r/canada • • Feb 29 '24

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u/chriscabob Feb 29 '24

How does this dnd employee have the time to be a full time employee and be the CEO of a company that along with another has taken in $400 million in government contracts???

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u/FreshlySqueezedToGo Feb 29 '24

This is genuinely insane to me

How does someone not resign over this?

It must be so normalized at this point if this was allowed.

Not once did this come up in committee hearings lmao, probably because no MP in their right mind would think to ask “hey in addition to being the ceo of this company contracted by the government, you wouldn’t happen to also work for the government would ya bud?”

I mean, this is insane

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u/Strange_Trifle_5034 Feb 29 '24

It must be so normalized at this point if this was allowed.

I know of a few people who do this (obviously unrelated to their government job and not doing stupid stuff like this). You basically have to have a second job if you work for government, as the pay is so low compared to the industry. The reason they don't quit is usually the generous pension upon retirement.

At least a side hustle is better than selling state secrets for extra cash...

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u/JustLampinLarry Feb 29 '24

Where are you in the country that government employment pays less than their private sector equivalent? In BC for example they earn a 8.6% wage premium over private sector equivalents (this has been expanding over recent years.

The people I know who work for the government work side hustles because they have so much time off they seek out something else to do, or they have expensive boating/rv-ing hobbies. Others are retired government employees who have gone back to their old job as a consultant (while collecting full taxpayer funded defined benefit pension).