Nothing wrong with government workers, some of them are good, some of them are not so good.
They’re people.
Over 50 years in the workforce I’ve been in local government a few of those years, in different cities. There are good workers and there are bad. My observation is that the good ones move on, and the bad ones are glued to the chairs they believe they “own”. The bad ones are protected by the administration because they toe the line, don’t make waves, and don’t question things that are wasteful or make no sense. The good ones try to change things for the better, and that rocks the boat; they will be punished.
My friend worked in the Mayor’s office and assembled packets for City Council. She’d receive documents submitted for review, printed double-sided. She had to take the docs, and RE-print single sided. She had the nerve to ask why, and was told that the Council members might not think to look at the other side of the paper. She asked, “Do they read books?” Not a wise career move. It was “insubordination” and, and she was decreed to have a bad attitude. (A couple months later she quit and found a “real” job in private enterprise.)