Council tax to rise 6% in Cardiff

[JamesWales]

It’s almost as if there are never any inefficient private sector companies or organisations in some people’s political vacuum. And this notion that more money isn’t the answer is such a red herring when in fact ‘less money’ due to austerity was supposed to be good housekeeping.

The difference is the checks and balances in the private sector relating to profit.

I am a big defender of the public sector. Have proudly spent most of my career working in it, but current working practices are not in the interests of service delivery. They are undermining service delivery, so criticising it is helping the public sector IMO.

[Eric Cartman]

The difference is the checks and balances in the private sector relating to profit.

I am a big defender of the public sector. Have proudly spent most of my career working in it, but current working practices are not in the interests of service delivery. They are undermining service delivery, so criticising it is helping the public sector IMO.

Our council has just been forced to abandon it's main site due to finances and move every member of staff into an open plan call centre style office space that is built to take maybe 30% of the work force, I don't think this is an isolated case at all. Unfortunately resources/money influences working practice quite significantly.

Having worked here a long time, I don't need to be coddled to be effective at work and would struggle to work in a overbright open plan office so I steer clear unless we are meeting as a team.

It's not just a few broad cultures, because of the freedom/lack of control over management, your experience of working in the local authority almost entirely depends on how effective/engaged your line manager is. Anyone working any length of time in an LA will have encountered people who basically don't do anything (or even offer any useful coherent ideas) and also people who are kept away from anything important because they are useless. That has always been the case whether in the office 5 days a week or working from home full time during COVID.

[pipster]

What LA do you work for, I used to work for Cardiff Council a long time ago, more dead wood there than a timber yard.
Cardiff Council has plans to make nearly all of it’s work force remote

[Eric the Half a Bee]

The difference is the checks and balances in the private sector relating to profit.

It's an interesting point.

Imagine councils had to deliver a profit for shareholders every year. Do you think our council services would

a) Improve
b) Stay the same
c) Get worse

[Heathblue]

It's an interesting point.

Imagine councils had to deliver a profit for shareholders every year. Do you think our council services would

a) Improve
b) Stay the same
c) Get worse

I've only ever worked in a private sector Job, lots of waste and the spunking of money hand over fist on vanity projects and for the bosses that I've worked for who were elevated far beyond their ability, I've also worked for some excellent gaffers, when i started my apprenticeship in 1978 an old boy who i became friendly with introduced me to the phrase, "penny wise pound foolish" and that's how I would describe the private sector now as it was back then.