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"Stress levels are rising, mental health is worsening and overall less public servants feel valued at work, according to results from the latest Public Service Employee Survey.

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The survey also found that more than a third of workers were either always or often emotionally drained after a workday."

#Canada #GC

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi

Ottawa Citizen · More public servants struggling with stress and mental healthBy Matteo Cimellaro

I have prevailed over the #GC travel system!

Unbeknownst to anyone, including perhaps the travel agency themselves, they no longer book approved travel automatically, you need to complete an unspecified extra step before they will actually book your flight.

In practice, this step appears to be calling the service desk and insisting that they book the travel that is already fully scheduled and approved in the system.

All of which I discovered at the check-in desk yesterday where the agents informed me I didn't have a seat on the flight I was trying to board.

It's good that #GC has standards that enforce support for both official languages. But some common sense would be nice. Today's example, a link to an update on our cluster:

<tld.gc.ca>/<wiki>/<sub>/<sub>/<Projects>/<Group>/Announcements/2025/20250516%20--%20New%20Site%20Profile%2020250516%20%20--%20%20Nouveau%20profil%20de%20site%2020250516

I need to take some time in the upcoming year to build a community here on Mastodon. I miss the amazing and broad range of amazing people in my tribe over on Twitter.

With my account deleted over there, I still haven't built that same sense of common purpose I had over there.
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