It is not just Education. I think it is in every branch of government.
“Dave Eggers reports on the groundbreaking science work being done at the famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and so on.”
While JPL is owned and funded by NASA, it is managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and its employees are technically Caltech employees.
I know a few government employees that were fired for cause. Don’t want to give too many details, but one that comes to mind management managed to get rid of but couldn’t (a two pointer). Then she turned on the union and started threatening them. When the union starts filing unfair labor practices complaints about an employee that management wants to get rid of, good things can happen.
It's their fault. Once covid was on its way out, they should have returned to office ASAP. They failed to do that.
It’s damn near impossible to fire a federal employee but not impossible. You can go the documented route but that takes forever. I found it was easier to make their life miserable and found that they’d quit or move somewhere else but giving a bad recommendation usually helped on the latter.
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For every good federal bureaucrat, there are 10 seat warmers drawing a fat check for doing basically nothing.
"Effective tomorrow morning, every Federal agency has a 10% reduction in their budget. That 10% will be immediately applied to the Federal deficit in an attempt to slow the runaway spending by Congress. If agency directors find they cannot provide the same, or higher, levels of service with this reduced budget, I will find a replacement who can. Have a nice day."
I used to live in northern Virginia and teach in FCPS. There are not enough decades left or paper available for me to list everything wrong there. ... Starting with the bloated, arrogant, agenda driven bureaucracy to the sanctuary encrusted status of the non English speaking illegals. I retired and moved. Best decision of my life!
Reference for later.
DEI never taught the idiots anything about accountability.
When I was transferred to another work section, I worked my butt off and they appreciated it. But I was talking to an enlisted member and they agreed with me that there were too many workers in their department, and not enough work for them all to remain busy 8 hours a day like they were supposed to. They even went so far to say that if four of those workers were fired they could easily pick up the work and get it done in short order.
So yes, there is bloat in the system that needs to be excised. But yes, there are those who work hard.
And yes, I used the words "they, their" to protect their identity and gender because that person is very trustworthy and honest.
Probably for the first time ever in their lives.
Suck it up, guys.
That’s real life.
It’s not impossible, it’s a lack of will.
I was hoping for deeper cuts. I hope this is just the beginning.
K-12 failure has been neglected for decades. Way past do for much needed MAJOR reforms.
My son was on a robotics team in high school that was sponsored by a government agency. We used some unused warehouse space on an Army base as the workshop. All of the other coaches were civilian army employees. Good guys and all very good at what they did with important jobs in the national security realm.
During a government shutdown, they were all complaining about their forced vacation, (for which they would eventually be paid)
I very strongly reminded them why we even knew each other. I was one of very few private sector people on the coaching staff and only lived in the state because I had lost my job if eighteen years during a reorganization. I had to uproot and move my family 600 miles, live apart from them for eight months until we could sell the house, take what was essentially a lateral move yet pay for two households on that as sole breadwinner.
They had job where this happened on a regular basis and if they weren’t prepared to go a couple weeks without a paycheck, they needed to reexamine their lives and spending priorities.
That shut them right up.