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To: eastexsteve

That kind of situation is to be expected in any organization where bad employees cannot be fired.

I once had a mailman who mixed up the mail in my street. Letters would be delivered to the wrong mailboxes. Usually they were off by one house. Incompetence or laziness more than criminal behavior.

I kept calling the postmaster to complain. Finally he told me, “I keep telling him to be more careful. But that’s all I can do.”


2 posted on 06/08/2025 8:20:50 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again. )
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To: Leaning Right

Good post which illustrates a useful principle:
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
- Napoleon


22 posted on 06/08/2025 8:46:54 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: Leaning Right

‘any organization where bad employees cannot be fired.’

“What good are they (senators) if I can’t fire them?”
Dwight D. Eisenhower


34 posted on 06/08/2025 9:34:51 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Leaning Right

Cliff Clavin!!!


42 posted on 06/08/2025 10:06:44 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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