Book about American Civil Servants

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Oliver Callan had a interview this morning with a co-author of a book about various American civil servants and the work that they do.

Did anyone catch the name of the book and the Author/editor?
 
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The untold story of public service by Michael Lewis. It's out next week.

I wonder will he talk about the likes of me. Administration in the HSE. We input overtime for few hundred doctors and nurses every week.
 
becky said:
We input overtime for few hundred doctors and nurses every week.
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Do they not have a swipe card ? This is the type of job Doge is getting rid of. I got rid of it in a large company around 2001. Werkly payroll processing went from 4 days to 4 hours. And we were only catching up on what other companies were already doing.
 
PPARS, a brief refresher

In case anyone had forgotten, it was not just the OPW's bike shed and their biteen of a wall that were mad, PPARS eventually wasted in the order of €220m, based on an original budget of €9m, that's a budget over-run of 2,344.44%, but I can't remember if anyone got fired. And the much improved replacement still has practices like those described above. Did I mention the Children's Hospital?

DOGE please, ASAP.
 
mathepac said:
PPARS, a brief refresher

In case anyone had forgotten, it was not just the OPW's bike shed and their biteen of a wall that were mad, PPARS eventually wasted in the order of €220m, based on an original budget of €9m, that's a budget over-run of 2,344.44%, but I can't remember if anyone got fired. And the much improved replacement still has practices like those described above. Did I mention the Children's Hospital?

DOGE please, ASAP.
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There's certainly scope to restructure the Public Sector, and most large organisations both public and private, but not by someone like Musk and certainly not in the way he does it.

That said areas such as healthcare are extremely inefficient and the people who work in the sector are primarily responsible for that waste. If they aren't willing or competent enough to fix their own house then a fix should be imposed upon them from the outside. In that I agree with Trump and Musk.
 
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