Finally, David, among the Queensland journalists, you have come out and finally say it.
Who hired them? What qualifications did they possess? Would either of them have scored a job anywhere else with similar qualifications and judgement?
The Focus of David Fagan’s piece is on young people, but, what I am talking about, is the rest of the population of a life-time experience.
On Friday (12th April) I had to digitally apply for Centrelink payments, again. On Monday (15th April) I had a short Centrelink phone interview from (we assumed) a young woman. She (if it is a she) was professional and also warm, expressing her humanity. But the questions were absurd. It was those type of questions that, had the generic interviewer listened carefully, the next question was completely redundant to any intelligent thinker. The questions were designed in the hypo-security mentality, as tests to trick the interviewee in revealing their devilishness. After all, in the thinking of the Centrelink executive managers everyone who applies for a Centrelink payment is, clearly, out to cheat the government and taxpayers’ dollars. So, the fault is not among as “mug” workers. The problem is in executive managerial thinking, as it been practiced for the last 30 years.
You would have thought that the Robodebt scandal cured government and, for that matter, universities, of bad employment practices, of bad funding practices, and bad appointment practices. But, sadly no!
Here I am, 62 years of age who is the leading scholar of big belief and doubt in the State of Queensland, leading the fields of history, sociology, and philosophy (applied). And I have not had income from employment since the end of 2009, and had no income from short contracts since the end of 2018.
My status as a job candidate is at the highest level for research and writing social-education policy, far above those currently employed or contracted in the Queensland Government:
EVIDENCE
- David Fagan, Under-qualified and over-confident – what ‘advice’ could these people possibly offer? InQueensland, Apr 16, 2024, updated Apr 16, 2024
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Featured Image: 2018-10-30 Dr Neville Buch with Fryer Manager Simon Farley at the Geopoetry Talk UQ.
2018-10-30 Dr Neville Buch with Fryer Manager, Simon Farley, at the Geopoetry Talk, UQ
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