Civil Servant Covid Recognition

Do you think it was so easy?

Do you think having to adapt to working in a completely different way, without all the facilities of an office was a walk in the park for anyone? Do you think implementing new wrk practices, trying to adapt from mainly paper based systems to electronic ones practically overnight, was simple and not fraught with difficulties? No one could have forsaw what lockdowns brought.

Do you think it was magically easier for civil servants to adapt to working working from their kitchen tables or spare rooms (if they had one) surrounded by kids, spouses etc, than it was for private sector workers? Do you think they had money or equipment thrown at them to set up home offices like I read many in the private sector did?

It continues to amaze me that those who know the least about the civil service, are those that continue to complain the loudest. Its just pure ignorance of the worst kind.

Have to laugh at the poster above who thinks government departments literally closed their doors and sent their workers home when the pandemic hit. Its just another whole level of ignorance towards what civil servants do.

Government's don't shut down. Public offices were closed yes, and some services were curtailed due to public health measures but that doesn't mean there wasn't work being done. Hint - read my first paragraph again about civil servants adapting to new ways of working.

BTW, none of us asked for any bonus, either.

I could say the same to you.

Stop posting rubbish about things you obviously know nothing about.

LOL, look at you preaching at me about how difficult it was to do my job during the pandemic - as if you were the one doing it, not me!

The changeover to WFH has been done now, and proved successful so of course many people don't want to return to offices full time - but a significant number do want to return in some capacity. Mostly parents, funnily enough!

This is not exclusive to the civil or public service.

When was that, 20 **** years ago?

And we were one of those who adapted, and thrived, and have done so brilliantly, thanks very much - not that you'd ever acknowledge that because it might mean you'd have to give us some of the respect we actually deserve.

You know what, you've changed my mind.

Give me the bonus.

We **** deserve it for putting up with all the crap we have to put up with.

Oh we really do, and thanks to you, I now realise it, and also realise its the only acknowledgement we'll ever get for what was an extremely difficult situation.

Thanks for that.

LOL, the only thing I have realised is that some people are very stubborn, even when they know they're wrong.

What I also realise is the value of my own work, and that of my colleagues, and that we did an extraordinary job in very difficult and challenging circumstances.

You simply don't want to admit that, even though you know it. But you know what, derisive and disparaging attitudes like yours and "many people's" will only succeed in the hardening of attitudes of civil and public servants - especially after the last 18 months. Something I suspect that will stand to us very well in the next few years.

Because mark my words, the powers that be won't find the civil or public servants as accommodating and facilitating as they were after the collapse of the celtic tiger - not this time.

Have a nice evening.