How in the hell is a city employee, worth more that a Productive side employee?? and How was this allowed to happen?
“How in the hell is a city employee, worth more than a Productive side employee?? and How was this allowed to happen?”
In the commercial environment somebody is always looking at the bottom line. If I put so much as one hour of overhead on my timecard my boss would call me up and ask what it was for. Often, I’d be told to take it off. That means either making up the time on my time or mischarging. I always made it up on my time as mischarging to a federal contract is a federal crime.
I had a conversation with a state worker friend. When personal computer word processors became available the company I was working for laid off the typing pool that month. Hundreds of women were gone in 30 days. The state, on the other hand, just kept the typing pool on until they retired or eventually found other work in the state. Some of them, he said, sat and read books for two or three years.
THAT is the difference. A private worker MUST pay his way. A state worker isn’t expected to be productive; just part of the voting and management empire(s).
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