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Re: How not to get fired...
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Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:28:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Work for the US Federal Government, that's how!
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> "Federal personnel data shows that just 434 civilian federal workers were
> fired for poor performance in 2001." (well under 1 in a thousand... not
> surprising since 98%+ get "fully satisfactory" performance ratings)
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> from a Cato Institute screed on the Fox News site:
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> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,69557,00.html
A note to the mentally lazy: pointing out that not very many people get
fired (compared to how for profit businesses where employee performance
presumably matters) is not the same thing as suggesting that there ought to
be a quota(1) on how many people get fired a year in government.
The point is that US government jobs are, in large part, sinecures. Once one
secures one, one is safe from actually having to do good work. (2)
1 - While I personally would be in favour of such a quota, it misses the
point to suggest it, and it's a tired rhetorical device to try misdirection
like that
2 - Since no good debater responded to this post, I shall henceforth assume
that we all agree this is true, US government workers don't have to perform.
++Lar
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I can think of one gov't employee I'd really like to see fired, but he was more-or-less hired by his dad. I've worked a number of jobs alongside sons or daughters of the employer, and time and again I've observed their tendency to, let us say, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I'm saddened that it took you a week to respond to my post, and when your response did arrive it took the form of a personal insult. A few days ago you said this: ==+== Slinging names is not the way to keep this debate where it needs to be. Because (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Work for the US Federal Government, that's how! "Federal personnel data shows that just 434 civilian federal workers were fired for poor performance in 2001." (well under 1 in a thousand... not surprising since 98%+ get "fully satisfactory" (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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