fact a front-line service. the internet.
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how does redundancy work for the Ministerial staff who are now to be replaced? Is it redundancy with an associated package
afaik they're contracted on the proviso they could be laid off at any time. reallocation of portfolios for example.
tenuous and high-flying existance that ministerial staffing.