Error from the office - No legally compliant and error-free development plan

Joe, if you are like me in the senior service area, the pay is quite okay. But when I see police officers in the middle service, how little they put up with, and when a parliamentary representative like recently in Leipzig says they have only themselves to blame if they get injured, they could just stay away when the autonomous folks want to set off some firecrackers... then .... grrrr

And 11ant, there are not more alcoholics in the building authority than, say, in the window company.

I did not say that there are more alcoholics in the building authority; only that if you have alcoholics in the public service and you cannot dismiss them because of lifetime civil servant status, then it is most practical to assign them there. If you made them all breakfast directors (because promotion is the only disciplinary measure against which civil servants cannot defend themselves), the taxpayer would be even more annoyed. By the way, alcoholics were the only problem that I did not have in "my" window company.

But exactly what should motivate a civil servant, maybe you can explain that to me.

The meaning of what one does. That is not a question of the type of employment relationship, but applies equally to workers, employees, civil servants, and self-employed persons.

the example of goalkeeper immediately comes to my mind next.

The remedy would be: hire extremely professionally competent, well-legally advised staff. But that is not possible with a clerk position in group A9.

The fish stinks from the head, even in Schilda. Mayors are elected civil servants (i.e. ordinary people like you and me, and elected, for which competence is unfortunately not a prerequisite), by the way paid under pay grade B.

B but not in SH. A13 or 14 here, if applicable for cities over 10k. A15.

because the promotion is the only disciplinary measure against which the civil servant cannot defend themselves

I think you are mistaken. It should be an administrative act subject to a duty to cooperate.

a civil servant thread...
so far I have met many nice ones and just have a guess why their impression is so negative:
it’s probably due to the terrible straitjacket of regulations and procedures, that you just can’t settle something "quickly and unbureaucratically." That maybe many/some start in the respective fields with a certain drive, possibly also with the intention to change something (like in politics) and then at some point get frustrated realizing that it doesn't work because the old-timers don’t cooperate or the regulations simply don’t allow it.
That they have to work according to regulations because otherwise they would be immediately reported.
No matter how crazy the regulation is.
Sure, that frustrates you and you no longer go to work joyfully, but just work through the madness.

Of course, there are also complete idiots and clueless people, just like in any other profession.

Of course, you can resist promotions. I am now A14 level 8, that is the final stage. They offered me a level 15 position a few years ago. But we would have had to move and part of the salary is also compensation for pain and suffering. I declined.