Season 1 of the saga Sheppard ("Absolutely overwhelmed") proposed a comical picture, humorous and realistic enough (alas!) Of some administrations of territorial authorities: here, a municipality. If the first episode cruelly detailed the modes of recruitment and promotion of staff, the second deals with a more sensitive issue: the fate (if sad) of public money in this municipality. Egos, machismo usual (alas, alas), "forces" ignorant and uneducated but appetite feature (s), cronyism, "networks" (on the occasion, friends), all contribute to it be called waste or misappropriation of taxpayers' money. The protagonist ends up discovering that even in the "public service", a union may be useful against a fierce hierarchy made (and dangerous) by the threat that represents trublionne for their "benefits (badly) acquired". The style is always removed, often close to the spoken language among students or "djeune". It is neither of Flaubert, or the Blondin nor of Frédéric Dard, and obviously not the Mary Higgins Clark ... It reads easily. After reading it, I can not help but wonder: "How can we get there?". I live in a town of some 1,500 inhabitants. There is 30 years, with 950 residents, it employed a technician and 2.5 secretaries today are 12 agents and 3.5 secretaries. And the town has just completed a "sports complex" (cost: several million euros) and hires 2 more workers for the maintenance and upkeep of the new white elephant. The slot gap portrayed by Sheppard should cause many citizens to reconsider their attitude to vote periodically is not enough, we should check ...
