Getting a certificate is easy, a small inconvenience for an extra 12 weeks off a year.

Also, the OBA has pissed around for over two years – they should have acted immediately. Why do we still have no casino? What are they waiting for? Bermudian inaction is staggering.

Out here in the real world anythinmg more than 2 or 3 days off sick requires a Dr. certificate. Out here in the real world you are more than likely looking at 10 years service before 3 weeks paid vacation is granted.

CS sick day allowances & vacation time after so little time on the job is absurd & only serves to employ more people to cover those off.

Private businesses operate on staff levels that are needed to survive. They are not glorified social assistance that the CS has become filled with people who are unemployable anywhere else. Only Friday I ran into one of those. Somebody in a dealing with the public position totally clueless of the job.

“Are locals unable to have an opinion like that ?”
-Absolutely

“Are locals not allowed/unable to say unpleasant things about their own island ?”
-They do it all the time

Yes, no question many do abuse it and like anywhere else outside of Govt. Are you going to tell me that private employees do not try to abuse their sick leave as well? Only civil servants? Let’s be real. This has to be managed all around. Now are you telling me that there are private companies out there who routinely lay off their workers if they had an accident, broke their leg, etc and were out weeks at time? Just fire them like that? It sounds good to feed the nasty rhetoric, but I have worked in management in both public and private and in reality I know most employers would accommodate for their sick employees especially good employees who may be out weeks and weeks at at a time. So again, all of this hatred and false speculation towards civil servants using all their sick days needs to stop. There are many who never take a sick day all year. The false notion that every civil servant abuses their sick days, uses up all of their sick days and vacation days needs to stop. It’s not true.

How do i know these thing be cause i have been there.

Are you suggesting they fire from the top or the bottom or some where in between or right across the board.

There must be a justifiable reason.

Firing people because the business or the country needs to save money is wrong.

Every one is working at their level of incompetence, because no body is perfect we all make mistakes we all regret our poor decisions at one time or another, the problem arises when some body makes a mistake which they can not rectify.

Good evening.

Judge not for you shall be judged.

Dam if you do dam if you don’t!!

Not only that, but get rid of the expats and you lose a whole sector of the economy.

I’m an expat. If I leave, who is going to pay my landlord’s mortgage? What are the shopkeepers, restaurants etc going to do when a family of four leaves, and takes their expenditure with them? Shops close, restaurants close and so on and so on. You’ve already seen it when exempt companies began to move away, and now you want to make that worse? You NEED expats, pure and simple.

Why don’t the union bosses challenge the MP’s on both sides to take a 20% cut in pay, and reveal their salary and benefits to the public in the process.

Throwing stones and trying to break windows has never been a way to succeed in life.

Throwing stones and trying to break windows has never been a way to succeed in life.

Note the last 4 words: ‘dedication and hard work’. Now last I checked 100% of the MOFHQ staff are Bermudian. Yes these same people he claimed had dedication and worked hard are indeed civil servants who perform this same dedication of duties and hard work throughout the year. Year after year in fact. So tell me, according to the hatred about ‘lazy’ ‘good for nothing’ ‘incompetent’ ‘don’t know anything’ civil servants on these blogs is the Minister lying? Or are we now going to disingenuously select, deli style which civil servants are ‘worthy’ of praise and acknowledgement after his statement? Do hard working civil servants exist in only the Ministry of Finance I wonder? Maybe if other Ministers also publicly showed gratitude to their staff for hard work which is all too often taken for granted by the public, this can stop if not reduce all of this divisive hatred many have, especially OBA supporters, towards public servants working for their country. The Minister would not be able to produce his Budget Speech without the assistance of civil servants who I am 100% sure accomplished this working very long hours, not just 9 to 5. But this happens every year. Stop all of this hatred.

And for those that harbor that belief 14 years of PLP government proved them right .

while you seek the answer for that…..

I would like to know why all the hairdressers, nail techs, doctors, nurses, chefs, wait service, teachers, police officers and COMPLAINERS in Bermuda are not all Bermudian……

We have had generations to grow the ability.

When they start to make the cuts they will have to begin at the TOP….some of them are almost completely useless….

That in turn would reduce the million steps it takes to get something done AND

you won’t have any more reason to complain about over paid, underworked, lazy, government employees.

The fear of losing a job seems to be a great motivator in the private sector I don’t see why it shouldn’t work in the public sector……right?

Some of us are eternally, habitually convinced that we don’t have the wherewithal to run our own country properly.

Allow me to be the first to say that it is our privilege to have “some of the skillsets that don’t exist in Bermuda brought here by foreign workers”… even if it just to cook a really good burger.

Great thought–perhaps the public sector will begin to share some more of the burden—-the private sector hasn’t been protesting in the streets–the private sector has been trying to help figure out ways to generate business and revenue to assist the Government.

Would those in the public sector kindly and honestly talk about what they are doing to contribute versus demanding more!!!

The public sector is a cost center–think about it in relation to running an effective business–when the revenue prodcution side of a business slows–cost centers must be adjusted accordingly.

Thus, insted of trying to talk our way into belieivg this is not a shared issue for everyone in this country -let’s get to work and help this government dig us out of this hole before its too late!!!

Senior civil servants, who run day to day Government operations, are accountable to no one. They are all part of the same union & treat their budgets like some sort of financial playground making sure that they spend every last penny each year so that they can demand more the next year.

To fluff up their self importance they will hire as many as possible, needed or not.

If the Minister holds to his word freezing future CS employs & the way they are done some of these highly pay civil servants can be shown the door or demoted.