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Bureaucracy in Italy is bad. Why? Public workers have zero incentive in making anything even slightly better. You are told to do one thing one way, and invest n
by thefz 4y ago
Bureaucracy in Italy is bad. Why? Public workers have zero incentive in making anything even slightly better. You are told to do one thing one way, and invest nothing in even understanding the thing, let alone making it better.
It is like this in the public, and in the semi-public as well. Once the wage comes in, interest dies.
For the same reason, firing a public employee who is under performing is almost impossible. We just move them around.
- drooopy 4y agoThis kind of bureaucracy and the mentality of public sector employees is more of a southern European phenomenon, not just Italian. I've spent most of my life living between Italy and Greece (being 50% both in heritage) and the past 7 years in Portugal, and it's all the same down here. It feels like the public sector is holding those states hostages in the 1970s. This is of course in stark contrast to the experience that I've had while I was living in the UK for a few years in the late 2010s.
- hsjqllzlfkf 4y agoInteresting that you mention Portugal here. I was born and raised there, and though not great, I don't remember it being as bad as the horror stories I'm reading about Italy from other comments.
- BarbaPeru 4y agoI do not know if it is the same in other countries, but in Italy public sector has been used for decades by bad politicians for paying political favors, "if you bring me votes of you family I'll manage to find a job to your son", the result is an oversized apparatus of people that do not like their work, work badly (if they work at all) and try to spent time in order to arrive to payslip day. In Italy the bureaucracy is become a monster that try to justify its existence creating other bureaucracy. At least half of italian bureaucracy workers are redundant. And I'm not a supporter of the private sector at all.