Posted on 08/16/2006 10:32:06 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason
Yet we constantly hear the bureucratic mob kvetching about how badly they're overworked. If half of these people are paid at all, they're getting more than they're worth.
Suggest you tell that to your lawyer.
"they're getting more than they're worth."
Especially the lawyers!
"If half of these people are paid at all, they're getting more than they're worth."
And you base this on what?
But please, please, please tell him that. No need to talk salaries around here.
Ahh the Government Tit - the gift that keeps on giving.
She gets way more than she should too. But at least that's only coming out of MY pocket, and I have a choice about the matter. Bureaucrats are not accountable to anyone and they're paid by robbing taxpayers at gunpoint.
Trick is the federal government hires lawyers for less than the private sector, and for less than you pay them.
The government outsources almost everything below a GS 11 whenever possible nowadays. Go into a federal building and look for people below the age of 40 who work there. Won't be many! Therefore, this study is comparing an organization that's mostly upper management vs. organizations that have the total spectrum.
Not a very accurate comparison.
You are right on that one.
The last place I interviewed with told me, "They would pay me what I was worth."
I replied, "Nobody would work for that!!"
My brother in law feels that if he ever has to go out into the private sector, the best he would do is about 1/3 of what he earns now.
The difference is real.
The servants are now the masters
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This study, among other things. That and the observation I make every time I have to deal with people whose mantra is "It's not my job. You'll have to talk to ___________" And of course, it's not _____________'s job either, or so he tells me when he gets back from his six-week semi-annual vacation to Belize on the taxpayer dime. Or when I walk into the driver's license office and see six windows, five of which are closed and the only open one of which is staffed by a 300-pound black woman with nine-inch-nails and an attitude like Selma Bouvier. Or when I see a dozen city "workers" patching a street by holding down the remaining concretes with their butts while two "supervisors" sit in the truck with the engine running and swap nookie stories.
Then there are the inert legions of desk pilots who infest government palaces everywhere, producing voluminous reports that are carefully annotated, collated, and stored in such a way that they hold doors open.
How did Jefferson describe them? "... swarms ... [who] harrass our people and eat out their substance."
We need a photo of a nursing sow.
What the F#$%????? AVERAGE is double the private sector?
Well, harrumph, this certainly isn't the sort of thing we want going public... we haven't set ourselves up as a priveleged class with higher pay, better benefits, more time off and our own retirement program where we are exempt from Social Security just to have all these damn taxpayers find out about it and muck it up!
I have never heard so many young people tell me that they want to work in some form of government employment. I think its because alot of them see the stress on their parents in the private sector - to hold onto wages and benefits - and they say "the hell with that".
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