Have a relative that works for DARPA as a high level manager. Has an incompetent employee he inherited after previous boss retired. This employee is totally inept at her job but it would take about 3-5 years to get her fired using the system they have. By then she'll be retired, so she gets crap assignments until then!!!
Government employees can look at porn all day on government property (taxpayer’s property) and still not get fired.
Shortly after I arrived we started a project to move the Command Headquarters. The Military could have moved in less than a month (equipment included). Not so the civilians. They were less than helpful. This caused me to write my version of one of Murphy's Laws.
LonePalm's Law of Military/Civilian Reorganization: The number of days necessary to reorganize any Military/Civilian Organization is equal to the square of the civilians involved.
I also created a Rube Goldberg equation to project the number of days necessary to fire a federal government employee.
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No they're not — just make their job a $0 salaried volunteer position
and watch them run away.
You are totally correct. However, if this Boss could manage to charge these people with a crime then they would be gone. One would be “theft of time”, fraud(receipt of something of value), If sex was underage then they would be facing prison time. This stupid lady doesn’t want to know. Her underlings don’t want to know.
While it is very true you can’t get rid of gov’t employees easily, when they want someone gone they just do it. They don’t worry about the civil end. It is as simple as they approve of this behavior.