“low performers”
How much if a POS grifting leech do you have to be to be rated low performers among government employees?
That bar must be mighty low.
A good place to start would be the double dipper genera. In the DOD civilian employee pool, there are lots of retired military officers who do very little if anything at all.
That is a place to start.
Those government workers still aren’t getting the full private sector/corporate treatment. Let them deal with wholesale layoffs at a moment’s notice or perhaps an entire business units or the business itself closes.
Perhaps decades ago when public sector salaries were lower than the private sector, the tradeoff of greater security for the lower pay was reasonable.
Now, with H1B and offshoring of private sector jobs, lowering wages, coupled with more lucrative public sector salaries, that tradeoff is no longer reasonable.
That sounds great until you need to fill a vacant position and you have no competing candidates. With no competing candidates, each vacancy leads to a direct promotion, regardless of how competent the only candidate is. Worse, if the only candidate takes another position, internally or externally (or retires), you're now reaching two levels below and repeating that all the way down the vacancy chain.
Since you can't simply find experienced candidates "on the street", having some redundancy is the only way to have a pool of skilled staff available for open positions.
Defense One is part of the Atlantic galaxy of left-wing publications. The Atlantic’s default posture is to defend the left-wing apparatchiks installed by Obama, attack new weapon systems. It opposed most of the major hardware programs that performed well during Desert Storm. Its closeted true objective might be summarized as “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber”.
Low performers should definitely be gone.
If there is any “unacceptable performance”, why are they still there to be fired?
I was an engineering contractor supporting an Army Project Officer, it seemed about half my job was unf-ing DAC screwups. Think they could go with 30-40% cuts.
For a few years I worked at an enterprise-level job where many civilians baked difficulties into systems for job security purposes. That needs to end.
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Department of War
Is what it’s named
“ Hegseth appears to be cultivating a leadership style not dissimilar to that of a company-grade infantry officer, the pinnacle of his leadership experience in uniform, micromanaging each process rather than creating strategy to streamline solving problems, Burger said.”
Well, Miss Virginia, if the DEI infantry grade officers would be doing their jobs the right way their leader wouldn’t have to show them the proper way.
Unlike her sorry, make work job, leadership starts at the top and permeates all of the structure below.
EC
During my 30 years at Intel, we had 4 house cleanings.
Eventually we had to start getting rid of the good people.
All the bad were long gone.
I left in 2014 and never regret leaving.
going after “low performers.
I am more concerned about obsolete job descriptions. In 1966-67 as a personnel clerk in Vietnam we had WWII procedures that made no sense at all.
From what I hear, many of the current procedures are relics from the dark ages. They are slow, time consuming and add no value but inhibit a quick response to fast moving events.
going after “low performers.
I am more concerned about obsolete job descriptions. In 1966-67 as a personnel clerk in Vietnam we had WWII procedures that made no sense at all.
From what I hear, many of the current procedures are relics from the dark ages. They are slow, time consuming and add no value but inhibit a quick response to fast moving events.