How Hard Is It To Fire A Federal Worker?
Well, it takes a village..except in DC where it seems it takes an acto fo congress tofire a fed. One reason we are mired in this mess. I think AR may have tried to get one fired in the 40's and maybe that was her inspiration....
The only criticism I would have of his article is the use of the term "federal worker". My brother is employed by the State of Oregon. When I first called him a "state worker" he corrected me by saying he was a "state employee"; calling him a "worker" assumed too much.
"Morris called government worker unions the “snake inside of the tent” and called on the next president and his or her senior advisers to make civil service management reform a high priority."
For all of his faults, this is something that Trump could take on as President. How many times have the American people heard him say "You're fired" on The Apprentice? At least they wouldn't be surprised.
Also From the Article:
"The first step, he said, is cutting the federal workforce — drastically.
“The first thing you need to do is downsize the government by about two million people,” Coburn said. There are about 2.7 million people working in the executive branch, according to OPM. But Coburn doubts Congress has the willpower to do anything drastic."
So why isn't Tom Coburn running for President?
Dan Goldin was brought in to set NASA straight, and quickly found the regional fiefdoms in Houston, Huntsville had such tight ties to powerful Senators that they could openly ignore any attempt to change business as usual. This is pretty much the norm for all government agencies.
I have little hope that any President can perform the wholesale cutbacks that are absolutely needed in the Federal workforce. Union busting has to take place, but that faces an uphill battle as well.
Coupled with...
If you were walking by the lakeshore and saw a local educator drowning do you know what steps to take to save them?
You don't!
Good.
Tell them we need to take a vote first?
Also, ours is: Managers are people who failed at Garbage Collection.
---Sure is a "Troubled Inheritance" pun intended.
What is ridiculous is that these very same things would bring an FBI investigation on any private business.
Their entrenchment is protected in the "civil service", which is why it is practically impossible to get rid of them. Political appointees who could be removed by the following administration transfer to the civil service to protect themselves.
When the top SES bureaucrats (Senior Executive Service) are caught in scandals, the bureaucracy closes ranks and rewards them with raises and promotions in compensation for their "suffering" at the hands of those who expose them. It would be better if they did spend their time on ordinary pornography instead of their ant-private property rights agenda that is so unjust in trampling citizen's civil rights that it is pornographic at a new and lower level of depravity.
in oak ridge TN years ago, anyone who successfully
fired anyone for any reason was celebrated as a hero
forever. . discrete, easy-evidence things like time clock
data forgery were the only areas which lent themselves
to firing-for-cause. . nothing in the area of word-of-mouth
evidence worked, it seemed. . very difficult! -- j
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The only time there is any speed is when they need a low level scape goat for a high level FU.
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