civil service – Bertha Harian

The baby, the bathwater and the bathtub

Everybody is reading tea leaves again. You can be sure that every time the Prime Minister opens his mouth from now, people will speculate...

berthahensonMay 2, 2015

I’m glad I’ve never worked in the public service. What if I got placed on – or streamed into – some career track with...

berthahensonAugust 27, 2014

So I know that civil servants had some pretty good news today on medical benefits but I pity the poor civil servant who has...

berthahensonJuly 5, 2014

I had an interesting three days immersed, or rather drowning, in civil service- speak in a workshop. It’s the polysyllabic language of the vague...

berthahensonJanuary 11, 2014