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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg
The few people I know at Hydro office say it's an extremely low stress, low output atmosphere and every 2nd Monday off. think about that next time you see your Hydro bill going up, up, up
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You guys really complaining about Hydro employees? Hydro's salary and benefit bill was $453 million last year, which represents 16% of its expenses. At the same time, Hydro paid the Manitoba Provincial Government $480 million in water rentals, debt guarantees and capital taxes. In other words, Hydro subsidizes provincial healthcare, education, and infrastructure expenditures in this province at a rate that is higher than their wage bill. If you think Hydro's wage bill is burdensome to provincial coffers somehow, then you should also ask the Premiere to not squeeze Hydro so hard for cash, right?
I don't think picking on the productivity of individual employees at the utility is very fair. To put things into contrast, the City of Winnipeg Police department's entire budget is $301 million this year, with probably 95% of that being salary costs. And that's just to provide ONE service to ONE city in this province.
People rag on public employees just because they can, with no real insight into how the institutions work or what its like to work there. If you people think government work is such an easy and lazy way to make money, why don't you go try working for them yourselves? Hydro has a lot of job postings on their site right now - but it looks like a lot of them require a P.Eng., which isn't exactly an "easy or lazy" qualification.