Jose Scott3 said:Let me expand that to six sentences:
I work at a state research institute doing stuff that’s actually useful. I’m not a cop, I’m not an EMT, and I’m definitely not some clerk behind a desk, counting stamps, making coffee, or showing up to a local town hall once a month. I didn't land this gig through the Party or because some cousin pulled strings.
So why should I be stuck with minimum wage or lose my job just because "Jack Cook7" thinks so? This guy is generalizing, and honestly, labeling everyone in public service as a corrupt crony is straight-up psychopathic...
Like I said, if we actually wanted to trim the budget without slashing salaries or firing people—and we're talking about salaries around the average in America—we’d start with the politicians and the big shots. They're the real crooks. That would save a fortune on its own...
Look, the whole thing regarding those of you working in government service is actually pretty straightforward...
The thing is, most of you don't actually get it—and the people working in the private sector, where I'm stuck myself, understand it even less.
It’s honestly hilarious watching you guys grovel toward the private sector. Most of them are stuck in the exact same mess as you—if not a hell of a lot deeper in it—even without all this extra nonsense.
Look, most of us over in the private sector don't get it. We don't see you individuals as the actual problem. Instead, we just sit here whining about how insanely expensive you are, how everyone's just a bureaucrat, how nobody actually does anything, blah, blah, blah...
Actually, in most cases, it’s the exact opposite. It’s a damn shame, really, but the truth is you guys are mostly underpaid and working way too hard—mostly because you’re constantly fighting fires in total chaos instead of actually following an organized system.
The real problem is your completely irresponsible employer—or honestly, just the entire organization they belong to.
Look, let’s be real—number one is pretty obvious: you guys are working with tiny paychecks. That part is absolutely indisputable.
What are we even talking about? It’s ridiculous. We've got an American Secretary of Commerce making less than some guy driving a skid steer on a construction site in Germany, yet the cost of living here is basically the same.
Honestly, you're just screwing over the entire country when you underpay the judiciary, the schools, healthcare, and all those essential services. It’s ridiculous. You've got people in critical roles wondering if they can actually afford lunch today or if they'll even be able to cover the utility bills. How is that supposed to work?
That’s exactly where the corruption creeps in. When you've got someone drowning in problems like this who also has their hands on public funds—or someone's offering them a kickback—it isn't a matter of "if" they'll take it. It's just a matter of when.
On the other hand, you’ve got this guy running a private gig—he's sitting on a massive payroll with zero actual work coming in. He’s broke, everything is a total mess, and he'll be begging for scraps sooner or later.
Look, let’s be real—the government is the biggest buyer on the block. That's where all the work is, and honestly, that's where the money is. So of course this guy is going to come out there peddling the exact same stuff...
The only real question left is who’s going to blink first—is he going to start making offers, or is he just going to sit there demanding?
Most people are decent enough, but let’s be real—when a golden opportunity for some bullshit presents itself, they jump on it. Then, once they realize they actually got away with it, they play the victim. It's pathetic.
I’m honestly worried we’re about to see an absolute explosion of this nonsense. Once things go totally sideways and everyone starts picking sides, even the people who never would've dreamed of doing this might actually cave in.
Problem number two: there’s this massive paradox where, in most sectors, your salaries are simultaneously way too high and yet somehow still nowhere near high enough!
How is that even possible? How can both things be happening at the exact same time?
Look, the reason those salaries are so bloated is simple: there are just way too many people in the system. We’ve got a massive crowd of employees clogging up everything, most of them working positions that serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever. It's pure nonsense.
It's not like they're all just sitting around being useless bureaucrats. A huge chunk of them actually work their asses off, pulling 12-hour shifts and getting stuff done.
The real issue here is that none of this makes any damn sense. There’s zero logic behind what they're doing, and the way they've organized the whole mess is enough to make your head explode.
Just think about how insane it is that we’re dealing with situations like this. Take my town, for example—it's so ridiculously tiny it barely makes sense,
let alone the fact that we went from being one single municipality to becoming a city plus three whole new ones, all while having way fewer residents and businesses than before.
In this town, we used to have one basic public works department responsible for building and maintaining the gas, water, and sewer lines, handling trash, and keeping the streets clean.
Now, suddenly, we’ve been split into six different companies, which means six directors, six secretaries, six accounting departments, six billing offices, six meter readers, and blah blah blah...
It's not like these people aren't working—that's not true—but the damn truth is that their jobs make zero sense. Everyone is essentially doing the exact same thing. Honestly, any one of them could handle the workload for all six of them if they just had a little more time.
For every actual worker, you’ve got five others sitting in cloned positions, and that is a massive problem because someone has to foot the bill.
And then there's the issue of everyone having tiny salaries, mostly because that single pool of money is being sliced six ways.
Imagine how much better this would function if they all had triple the salary and just a slightly heavier workload; the city budget would actually save 50% on payroll...
Because realistically, whether you're processing payroll for ten people or sixty, the job is the same. It’s pure stupidity that now one guy comes to read the gas meter, another reads the water... one carries the gas bill, another carries the water bill, another handles the trash...
That's the core of the problem. It’s the same deal with the local municipalities, which at best have three or four times more staff than before, facing the same or even worse issues at every level.
It’s the same absolute nonsense with the schools. In this former municipality alone, we now have seven schools, which means seven different accounting departments and seven different payroll offices.
And then, of course, they can't even order damn toilet paper or hand soap, because they'll use every cent they have just to cover the payroll, and there's simply no money left for TP.
So we end up with this crazy paradox where teachers have low wages, yet education is insanely expensive because we have a massive surplus of administrative staff and a shortage of actual teachers.
It’s the same, if not way worse, modus operandi in healthcare and so on.
And I haven't even touched on all the other garbage, like agencies designed to oversee other useless agencies...
Look at this total idiocy with the movement restrictions right now...
We’re all going to be losing our minds at the government employees who have to issue these stupid permits for blah blah...
And those poor people are going to lose it under the sheer volume of requests, having no clue if they're allowed to issue them, how to do it, who gets them, or why. On top of that, they'll be stuck facing the pressure, the swearing, and getting yelled at, not to mention the risk of infection.
Police officers will probably catch the virus just checking every car on the road, and the officials issuing the certificates will too...
And all of this for what?
What kind of twisted logic makes it a problem when someone sits in their car driving from point A to point B, but it's perfectly fine to cram a huge crowd of people into a line just to get a permit? 🤦
Honestly, it would be easier, faster, and cheaper right now to just hastily open some shitty LLC for $3.25, issue yourself a permit, and not give a damn.
Then later, just don't pay your taxes and file for bankruptcy—hey, it was the pandemic, right?
But instead, we have to go out and beg for a permit just so we can visit elderly folks and bring them something to eat...