Is there a more ‘special’ breed on Earth than public servants? These lazy grifters demand more and more money every year, for doing less and less work. Where private sector workers have dramatically raised productivity in the past decade, public sector ‘workers’ productivity has plummeted. It’s plunged particularly dramatically since the lazy bastards demanded an unfettered ‘right’ to ‘work’ from home.
The opposition, like Australian taxpayers, has had enough.
Peter Dutton has declared war on working from home, vowing to force 365,000 public servants back to the office if the coalition wins government.
What do we even need 365,000 public servants, for a population of just 27 million? And why are we letting so many of them skive off at home, at the same time as most everyday Aussies have no choice but to actually go to work?
The proportion of Commonwealth employees logging on remotely has surged since the pandemic, thanks to an overly generous deal struck by the union two years ago.
Last year, 61 per cent of public servants worked from home, which has leapt from 55 per cent during the pandemic and is miles away from the 22 per cent of staff on remote arrangements in 2019.
That’s twice the number of all Australians working from home, at 36 per cent. Note, though, that ‘all Australians’ includes both public and private sector. Take away the more than half of public servants sitting on their clackers watching MAFS at home and it’s clear that the taxpayer-funded are having a lend of the taxpayers.
At the same time, the proportion of private sector workers working from home is declining – but more and more public servants are skipping off home.
One federal employee was allowed to work from home full-time but in reality was frequently uncontactable because they were travelling across the country in a caravan with their family, [opposition’s finance and public service spokeswoman Jane Hume] claimed.
“We know some departments and agencies are telling stakeholders not to schedule meetings on Mondays or Fridays as there will likely be no one in the office,” Ms Hume said.
“In one instance, a stakeholder travelled to Canberra only to be shown into a meeting room where they were greeted by all departmental participants dialling in from home.”
The opposition is putting the foot down. Naturally, Labor, who rely on left-leaning public servants to vote for them (which is why they invariably bloat the public sector when they’re in office), are squealing.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says public servants are refusing to attend the office, insisting a coalition plan to end work-from-home arrangements for federal government employees won’t discriminate against women.
Labor claimed on Tuesday that the coalition’s plan to force public servants to work from the office five days per week was an anti-family policy. Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said the plan represented a “step in the wrong direction for working women”.
What, by making them actually work? As Dutton points out, ‘It doesn’t discriminate against people on the basis of gender. It is for public servants.’ What Gallagher is tacitly conceding is that women on the taxpayer dime are scamming.
Which shouldn’t surprise anyone. As a UK study found, women and public servants were three times more likely than anyone else to develop ‘long Covid’. A ‘disease’ with, just coincidentally, no objectively measurable symptoms.
These lazy shits are taking the mickey – and we’re paying for it.
