Quite so MikeyC. I agree with you.

As with all jobs, professional or otherwise, there are lurkers working alongside those who engage in hard yacker.

Since managers claim 'managements right to manage', and that is a long enshrined industrial principle accepted by all (in general at least) then it falls to management to explain how shirkers, the ill equipped, poorly trained, illsuited, shysters and old style lazy sods, remain employed.

This is not a case of Gillard's Fair Work laws, or the perceived sloth of public services, just a reflection of very poor managers and management systems.

And this occurs in public and private industry, even though private industry refuse to accept their own incompetence in knowing how to manage well.

Good luck with your new professional body, it's a good move.