Comments on: Consultant To Help Evolve Human Resources

By: Coffee

Coffee — Sat, 10 May 2014 23:42:38 +0000

If it wasn’t for Eugene Blakney as head of the BPSU at the time the former UBP government you talk about would have continued to bring in nonunion consultants and given them the right to vote after three years and status after five . But we straightened that crap out . I tell you I know more about how government works then any inept guitar strummer ever will .

By: mangrove tree

mangrove tree — Sat, 10 May 2014 22:01:56 +0000

Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy in action.

By: Rockfish#2

Rockfish#2 — Sat, 10 May 2014 00:33:31 +0000

You will never find out unless the information is leaked.

By: Bermuda boy

Bermuda boy — Sat, 10 May 2014 00:11:32 +0000

@ steve Biko, the PLP / BIU are not in power anymore, no more friends and family!!!

By: JustAskin2

JustAskin2 — Fri, 09 May 2014 22:26:42 +0000

Sorry the correct word is not ‘diversified’ but ‘dispersed’. I remember going to one department for all things relating to human resources.

By: JustAskin2

JustAskin2 — Fri, 09 May 2014 22:25:03 +0000

Can you give a precise date? If I remember correctly, working as a civil servant for a few years under the UBP and then under the PLP, the department of human resources was never diversified.

By: Cinqo De Juno

Cinqo De Juno — Fri, 09 May 2014 21:27:23 +0000

Who? Not saying you are wrong but if you are going to make a statement like that, you obviously know lots of people and shouldn’t. Or did your info come from anonymous sources too.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 09 May 2014 20:28:41 +0000

Better, let’s see how much the consultant saves by chopping out the fat.

By: Steve Biko

Steve Biko — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:31:25 +0000

Friends and Family

By: Onion

Onion — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:17:47 +0000

They produced dozens of schedules that would have saved the country a fortune.

Each one was rejected by the Union.

By: CommonSensenBda

CommonSensenBda — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:15:21 +0000

Yeah, like folks at the PTB who were “qualified” to produce a schedule for bus driver ……. but more than EIGHT YEARS later, still no schedule.

By: swing voter

swing voter — Fri, 09 May 2014 18:48:15 +0000

Nooooooooooo….. lets just keep borrowing $$$$$$ until the IMF take over. who cares if the IMF controls are not in our best interest

By: Yah for Bermuda!!

Yah for Bermuda!! — Fri, 09 May 2014 18:43:27 +0000

First of all the HR Dept has less then 30 people… and they are not the ones responsible for sending out emails for courses they don’t facilitate…. Don’t be a *hit stirrer

By: Consultant

Consultant — Fri, 09 May 2014 18:28:20 +0000

Makes me laugh the way everyone jumps at the word “consultant’, yet no-one seems to care less that there is a HR Department which is useless, but has more than 30 staff getting paid good money to send out emails about Excel training courses.

How much is that costing Bermuda when compared against the cost of a consultant?

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Fri, 09 May 2014 18:00:45 +0000

Under the PLP perhaps

By: JustAskin2

JustAskin2 — Fri, 09 May 2014 17:32:20 +0000

“Currently, this critical element is dispersed across the Public Service…”

Not sure I understand. When once I worked for government (not too long ago) I remember a department of Human Resources; it was in one location and was the go-to for all things relating to human resources. Now HR is dispersed across the Public Service? When did this happen?

By: watching

watching — Fri, 09 May 2014 16:58:39 +0000

Let’s see how much this consultant will cost.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:28:57 +0000

So the minister should work in HR now????

By: bornb

bornb — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:39:33 +0000

Consultant for this Consultant for that!!! Why do we have politicians??? May as well get rid of them all and just hire Consultants!!! Is this one of the things the OBA hit hard on PLP for doing? Not to get into the PLP/OBA confusion but to me its the pot calling the kettle black. We vote ppl in position to handle our affairs and everytime you look they need advice or assistance from CONSULTANTS!!!!

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:19:54 +0000

…and here we go. How sadly predictable

By: Former Union Member

Former Union Member — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:15:38 +0000

Fine. We all know past hiring and recruiting in Government has been poorly executed, at best. BUT….was there a request for proposal for this role put out in the community? I agree that it is NOT a role we should be hiring someone from outside our Bermuda to fill. Was the Bermuda Human Resources Association asked for input? Let’s hope this was done in a transparent, and fair, manner.

By: Onion

Onion — Fri, 09 May 2014 14:09:01 +0000

Before people fly off the handle let’s remember why consultants are good.

Consultants let an organisation temporarily bring in a person with expertise to make a change or assist with a project.

This is very different from the old way of hiring “consultants” to create permanent non-unionised Civil Servant positions the way the former government idid.

By: nuffin but the truth

nuffin but the truth — Fri, 09 May 2014 13:48:47 +0000

“The Government plans to retain an independent consultant ….”

better NOT be another ex pat or person from the USA,there are Qualified Bermudians that can do this.