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That's right. Almost all government agencies are covered
by "civil service" provisions. Why? To prevent government managers from
hiring their friends, relatives, etc., who are unqualified for the job.
Also, almost all have standards of "progressive discipline" to ensure that
disciplinary actions, including firings, are for legitimate purposes and are
taken after due process. Unless a crime has been committed, it is almost
impossible to fire someone for a "first offense". Much harder than in the
private sector.
Again, that is a law designed to protect the public
dollar. Adds to inefficiency and to poor performance by employees in the
public sector, but that is because we want the system that way.
In short, a lot of what people complain about in government is
designed into the system on purpose. Don't like it? Then direct your
elected representatives to change it. Meanwhile, government managers are
bound to obey the law. BTW, most of them hate it as much as you do.
And be sure you would prefer the alternative.
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----- Original Message -----
<DIV
>From:
Kent
Rollins
To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:55
PM
Subject: Re: government efficiency or
lack thereof [RT] sp500/nasdaq top
I work for a company that produces software
development tools for PDA's and cellphones. My boss recently went
on a tour to talk to customers about how they are using our
products.
One of the places he went was a software
company in Texas that is essentially dedicated to government
projects. They have 3 20-story buildings filled with mostly
programmers. One project they are using our software on is for the Texas
version of "Child Protective Services". It seems that some of the "child
welfare agents" weren't going out to visit the children as often as they
should and sometimes not at all. Instead, they were filling out false
reports on the childrens' status. Some of the children wound up being
hospitalized or dying as a result. So they are now giving the "child
welfare agents" PDA's with built-in cameras and GPS's. The
software will require them to go to specific GPS coordinates and take a
picture of the child in order to file the report.
The first question we had was "Why don't they
fire or even imprison the screw ups?" We've had people in our office
fired for a lot less. But then we aren't
government employees.
Kent Rollins
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From: <A
title=rascal2@xxxxxxxxx href="">Rascal
To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [RT] sp500/nasdaq top
I've worked for both and they are inefficient in different
ways. Government is not as efficient as the private sector.
But, government is designed to be inefficient, because we
want it to be that way. For example, I had to bid out all contractual
work, no matter how small. Very high overhead in developing
specifications and evaluation criteria, putting together committees to review
and rate all bids, etc. We did this to ensure that favoritism was
eliminated (needless to say, this was not the federal government or
Iraq). This was costly and inefficient, but required by law (Your
elected representatives passed that law.) There are similar provisions
in all aspects of government to protect the public dollar. So don't
expect government to have as its highest priority efficiency. It wasn't
designed that way.
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>From:
Bob
To: <A
title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 5:46
AM
Subject: Re: [RT] sp500/nasdaq
top
You're kidding right? Or do you
actually believe this?
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