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Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious. Its no wonder when you have to interact with politicians on a day to
by mothsonasloth 6y ago
Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious.
Its no wonder when you have to interact with politicians on a day to day basis that the cultures should mirror each other.
I would much prefer Microsoft Civil Servant sp4 or an IBM Civil Servant AI powered by Big Blue.
- BusTrainBus 6y ago“Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious.” Depressing to see such low-quality nonsense on HackerNews.
- mothsonasloth 6y agoLikewise with your comment mate https://www.clivebates.com/documents/lazycivilservant.pdf https://www.clivebates.com/documents/lazycivilservant.pdf
- CraigJPerry 6y agoI’m not sure that an amusing leaflet, ostensibly about civil servants but equally humorous to anyone in a large private enterprise, refutes the parent’s point.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agothere are several brilliant documentaries[⁰][¹] about the inner political circles in Britain which make exactly the point GP is alluding to: [⁰] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It [¹] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
- mhh__ 6y agoCivil servants are not "known" for anything. The civil service is a lumbering giant but you can't characterise it in such terms. You can try but you'd need to drive to a castle to get your eyes tested first
- bzb5 6y agoCivil servants are renowned for those things in every country.