Yes-I've noticed that too. My reaction to others with the same penchant in the past is to ask for CONSTRUCTIVE ways to improve the situation. I cant recall having any replies that made any sense. It is not a perfect world and if you want the benifits that a modern society can give you, it must be allowed that paying for it is one of the rules. The government departments responsible for delivering service and collecting taxes will come under the old trueism 'you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time' Anything else is pie in the sky............
There are loads of constructive ways of improving the situation with the most effective being privatisation of the work involved. But that really isn't the issue. As we move from a society where people made things to a society where people either shuffle paper for private industry or work for the state shuffling paper, we lose touch with the realities of runniNg an organisation making things. it was one of the bigger changes in my working life moving froma series of jobs where all the people I dealt with we're other mainly university educated middle class professionals to having to manage large numbers of badly educated often unmotivated blue collar workers making widgets. it was an introduction to the real world or what had been the real world until we shut down much of our manufacturing. it was going from a world where people worked with you to achieve a result to a world where a proportion couldn't care at all and some deliberately obstructed and sabotaged.
This post will come up in google from now on. May I suggest that you edit your first post to include the outcome?
I can see why you would want to use the forum like this and it appears that the end result was what you were hoping for, so in all fairness to the company, placing the whole story on the first post would enable any pottential customer who sees the thread to find out the ending without having to wade through all the posts.
Its all about lowering expectations, you talk yourself into not expecting it to happen and the dire implications etc, then when they pull it out of the bag after giving you unacceptably high stress levels for a week or so, you are wildly happy and sing there praises, because now your very low expectations have been exceeded (nows the time for one of those funny faces that i wont use) I must remember that for my business... i dont think so
April 24, 2018
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