Pointless Jobs

Are you sure they were definitely Council employees? They could be private contractors. Why was it obvious they were Council employees? I can guarantee their pay won't be up to much. Their bosses, however, well, that's a different story.

well i dont think its a pointless job..may be they are so dedicated to keep their city clean and to be the good citizens..who knows? you just cant say anything by just looking at the actions..whatever we see with our eyes sometimes dosnt comes out to be true about what we are thinking..and when we knows about the whole story we say ''oh it was in this sense,i thought it something else''....i guess they are the real citizens who finds their happiness in keeping their city clean..

I'd be frustrated if I were a tax payer in your area. Actually in my own town the tax payers are extremely frustrated. Not because people are being appointed to pointless jobs.. but because there are too many people appointed and unecessary. It all started a few years back when the Elementary School principal needed to be relieved of her position. Rumor has it she stopped a child from running in the hallway with a pair of scissors by grabbing the child's arm. Most parents would not see that as being a bad thing.. I'd rather someone grab my child's arm than allow them to be harmed by the scissors. Anyway, I guess the parents of this child raised a fuss and the principal had to be let go, but the school board decided they would not fire her. For awhile she was just suspended with pay.. then they found her a position in the district office. She's continuing to make principal salary.. but they basically invented a position for her.. so she's not really needed but she's being paid. Then last year (or was it earlier this school year? I can't remember) they decided to fire the high school principal out of the blue. I still don't really know why, but I believe it had something to do with politics and not his actual performance as a principal. Needless to say he's suing the school board.. and now they're spending money on lawyers, blah blah. Then the school board decided to let go of the superintendent.. but she wasn't fired and didn't resign.. she took an early retirement a few months before her term was to end.. or something like that. She's still being paid. So they got a new superintendent. I guess there was a clause in his contract where a particular employee was to earn $300,000 a year or he would not accept the superintendent position, and as it turns out he's romantically linked to this other person. So they suspended both of them... with pay. Now they're looking for yet a new superintendent. Yes, a lot of drama in our school district, but most of it is political stuff and they're basically paying a whole bunch of people who are doing nothing for the school district. Now mind you, while all this is going on, my kid's school bus has to travel all over the fricken town going from one side of it to another because there isn't enough in the budget to hire more drivers and run more busses. My preschooler has an hour long bus ride to come home because the bus drops off the morning kids while picking up the afternoon kids because there's not enough in the budget to run more busses during this time. Good teachers are being laid off. They may not have any sports next year. Coaches for certain sports already know they won't have a job next year, making a bunch of kids not want to participate if there are sports because their favorite coach is gone. Fourth and Fifth graders are now considered "Middle Schoolers" and will have to ride the bus with high school kids.. because there isn't enough in the budget to run the 4 schools we used to have (it used to be K-2 in one school, 3-5 in another.. then middle and high school.. now we have K-3, middle, and high school). And the entire district unanimously declined the proposed budget.. wonder why? Our money isn't going where we'd like it to. They're spending it on paying for people with no jobs or pointless jobs instead of spending it on our kids!

Most public servants and half of bank employees have pointless jobs, if you ask me One of the things that stunned me a few weeks ago: I went to file in a tax report. There is an application where you can do that, but it's not online, you have to download and install it on your computer, fill in the data, export it to a file, and take the file on a stick or CD to the tax authorities. Needless to say, I was already furious and waiting to pick a fight when I got there. And there were two ladies: one was in charge of giving you a piece of paper to prove that you brought in the report, and the other one took the CD and checked if your report had any technical errors (not errors in how you filled in the data, just if it's compatible with the application). So, there's process that took me half a day and employed four people (because the two ladies worked in shifts) and which could be done in 60 seconds with a online application. And guess what? The tax authorities that throw away the money in this manner did not find enough funds to set up an information booth and to pay a person to stay there, so you can ask for directions when you get in their building.

It sounds as if a Time and Motion expert would be pulling their hair out watching these ladies! In these straightened times, I too can think of other ways to spend our money! What does it matter if nature goes a bit wild for a few years while we sort out our economic blackhole. People are far more important than things so money should be spent on us!

Only a person who is not happy anymore with his job can call his job pointless. Other people may not undertand why a person would choose a simple job, but who cares, as long as you are happy and feel significant about your job, no matter how simple it may seem for others, just do it. So it doesnt matter if your earning big or not from a job, if youre not happy with a job then its pointless... Now there is an issue here about spending taxpayer's money on what should be a volunteer-type of job...well governments, especially the most corrupt ones, have a lot of problem with setting their priorities straight which leads to poor governance and suffering of their people. i guess all government are corrupt, corruption is such an intrinsic part of a government system, some governments are just really really good at keeping their anomalies hidden from the public's eye.

Yesterday I got an email with a bunch of different programs our governmnet supports but they want to eliminate....as far as I am concerned they could all go....and the people who are running the agencies that are sucking the life out of our tax money! I also feel like much of it could be better spent....like more on educating people on how to go to work instead of the court house for handouts!

I think those jobs you described come under the category of making things "beautiful" by stripping away their natural aspects. What a shame! Yes, here in the U.S. we have useless jobs. We have sidewalks and bridges the go nowhere, wheelchair ramps where there aren't even sidewalks and other construction projects that aren't needed. They are part of the "stimulus" of 2008 and have done little to get the economy going, just wasting our tax money. It really angers me and we can't seem to get anyone in that has any common sense!

Perhaps they were just volunteers doing it just to be good citizens?

You should see big corporations, and see the high level managers with the high falutin titles! You go about what they do each day, and realize that their jobs are pointless. Even when they say they do management tasks, you then see that they have people that does everything they say do. Unless of course you wouldn't call 'taking credit for jobs' as pointless.

Could be convicts serving their "community service" requirements. Sounds like that kind of "manufactured" job. Don't quite see where the take is - there has to be corruption involved somewhere!

Well I can tell you from experience that cities and states do not seem to waste their money. I used to work for the city here in NY and believe me, it was wasted money. I used to want to keep busy during the day so I decided to start moving things around with the forklift. The other city workers were yelling at me saying, the city is not going anywhere, slow down, take it easy, relax. I was amazed. So, when it comes to city and state jobs, they do waste plenty of money.

Over here,what you said is referred to as"the common rice pot",which is often used figuratively to refer to a kind of absolute equalitarianism in which everybody gets the usual pay irrespectively to his or her performance.If not,they got the job since someone had pulled the wires.

When I was in university i was choosen by ny teacher and my local goverment to make interview with local enterpreneur. I must observe all of them about their problem. And always tells that goverment will be help them. but actually it is non cent. Because the budget for the enterprenour was dissappear with the staff of goverment. they also make reason for the adsministration. I think it is a wastefull time dan make a big lie for them.Iam so dissapointed now.