re-educating the uncivil service
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opinion/analysis 
Sunday August 21, 2005 15:09
by John McDermott - removefiannafail
jmcd444 at yahoo dot com
Spain
The place you want to be is living by the sea.!
An american psycho-decentralization program will reprogramme directionless civil servants.
Stubborn civil servants confused about the directionlessness of their lives are being offered their own " personal life coach"councilling at the taxpayers expense ,the Sunday Independent reports (21-8-05)
The initial beneficiaries of the fashionable, american style psychotherapy support,will be the160 staff at the Valuation Office in Dublin.
"Life coaching sessions" cost between 600 and 1000 Euros per client.It has not been established whether the service will be expanded to the entire civil service,which would add enormously to the bin taxes,commercial rates and all stealth taxes.
Life coaching has become a multi million dollar industry in america with so called "Gurus" offering to reshape the lives of those who have lost direction...
The officials at the Valuation office are facing a sea change in their lives,an 180 mile relocation to East Cork.
Only a handful of the 99 civil servants targeted for transportation to the yuppie yachting, resort town of Youghal are however, yearning for the right direction.(South).
The scheme will operate initially for one year ,and if the civil servants have not found their way to where they are going the councilling will be extended for a further two years.
Leading life coach Greg Dalton of Q1etc.com said that the new service would save the state money-in the long run.He said "Coaching gets you from where you are to where you want to be" and described it as an enhanced form of career guidance...
If Greg does not succeed in his task,presumably Bertie will be recruiting 99 new civil servants from the environs of the unemployment black spot of East Cork.
Maybe it is better described as a service to; "get you from where you are to where you dont want to be"!
(P.S. This article is a factual one in case you think we are taking the mickey.Check the Independent Archives if you dont believe it! ) or web site;
http://q1etc.com/q1/index.asp