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Liberals in Power by Chris Kenny react video
Shiraz
2023-12-21 12:28:21 +0000 UTCA video, or probably a series given their pervasiveness, on consultancy firms (Deloitte, KPMG, et al.) infecting the NSW public service by becoming 'employees'. Once these firms establish themselves in government, they continually work to ensure more consultants (either their own, or their mates because they all seem to recruit each other) are hired, often forcing public servants out. They destroy the public service who aren't beholden to a corporate master motivated only by two things: more contracts, and more money. Our public service is slowly dying because of these parasites. Frank and fearless advice, advice that is given to best serve our community regardless of how politically difficult or unpopular it may be, is dead because of these consultancy firms. That's not considering that they also sell the public service out, like KPMG had done by selling confidential tax policy to corporations with the aim of avoiding said tax policy, or by profiting from state government intellectual property for their own benefit. Some 'consultants' hired, at obscene daily rates ($1,500 a day minimum), epitomise incompetence. Their work is so poor that their it often needs to be fixed by overworked, underpaid public servants (who definitely aren't charged out at $1,500 a day...), work that should have made the public servant's work life much easier, why the consultant was hired in the first place... The only advice these consultants give, is the advice that ensures they'll win another contract. The only work these consultants complete, is work that ensures that the organisation that hired them becomes dependent on them, especially exploiting decision-makers that do not understand technology. Examples include creating incredibly complex technical systems only the consultants understand, ensure these systems are not sufficiently documented so others can understand how they work, despite contractual obligations requiring adequate documentation, lock public servants out of their own systems for 'reasons', and often develop systems so poor they break often ensuring they can charge additional hours to 'fix' them or make expensive change requests where functions requested were 'out of scope' in the first phases.
Madeleine
2023-12-16 13:27:06 +0000 UTCYou gotta do a video on 'christmas party horror stories', sitting on an untapped gold mine of hilarious vomit-filled stories from end of year work functions, 'tis the season and all!
Ben
2023-12-04 05:52:31 +0000 UTC
