https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/smoke-out-resistance/As a retired federal employee (Forest Service), I concur with the author.
History: I joined the federal workforce because I was already vested in the military and got preference for employment. (Note at a time when affirmative action nearly blocked me from getting any other job. My two degrees meant nothing until I got on the prefered military roster.) When I started at the Economic Crop Service (or something like that), I was gungho. I was going to make a difference. One day I opened a door to an ajoining office. There I found a fellow sleeping at his desk. I asked about it. I was told that he was going to retire in 6 months and that there was nothing that could be done about his behaviour. I was appalled. I stated to myself that I would NEVER become that type of dead weight on the government. He did retire and was given a pillow so that he would not hurt himself when he fell asleep and hit his head on the desk.... d********g....
...Life goes on. I joined the Forest Service as a programmer. I felt my work was beneficial to the more efficient development of roads for forest logging. (That issue can be debated of course). After many years and better products becoming available commercially, I was reassigned to Information Techniologies (again something like that) where I eventually ended up helping to track the efficiencies of other employees and trying to get help desks etc to high performing standards.
...What a rube. One day I asked my supervisor as to how they were using my reports. I was told they were not...yet. I asked how would they be used. No answer. At that point, I realized I had become useless. I decided to retire. After looking at the retirement pay scale, I decided to stay one more year ... Yes I had sold out. I had become that employee I dispised way back 30+ years earlier.
So, the t***h is Yes keep the government shut down as the author suggests. It will weed out the chaff. I had been furloughed several times in my career. It was difficult. However, if I had been off work long enough I would possibly have followed my actual dream instead of having on the invisible handcuffs of future retirement.
redpill wrote:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/smoke-out-resistance/
As a retired federal employee (Forest Service), I concur with the author.
History: I joined the federal workforce because I was already vested in the military and got preference for employment. (Note at a time when affirmative action nearly blocked me from getting any other job. My two degrees meant nothing until I got on the prefered military roster.) When I started at the Economic Crop Service (or something like that), I was gungho. I was going to make a difference. One day I opened a door to an ajoining office. There I found a fellow sleeping at his desk. I asked about it. I was told that he was going to retire in 6 months and that there was nothing that could be done about his behaviour. I was appalled. I stated to myself that I would NEVER become that type of dead weight on the government. He did retire and was given a pillow so that he would not hurt himself when he fell asleep and hit his head on the desk.... d********g....
...Life goes on. I joined the Forest Service as a programmer. I felt my work was beneficial to the more efficient development of roads for forest logging. (That issue can be debated of course). After many years and better products becoming available commercially, I was reassigned to Information Techniologies (again something like that) where I eventually ended up helping to track the efficiencies of other employees and trying to get help desks etc to high performing standards.
...What a rube. One day I asked my supervisor as to how they were using my reports. I was told they were not...yet. I asked how would they be used. No answer. At that point, I realized I had become useless. I decided to retire. After looking at the retirement pay scale, I decided to stay one more year ... Yes I had sold out. I had become that employee I dispised way back 30+ years earlier.
So, the t***h is Yes keep the government shut down as the author suggests. It will weed out the chaff. I had been furloughed several times in my career. It was difficult. However, if I had been off work long enough I would possibly have followed my actual dream instead of having on the invisible handcuffs of future retirement.
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Sorry. It could be SO good if everyone really tried to do their best and it meant something but somebody always drops the ball.
well said, most of them do a 2 cents of a job, take the post office for an example, i put a letter in the mailbox raise the f**g, he doesn't take the letter he always just pile up my mail on the top of the letter, and regardless how often you see another black postman, or a post woman, they all do the same lousy job, they know they will not be fired, so they just don't care!
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