There is something truly offensive about the revelation last week that the Prime Minister's communications director has asked staff in all ministers' offices to rate their boss on his or her ability to handle communications.
People have leapt to the defense of Sandra Buckler, the staffer who ordered the spy job in which everyone involved in the secret evaluation was to report directly back to her. The major defence being used to defend this dastardly practice claims performance evaluation is part of everyone's job.
Is everyone on woofer dust? Performance evaluations are not done in secret, are done to measure how well an employee has met an agreed upon set of goals and are done by the person to whom an employee reports. When did Buckler become the boss to whom cabinet ministers report? What are the agreed upon communications goals cabinet ministers are being evaluated on? And evaluations done in secret? So this is how Stevie wonder defines transparency!
When I went to school, sneaks and tattletales were the lowest order of life, way below the bully boys and venomous tongued girls. But here we have the PMO modelling snitching as a preferred management tool. What's next? Take a page out of Hewlett Packard's book and bug miisters' phone lines? Wire their bedrooms to find out what pillow talk is going on in the cabinet?
You'll excuse me if I take leave of you for the moment - I have an overwhelming need to shower.
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