So far (near as I can tell) the only people let go have been the buy-out (volunteer) folks and most of the probationary workers (last hired, first fired). I wondered how the "come back to the office or get fired" was working out?
Federal workers have been programmed to believe they are invincible to being removed from their jobs no matter what they do or how unnecessary their jobs are. It’s one big bloated million-member club and the politicians are its benefactors. So suck it up all you private industry working assholes. If you get laid off that’s because the greedy company owners don’t care about you. Oh yea keep paying your taxes that fund our salaries.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: they grow. They never shrink, they never stay the same size. Government always increases, and government DOES NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING. We not only need to eliminate whole agencies with their entire staff and all their regulations, we need to place a hard limit -say, 5%- on how much government can EVER cost as a fraction of GDP. The way to cull the federal services is to eliminate entire agencies. Firing a few is not the answer. Fire. Them. All. The first targets should be failed agencies. Education: 50 years of increasing cost, 50 years of dumbing down the testing, and the BEST that can be said is that student performance hasn't gone up (it's gone down- the tests are easier now). #1 in the world when Carter created the Ed Dept, #40 today. Fire. Them. All. FEMA: a joke for decades. Fire. Them. All. USAID: funding our enemies. Fire.Them. All. CDC: a case study in mission creep. Fire half, or more.
Any way which culls the federal government of useless and/or toxic employees is the right way to do it. And as anyone who has had the opportunity to encounter the feds in a way that requires the feds assistance, they're nearly all useless and/or toxic.
Actually the worker is wrong, the only purpose of most federal permits has been to justify a massive increase in the bureaucracy. A large government gives many ways to syphon off billions or trillions as we are finding out now. So all those federal workers and permits are just smoke screens for theft
Back in the 90's before my glorious retirement, the major corporation I worked for was laying off 20% of the staff in a central location based on performance for a change. I called a friend there and asked how it was going. He said that 20% of the people were doing 5% of the work and now there was no one to do that 5%. Do we believe that of the government?
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WTF most have been home only working very part time.
ReplyDeleteUnburdened by what has been. Learn to code fuckers!
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Departing Mexicans will be leaving jobs behind too.
DeleteWe've had to put up with your god complexes for decades. So screw you, just get the hell out and stay out. I wish whole agencies were being cut.
ReplyDeleteSo far (near as I can tell) the only people let go have been the buy-out (volunteer) folks and most of the probationary workers (last hired, first fired).
ReplyDeleteI wondered how the "come back to the office or get fired" was working out?
Federal workers have been programmed to believe they are invincible to being removed from their jobs no matter what they do or how unnecessary their jobs are. It’s one big bloated million-member club and the politicians are its benefactors. So suck it up all you private industry working assholes. If you get laid off that’s because the greedy company owners don’t care about you. Oh yea keep paying your taxes that fund our salaries.
ReplyDeletePournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: they grow. They never shrink, they never stay the same size. Government always increases, and government DOES NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING.
ReplyDeleteWe not only need to eliminate whole agencies with their entire staff and all their regulations, we need to place a hard limit -say, 5%- on how much government can EVER cost as a fraction of GDP.
The way to cull the federal services is to eliminate entire agencies. Firing a few is not the answer. Fire. Them. All.
The first targets should be failed agencies. Education: 50 years of increasing cost, 50 years of dumbing down the testing, and the BEST that can be said is that student performance hasn't gone up (it's gone down- the tests are easier now). #1 in the world when Carter created the Ed Dept, #40 today. Fire. Them. All. FEMA: a joke for decades. Fire. Them. All. USAID: funding our enemies. Fire.Them. All. CDC: a case study in mission creep. Fire half, or more.
Last job I got fired from didn't offer me anything but the front door.
ReplyDeleteAny way which culls the federal government of useless and/or toxic employees is the right way to do it. And as anyone who has had the opportunity to encounter the feds in a way that requires the feds assistance, they're nearly all useless and/or toxic.
ReplyDeleteNo pity, no remorse.
ReplyDelete"This is not the way to do it"....
ReplyDeleteUh-uh, sweetheart, this is Exactly the way to do it. Learn to code.
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Actually the worker is wrong, the only purpose of most federal permits has been to justify a massive increase in the bureaucracy. A large government gives many ways to syphon off billions or trillions as we are finding out now.
ReplyDeleteSo all those federal workers and permits are just smoke screens for theft
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Back in the 90's before my glorious retirement, the major corporation I worked for was laying off 20% of the staff in a central location based on performance for a change. I called a friend there and asked how it was going. He said that 20% of the people were doing 5% of the work and now there was no one to do that 5%. Do we believe that of the government?
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