親おや方かた日ひの丸まる

noun

government-job complacency; public-sector entitlement mentality

A critical idiom describing the attitude of government employees who feel their jobs are secure and that fiscal discipline does not apply because the state is their employer. Often used in discussions of bureaucratic inefficiency or wasteful spending.

• あの役やく所しょの対たい応おうはまさに親おや方かた日ひの丸まるだ。

  That government office's attitude is exactly the 'public-sector entitlement mentality.'

• 親おや方かた日