Chill is alive but injured

Winston, Your resignation will be a sad loss to MCAT, & to Medicare customers - sure not to Medicare. Your bosses (and mine) probably will pop a champagne as soon as you leave the mob. Medicare is so saturated by selfish bosses that mediocrity is a darling and a heavenly bliss for the clotters, but anything that is of excellence, that is does not fit their narrow perspective is despised. Winston, you are one of those who has an intelligent mind and pleasant personality, yet unafraid of the mobsters. Even if you do leave the clot, please stay with MCAT; you are one of the few bright stars in within the dungeons of Medicare. We need you Winston.

Now about Chill... He is around, however, he is fighting the beast. He's been suspended on a suspicion of breaching some section of APS code of conduct. I'm not privy to all the details, but, the rumours going around that he's been bullied by the clotters because of putting MCAT online. I suspect that they are trying to get rid of Chill or at least intimidate him because of MCAT. The clot can do nothing about MCAT so they have fabricated a suspicion apparently something to do with putting MCAT on the Net. We've been told that Chill is on annual leave. That a f'n lie. It's so surreal, that we all know Chill but neither he not the clot know us. That's safe for us, but Chill is under harassment from the brain clotters and we should take our hats off for Chill's effort and courage.

I hope one day I'll find out who you are.
Miawww ;)

A Last Post, A Last Hoorah

I can report to you that I will no longer be contributing to the life of Medicare Australia, as I intend to resign forthwith, when the time is right.

Since there is no knowledge of the whereabouts of Chill, and I can only assume that he is being crucified even now, I intend to take my valuable knowledge and experience elsewhere. It will be for my gain.

I also intend to end my career of my own accord, and not have it ended for me, as I have seen happen to so many others, and over so very little.

There are none so blind as those who will not see, and my pearls of wisdom are wasted on the unwise and the uncaring.

With great sadness I bid you all goodbye.

Yours truly,

Winston

The State of the Public Service

Today while I was at my desk, a most extraordinarily stupid question was asked of me, so stupid that I could barely splutter out an indignant reply before retreating into a sullen and brooding silence that lasted until the end of the day. This question, as is the nature of small things, illustrates a much larger truth, and that is, that the state of the Public Service is not good. I wish that I could tell you what this question was, but in so doing I could potentially give away my identity and betray the person who asked it, however I can tell you that it was the kind of thing that I would forgive a small child for, or someone in their first month of employment, but to hear this question from the lips of someone who has been in the job for over ten years was most unforgiveable. I can hardly imagine how if feels to be so lacking in confidence, so indecisive, and so afraid of making a mistake that one must embarrass oneself amongst ones colleagues in this way.

In these PC days there is very little that I can do or say to rouse this person out of their state, to encourage independence, clarity of thought, self-sufficiency and self-control; on the contrary, my servile role as "Team Member" requires that I endlessly support the most nonsensical chatterings and answer the most inconceivably stupid questions as if this were even possible for someone of my temperament. Yet another example of the disempowerment that Management desire for each and every one of us.

However, my main point is simply this: the state of the Public Service is quite clear. It is full of some of the most stupid people that I have ever met. Canberra, you may add that to your survey.

Where is Chill?

Where's Chill? He's been quiet for some time. I know he's been harassed by Medicare, but don't know the details. Chill is the only one here who's known to the Medicare wolves. Have they torn Chill apart?

Chill if you read this message, please let me or us know what's the story. Man, we are with you in this. You've stuck your neck out for the workers at the time when Medicare's bosses talk to us only when they bark at us. Don't let us down man, we need you.

Medicare Is Changing

This week it has come to my attention that the Narooma Branch has closed and a few desks at Centrelink take its place. This was publicised by the CPSU, who hope to pressure Management into releasing specific information about their plans for change. I sincerely hope that the CPSU will be successful in these attempts, however I am sorry to say that I doubt they will be. Management seem to feel no moral obligation to duly inform their staff of important changes, that is until they are actually happening, and then they can do nothing about it, which is I suppose their intention in witholding this information in the first place. The balance of power is so unfairly weighted in their direction that it seems that we can do little but sit by and wait to be told that which we do not wish to hear. However, as that most inspiring character Headmaster Albus Dumbledore says to us in the Harry Potter series, "And yet, happiness is possible, even in the darkest of times". So let us go on seeking to find that strength within ourselves that allows us to stand against all that is most unfair and wrong in this world and in our work. Until next time.

Yours truly,

Winston

Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson & Winston Churchill are all alive

Elvis, Michael Jackson and now Winston Churchill is alive for sure. Spoken with such a dignity but spoke the truth. Something, that is not fasionable on our floor. I agree with Winston completely. I also see how the supervisors and the coaches are trying to hammar us into a malleable mass, so they can mould and shape us into something like this: Paris and Perez Hilton (<--click)

The definition of malleable

Observations From My Desk

Firstly, I would like to thank you for creating this discussion forum, which I hope will assist in maintaining the freedoms that a civilised society should expect to enjoy.
This week I have observed only the most minor incursions. Individuals continue to approach TPAs directly, and I expect to receive a general email about this soon even though I do not engage in this practice myself. I have come to expect this blanket approach, because it's simply easier than dealing with individuals as separate personalities. While I can see a certain diplomacy in Management's approach, I feel offended that I am tarred with the same brush. A minor point, but still telling. I would like to see more directness and accountability. I would like to see staff members being dealt with as individuals, and not as part of an amorphous mass, where the correct behaviours are indistinguishable from the incorrect, and where we are all expected to shoulder the blame equally. I for one object.
Sincerely,
Winston