norlander
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I have never been able to understand how it is cheaper to privatise something than run it in house.
My experience of it is that it isn't. First issue is the bean counters want costs brought down, managers with no ideas cut staff.
call in consultant (forum rules prevent me from spelling that how I would like) a bloke who asks you for your watch then tells you what the time is.
Get contractors in. Pay redundancy to inhouse staff, they take their redundancy dosh and come back next day as contract staff.
All fine for few months, then the contractor takes em away to another site coz that site is complaining.
You now get the "B team" service is crap, you complain, but the "A team has moved on".
You don't renew the contract and get a new contractor, day 1, your old inhouse blokes turn up with a new uniform on (cos they know the site and have been poached by the new contractor)
Ok For a few months, then hello B team.
The seed that state/council run services are crap is well sown, but not always true. But privatisation is big business, makes for a cheaper workforce, and often allows bad managers to survive-there are managers and there are " team leaders".
Leadership was sadly lacking in most managers I came across.