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Originally Posted by 68style

Secretaries in the government are generally at the CR-04 level and make $45k a year, not $70k, and there are very few of them because secretaries are generally not required except at the highest executive levels. Some of them are AS-01's or AS-02's if they are the secretary for a minister, but regardless that tops out at $54k... not the huge exaggeration you are listing. And they all do shitty mediocre work because they work at the government? Really? Do you think gay people spread aids and black people are all criminals too? Yah sure some people fuck the dog, but you're telling me nobody does that at a private company? I know wayyyyy more people doing that in private sector who go for hours long luncheons and expense claim everything they do back to the company than is even possible in the government where you never get any Christmas parties or anything whatsoever paid for since it's all public money. You're so misinformed it's not even funny.

Why are you picking on people trying to get by on regular salaries anyway? The real damage/injustice is done in corporations and private firms where pay is all relative to ranking, not how much work you do and certainly not for an HONEST days work. If you think the government is such a great freeloader's gig, nobody is stopping you from going to jobs.gc.ca and applying for one of these so-called goldmine jobs and you can experience it yourself instead of talking out of your ass.

I'm not going to respond to everything because I don't really have the time, my post was a bit of an exaggeration, but take it easy dude, why are you going homosexual and racist on me?

The secretary thing was just me throwing out an example. I'm more so concerned about execs at corporations like BC ferries, and ICBC taking trips on our dime, or MLAs expensing everything under the sun like you seem to think every private sector employee does. Neither system is perfect, but when my tax dollars go directly towards paying for the salary of every public sector employee I have every right to ask for justification on what they are paid. Again the better way to do this is to pay people based on performance. If you work hard, there is nothing to say you won't make the same salary, or perhaps even more.

Spoiler!

And although it's none of your business: The reason I don't apply for one of these "goldmine" jobs, is because I can make a shit ton more in the private sector, since I work 80+ hours a week, and I kill at the job I do.

So why would I want to move into the public sector where I will just get lumped in with all the other people making the same wage, as the idiot who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the wall?

EDIT: Oh and final point, no, nobody at any of the three companies I currently am engaged with fucks the dog. You either pull your weight, or you're cut. PERIOD. I'm in business to make money, and my thought is I will pay my people the absolute most, but in return they must be and do their absolute best.

And yes I fire the lowest 10% every year. It's heartless but fair, and nobody complains, because you are being paid multiples more than if you were at any other company.