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The author of this has clearly never worked in the UK civil service where promotion is not based on merit but according to arcane rules of how long you have wor
by junklight 17y ago
The author of this has clearly never worked in the UK civil service where promotion is not based on merit but according to arcane rules of how long you have worked there and what you "deserve".
What you end up is a slow lumbering mess. Unable to achieve much (except maintain the status quo - which in fairness seems to be the purpose of the civil service), the cost of doing anything tends to be immense and people spend more time worrying about whose fault it is going to be than making things happen.
- arethuza 17y agoThe civil service is a meritocracy - they just don't use sane metrics for what merit is.
- junklight 17y agoWell yes - one metric might be characterised as "how well you are able to work in the civil service". Something I have to say I was pitifully bad at
- plinkplonk 17y ago"The author of this has clearly never worked in the UK civil service where promotion is not based on merit but according to arcane rules of how long you have worked there and what you "deserve". What you end up is a slow lumbering mess. Unable to achieve much (except maintain the status quo - people spend more time worrying about whose fault it is going to be than making things happen." You just described the Indian Civil Service - which of course we inherited from the British and fucked up in our own unique ways.