Posted on 09/18/2018 2:33:53 PM PDT by grundle
You CAN fire a Federal Employee. The problem is, it takes WORK to do so, and their SUPERVISORS are as lazy as their subordinates, or totally corrupt and complicit like Sessions and Rosenswine.
Reagan fired a boatload of air traffic controllers back in the eighties and he was right to do so.
My father, who was a mail carrier AND a union delegate, said that all federal employees have to abide by “binding arbitration” in their contract negotiations and cannot go on strike like non federal employees. Failure to do so means they can be fired.
So Reagan did.
A post on an earlier thread looked up his salary and he makes $94K a year.
Your thoughts?
Not firing traitorous federal kakistocrats gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
This proves nothing— a bunch of people Obama “should have fired?” How about a list of federal employees who WERE fired?
That’s at best mid
If they can’t immediately fire this pecksniff, he should be permanently rubber roomed. No phone, no PC, no wifi, no personal electronics allowed. Just give him a box of buttons to sort into colors. Dump them all back into the box at the end of the day and have him do it again tomorrow.
I do know that the only way you can lose a federal pension is to commit treason. Otherwise, you can do anything including murder and not lose your pension.
We need to reform the federal personnel system. The permanent bureaucracy was meant to replace the spoils system and to create a professional cadre of non-partisan bureaucrats to have a smooth functioning government.
Approved on January 16, 1883, the Pendleton Act established a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work. Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883.
Since then, the bureaucracy has emerged as the fourth branch of government, powerful and unelected. Federal employees have better benefits and greater job security than the private sector.
Down in the worker-bee world, it’s possible but tough and drawn-out...I managed to get rid of 2 while working as a DOD Civilian....of course, I had 24 years active duty before that so I had the sensibilities and the drive to get rid of scum. One took almost 9 months and the other was out in 6 months.
Not only is is solidly upper-mid, but you said, and I quote, "The guy being interviewed is a low level civil servant." Hence my post.
The highest-paid members of Trump's inner circle make $169K, like Kellyanne Conway and Steve Miller.
An excellent comment, and I totally agree; but I'm stumped as to how it can be reformed now that educaton has been marxisized and deconstructed for the past two or three generations. Many educated people now believe that truth is relative and morality is individual.
Having grown up in the area in the 50s and 60s, I always heard that the Secret Service, as one example. preferred to interview Southerners and Mormons, who could be generally "profiled" to have had a strong moral upbringing. Now, the nuclear famly, the universities and even the churches have been despoiled by leftist activism, many tentacles of which are striving literally to outlaw the commonlaw values that sprang from religious principles. In our only slightly more leftist neighboring nation, Canada, a Christian university has recently had its law school dis-accredited, so that its graduates cannot take the bar exam or practice in Canada. They have also jailed pastors over preaching directly from the scriptures regarding same-sex mating. UK and most of EU have also imposed government over the church.
SCOTUS jurisprudence making a false equivalence between the "Nature's God" of the Declaration and the rights of atheists go back to 1948, and now we are reaping the whirlwind. Without an absolute standard of truth underpinning what we think of as honorable, ethical, or common decency in our actions, we are lost.
He’s a civil servant. Depends on what grade he is assigned there steps in each grade. Nurse practitioners ( not managers) make 120000 plus a year
My point is that someone above called him “low-level”, as if a job paying that much is of little consequence. Granted, many government employees “lean on their shovels” all day, but one imagines that their job descriptions ostensibly require them to perform above “low level” for that kind of money.
Not really
Lame.
You apparently haven’t worked for the feds recently
You’d be wrong.
Well then if you are working for the feds you must be aware of the large number of slackers
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