It joins its friend 'institutionalised'.
Two words to use when you can't find an identifiable example of something, but you know that it's there.
I like that word institutionalized, i first came across it after watching Shawshank Redemption.
Used to describe that prisoner who had spent most or his life in prison so when he got out he didnt know how to live life. He had become accustomed to have all his decisions made for him, when to eat shit shower...
Ill tell you who are institutionalized, council employees.
One you get used to working in a government job you pick up bad habits, a public funded organisation has no pressure or waay less pressure; they dont need to make money to survive.
I met a civil engineer who was ex council who got fired from 2 jobs because he just wasnt fast enough. After a almost a decade at the council.
I worked for a council a decade or so ago for a short period and personally witnessed the timewasting, money wasting atmosphere. I overheard a senior manager complaining about a new upstart employee who had come in from the private sector who had ruffled feather as he was finishing jobs before deadline
I kid you not! He went on to say that they were going to have to work on him... theres no reward for productivity just makes all you fellow employees green and hate you for upsetting the status quo.
I designed my line manager the most simple of excel spreadsheets so he could do one of his tasks in 10 mins instead of 4 hours of manual calculation. He told me to keep it quiet , he would continue to use the spreadsheet but not tell anyone of its existence...
That the other thing, the council senior staff are mostly mediocre cause they prefer to promote from within even if they are not the best candidate. Just hold fake interviews cause they have too ...
TLDR council workers who have worked their over a certain period become "institutionalized "
