{"id":5536,"date":"2020-11-27T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klipklaar.nl\/geen-onderdeel-van-een-categorie\/not-whistleblower-but-gatekeeper\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T08:55:14","slug":"not-whistleblower-but-gatekeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klipklaar.nl\/en\/the-compassionate-civil-servant\/not-whistleblower-but-gatekeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Not whistleblower, but gatekeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In recent weeks, I have been glued to the tube. I am watching the House of Representatives and their questioning on the problems in government implementation of policy. I listen back to all the interviews at double the speed as I walk around the neighborhood. The hearings cover both the major issues at the Temporary Committee on the Implementation Organizations<\/a> and very specifically the child care benefit scandal<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

Yesterday I listened to our boss of all, Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He was referring to Ms. Palmen’s memo, which was questioned a week earlier. In that 2017 memo, she raises the alarm to her management team and writes in plain language that something bad is going on. <\/p>\n\n

Rutte called that memo a whistleblowers alert. <\/p>\n\n

I was startled. By saying that, he is basically saying that if you disagree with your manager and hit the emergency brake hard, you are a whistleblower. That when you provide unwelcome feedback to colleagues and managers neatly through the official process, because that is what a memo is, just internally in your own organization, you are a whistleblower. <\/p>\n\n

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