Some things never change!

Kia Ora,

Have been involved with a security task on subcontract.

Since not a true business yet where you can work on not in the business it has meant shortage of time. Not that I would ever want to completely stop doing the work on the ground as enjoy it too much.

What it has highlighted though is that some things never change.

Recently I blogged on the training system asking whether it was a corrupt system.

Well the last week & a bit has just made it clearer.

Since the industry at this time of the year is always stretched in Canterbury & this year even more due to post earthquake requirements especially here in Christchurch our teams always have inexperienced people on them.

This year we have been working with a lot of people from a local course where participants are often placed by government departments. One department in particular.
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Well the insistance of these departments that people get training is great but not if the system is based on bureaucratic corruption.

The majority of those coming through are not up to even a minimum standard. Worse the person that joined our team had worked with us last year on same task but this year was even worse.

Despite the team putting the hard word on this person to perform & pointing out where they had to improve, there were only small gains.
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To make it even worse they were caught out all the time giving false positions or making up accounts of what was happening.

There were other issues that I won't go into here, but at the end of the task they were told they had to buck up or forget the industry as at current level they can not be trusted.

Yet we know that if they continue on the course they will pass.

There is a need for some bureaucracy but when it gets to the stage where a corrupt system insists on taking a course that will lower, not raise the standards you have to wonder where the world is going too.

Somethings never change!

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