Michael, we really have to talk . . .

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Michael O'Neill

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The public service: home of the lengthy lunch and the idle underworked and overpaid. Right? Wrong. Michael, we really have to talk . . . details a public service more likely to be a place of over-work, overt and covert bullying and denial of obvious dysfunction. This book is an honest retelling of life in today's public service written by a man who spent 50 years there. Michael tells harrowing tales of the best-kept secrets with humor as well as popular, artistic and intellectual allusions. Michael is as bad as hell as he scatters the toxic undergrowth to reveal a clear path to bureaucratic reform. If you work in the public service, defiantly display Michael, we really have to talk . . . on your desk.

Author Biography:

Michael O'Neill spent the majority of his working life in public sectors in Australia in roles ranging from file clerk, to teacher, and finally staff counsellor. Ideologically committed to civil service rather than the private sector, he derived great satisfaction from being involved in service to the public. Michael's studies saw him on campuses in the 60s and early 70s during that period of heightened social awareness and growing student radicalism which spawned the New Left: young women and men dedicated to creating a better world. He was deeply involved then in the search for understanding, truth and honesty, a search he continued with constant energy and analytical precision his entire life. He was also a dedicated diarist, essayist, sketch artist and journalist, though his work is largely unpublished. Michael's sudden death in August 2013 interrupted but did not prevent the publication of his first book, Michael, we really have to talk . . .

Release date NZ

May 2nd, 2015

Author

Michael O'Neill

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

270

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780992593445

Product ID

23425496

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