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 From: PB  
  
 some 40% of external job postings and competitions are rigged charades. 
  
 as reported in newspapers and said to me many times by temp agencies. 
  
 it is a shaky edifice of lies, corruption, and incompetence. take your pick. 
  
 From: "notritenoteri"  
  
 and your point is? You can't get a civil service job is that it? Well 
 cripple yourself , speak french, paint yourself foreign, become a female if 
 you're not one already, preferably a minority appearing one and declare a 
 handicap.  Then scream discrimination. 
  
 From: campb...@babayaga.neotext.ca (Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu) 
  
 This was not always so.  Which at least goes to argue that this need not be 
 so. 
  
 The civil service should be seen as some valuable national service 
 and not a parasite upon the taxpayer.  This is more than just a PR failing. 
  
 Reforming the civil service starts with the top and promotions should be 
 from the ranks.  I would begin with the abstraction and training of a 
 corps of exceptional individuals within the current civil service. 
  
 Sort of like the old ICS, but since we have no remittance men left we'll 
 have start with just Babus. 
  
 Dhu 
  
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 From: "Ian St. John"  
  
 Scientists report that 25% of all species will become extinct over the next 
 50 years because changing habitat will fail to sustain life. In a similar 
 way, human beings need work for life. That is why it is called a living 
 wage. No work and you die. There are already 350,000 homeless on the streets 
 of Canada. One wonders which human groups are scheduled for extinction over 
 the next 50 years? 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)