A day in the life of a Transport Canada employee’s email bin. (Edited for length)
Last chance! Submit your P.R.I.D.E story to the Positive Space team [6] by Friday, July 9
Faces of Change: See how Emma Comeau is supporting reconciliation through co-management [7]
Reminder: The MS Teams recording feature is now restricted at TC [8]
Are you struggling to maintain your mental health? You are not alone
· Watch these videos from LifeSpeak [15] if you have been affected by the news from Canada’s residential schools (client name and password: canada)
· Visit the Wellness Together Canada portal [16] for mental health and substance abuse supportCheck out the Agile Centre of Excellence’s new and revamped Agile Foundations training [17]! New dates available in July
Learn more about Indigenous culture and reconciliation
· Rewatch presentations by Indigenous speakers:o Inuit history and culture by Kevin Qamanik-Mason of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami [18]
o Métis history, culture and reconciliation with Shirley Delorme Russell of the Louis Riel Institute [19]
· Check out the Indigenous Learning Hub [20] on myTC
· Visit the Canada School of Public Service’s Indigenous E-Learning: Tools and resources [21] page
· Sign up for Reconciliation, Relationship and Treaty 11 Centenary [22] – Wednesday, July 7
· Read the Translation Bureau’s blog Innu: A rapidly transforming language [23]
· Read Our Women and Girls are Sacred [24], the interim report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and GirlsCheck out upcoming Canada School of Public Service events [25] like this one:
· Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion: A Year After George Floyd [26] – Thursday, July 8News Releases:
· Minister of Transport announces funding for Indigenous communities to address underwater vessel noise impacts on marine mammals [27]
· Building a green economy: Government of Canada to require 100% of car and passenger truck sales be zero-emission by 2035 in Canada [28]
· Minister of Transport highlights the important contribution of seafarers [29]This week’s emails from our leaders
· Message from the Deputy Ministers – Monday, June 28 [30]
· Message to managers [31] – Wednesday, June 30
Hang in there, Al.
I have a similar inbox.
Fun fact: gc.ca management is aware that over 90 % of their emails go unread. Not sure exactly how they track that, but my manager insists it is true.
Here:
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/set-email-tracking-pixel-49332.html
and from the BBC, (if the BBC knows, almost everyone else knows…)
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56071437
If you haven’t “clicked” or opened an email, they’ll know. So if you open the obviously garbage emails, the sender will know and you “may” get more garbage emails.
I think the emails from other gov’t departments may continue for infinity though, read or not read.
Some good email systems let you choose whether to send read notifications or open notifications. My work “helpfully” sets those for me. So when a message comes from the office of cultural diversity and wellness healing (no, not actually that) I click on it without opening and leave it there while I go back to work until the next email comes. After 5 seconds, it marks itself as read (also configurable).
Eagle:
A friend could tell me the exact time I opened one of his e-mails. He would, for example, send me a YouTube link and later say something like, “I see you opened my e-mail this morning at 10.20 – what do you think of the song?”
So it must be a feature of certain mail apps. Obviously one that sends a return e-mail with the opening date/time.
Creeped me out.
These are the actions of a decadent organisation. They are wealthy (in this instance on the taxpayer dime but it occurs when any business gets big enough) and that allows the cultural marxist parasites with no concept of the raison d’etre of the organisation to infest the business in positions of responsibility and promote this bollocks .
I used to work in the UK for a ‘Train Operating Company’. It became a company that operates trains.
A perfect example of a useless government job. Produces nothing except for sucking up hard working tax money from those who actually do something.
Paying the Indigenous to study if white man makes noise in the water scaring fish…
More government paid jobs.
Certainly the biggest sector of government spending is on government grants for useless studies.
Big Brother & Big Sister.
Sis tells you the way its going to be and Bro enforces it.
It’s like this everywhere. We routinely get emails from c-suite about the latest media outrages in the US (even though we are Canadian) and every radical progressive, SJW cause of the week is promoted as though it was the most important event in the history of mankind. There’s been a bunch of pushback so the endless stream of it has slowed down but it hasn’t stopped.
Again, none of this is about HR. Finance, legal, c-suite, ops, etc. are all on board with the progressive agenda and it’s only going to get worse. Contra smug 80s-90s conservatives, the real world didn’t change the university-educated radicals, the university-educated radicals changed the real world. BUT muh STeM deGreeS!
I suppose that if they just piped CBC “news” 24/7 instead it might look too much like ‘1984’, the warning novel that became the manual.
I wonder if the increasingly strengthened but inverted apartheid of the Spawn’s eco-klepto-fascism is an outgrowth of his Obama-envy years where, in the US case, the identity politics was ubiquitous and black-face is now playing catch-up with the left’s permanent pet victim group. Regardless, the Eloi love it.
37 1/2 years with the federal government. I should thank God every day I’m out. That Stalinist union, Peesack, must be even worse.
The closer I came to retirement the more I would respond to the SJW’s who generated the garbage in the corporate head office with why they were idiots.
There is a feature in email reading programs called “send email receipts” or something similar.
You can clear this checkbox and your mail client will not automatically inform the sender that you opened the email…
You just need the proper ‘mission statement’ type buzzwords above your email signature.
“work sets you free”
What have any of those emails to do with their actual work?
Work?
This is the government, they do no work, just shuffle papers around and not answer legitimate questions about it from us peons.
Same shit with the CRA. Whenever we got an email with the words equity, aboriginal,climate change etc etc it was an automatic delete. The one I remember best was ” how to make your own dream catcher.”
I still have nightmares about that place after 15 years.
This is nothing. TC in the past few months has gone crazy. I have screen shots