[nzlug] Idea...

[Simon Bridge]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 18:25 +1200, cr wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008 16:56, Simon Bridge wrote:
> > Part of the license fee saving on changing to open standards, in govt,
> > can go to a bonus in the paypackets of everyone in the department...
> 
> But you see, paying staff more money = Bad Thing.    It will only Set 
> Precedents and encourage them to demand even more.   
> 
> Whereas paying Bill Gates - errm, sorry, the Designated IT Service Provider - 
> more money is a Good Thing, it indicates that the software you're buying 
> _must_ be extra good quality.   So Productivity MUST have gone up, and 
> figures will be fudged as necessary to prove it.
> 
This I've experienced.

> (Umm, this doesn't apply specifically to government departments, it applies to 
> _all_ organisations that are big enough to have IT Managers and Human 
> Resources Managers and Purchasing Managers and suits and managedroids up the 
> wazoo...   anywhere big enough that the people doing the buying don't feel 
> it's their own paypackets they're spending).

Which is why the suits also get a bonus.

IME: the managers care a great deal about their bonuses. The "all
employees" bonus would be appropriately scaled of course.

If we include polititians, it should get through parliament...
especially if a portion of the savings can go to increased govt
services. Then they can say they are saving taxpayer funds and helping
people at the same time :)

Trouble is - the higher salaries commission may have something to say
about that.