Posted on 06/08/2012 10:15:41 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Why do you think they act like cogs in a wheel with no effort to rise higher & get more education, etc?
Once they have passed their 6 month probationary time, they about have to be found dead at their desk to be moved out.
I once worked at the Wisconsin Dept of Highways. We chacked the calculations of bids for road building & repairs for mathematical accuracy. Contracts were bid monthly—at the beginning of the month. Therefore, we worked like mad for 2 weeks and then -—I KID YOU NOT-—read magazines or sat at our desks and KNITTED SOCKS for the rest of the month.
I tolerated it for the 6 months. When I went in to tell them I was moving on—I was told that I was “not State Employee material” because I went slowly bat crap crazy in those 2 idle weeks.
I did learn something, tho. I learned that I could make a pair of wool tall calf length hunting socks—a pair a week—while sitting and watching the days click off. 2 of my old High school classmates liked those hunting socks. I got reminded of such at my 50th reunion 5 years ago.
I am NOT making this up.
It is a good column. It will take Peggy several years, though, to make me forget her crush on Obama in 2008. Used to love her -- always skeptical now.
Peggy, redeem thyself!
I believe you.
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