900 Bay Overheard

The Ontario Public Service in their own words. Not parody.

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"and you got the whiney ass bitches on reddit that make it worse for the rest of us"

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"one skill I've noticed [since return to office] is that I can smell a homeless person on the subway before I see them, which gives me a sort of warning system"

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"he could've been a wise old man — instead, he worked here"

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"kinda boring DOES describe MOF fairly well"

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"the reason you can read a 100 page document in 15 minutes is that it's not 100 pages. its 10 pages plus fluff."

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"people who are willing to jump thru bullshit hoops to get the job make better employees BECAUSE they are willing to jump thru bullshit hoops. that's the point"

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"he could've been a wise old man. instead, he worked here"

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"a masters degree is a modern church indulgence. it is worthless. it gives you a SENSE of spiritual security, of....of intellectual security. but it's fake. you might actually be a dumbass for getting one"

schools of public policy

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"change comes from OUTSIDE of government. the sooner u recognize that, the better off u'll be"

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"the response, okay, to worse and worse results, is more and more funding"

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"with the return to office we get the return of office politics, which I guess is just gossip. but not in the good way like gossip girl"

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"what I've learned is that no one, not one person, is going to reject an unlawful order if that time ever comes"

AWA's

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"I guess I don't have respect for anyone who doesn't want to game the system for better outcomes"

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"well there's no provision for customer service. it's not against the collective agreement to deny your [insurance] claim, make you wait on the phone, coordinate this with that, and then finally process it months later. you have no recourse. just like AWA"

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"the weakest thing is not that AMAPCEO is such a weak negotiator, it's that the members see them as strong"

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"the political staff are working at night bc they can work anywhere, and they're frustrated bc WE leave our laptops at the office for the next day and can't answer their questions until then. but them's the marbles."

[Rontario Swanson @RontarioSwanson]

cc @CanRevAgency

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"we add the bureaucracy to add accountability but when the bureaucracy makes everything cost one hundred times more and nothing gets done, that's being unaccountable in a very serious way"

[thebobert @thebobert]

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