It seems the higher up the worse they are. The only people happy are the one that are causing all the grief. I am praying that the Thodey report will sort out a few things but not hopeful. So I suspect there are connection between the odd incentives in this town (Yes, yes,I know you see this stuff elsewhere, but not so much per square meter of office space) and mental illness. These human wrecking balls damage others around them, so you have contagion. Even if it means wrecking what others are doing. If power and status is your drive, and people are judged primarily on their level in the APS (rather than whether they get things done, are trustworthy, thoughtful, decent, accomplished or skilled), then all your incentives are directed to keeping that power. Certainly not saying everyone here is like this. It’s a real battle to get things done.Ĭanberra attracts a more than normal quota of people who want power, And it might be that APS officers who at first just wanted the good life (enough money, family, community, ordinary pleasures) eventually get pickled by the system and morph into grey-faced power mongers. It’s almost as if whenever some project is on the verge of getting done to a reasonably acceptable standard the senior people who weren’t involved go into action to bring it down.
I don’t think I would go quite as far as the above and start with a presumption that a person at that level has a mental illness, but it is very difficult to find people here who are focussed on getting results. I’m beginning to think there is something right out of kilter with the senior people here (SES level). I’ve been contracted into the APS for the past 12 months in Canberra (not long to go and I’ll be back working in another city) and have just brought this thread up on Google. Are there any happy APS employees out there? I’d be interested in getting the buzz from the RA community, many of whom I believe are members of the APS. Have me and my friends and family had a bad run? Is the APS actually a workers paradise, but we just haven’t been in the right place at the right time, or is it really as bad as it seems from every piece of evidence I can collect. In short, the APS seems to be a nightmarish hell-hole where the lunatics are running the asylum, and that sensible people should avoid at all costs if they wish to retain their sanity. I could go on and on, because these are just a few of many, many stories that I can relate from my own experience about the dysfunction of the current APS. That’s not always the case, but it happens often enough to be a good guideline.
MY FLEXTIME MANAGER PROFESSIONAL
I have long experience dealing with senior people from the APS in my professional capacity, and in general the best way to understand any transaction with them is to assume that you are dealing with someone who is suffering from a severe mental disorder such as, depression, sociopathy, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder etc. She said it felt like she was working in an asylum for the deranged. This person revealed that after a couple of months in the APS she’d found herself alone and sobbing in the toilets at her workplace. Today my wife went on a training course where she met a woman who’d joined the public service late in life in a senior management role after a long career in private enterprise.
Three members of my family have been senior career public servants, and they have all been invalided out due to work related mental illness.Ī few weeks ago we met a bloke working in a winery near Murrumbateman who was an ex public servant who’d given the game away due to the inhuman working conditions he had been forced to endure. Her brother recently left the APS due to stress related mental illness. It’s placed her, our family and our marriage under great stress, which we are still struggling to work through. My wife is a career public servant who has been driven to the verge of mental illness over the last few years by her mid-level role in the APS.
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