Posted on 11/02/2016 4:05:24 AM PDT by expat_panama
Big Government: A new survey finds that more than a third of federal workers are threatening to quit their jobs should Donald Trump prevail in the presidential election. If only that were true.
A survey of federal employees by the Government Business Council and GovExec.com found that 14% said they would "definitely" consider quitting their jobs if Trump wins the election on Nov. 8, another 13% said they might consider it. Just 65% said they'd stay on at their jobs no matter who wins.
Whatever Trump's many flaws, that's an awfully tempting reason to cast a ballot for him...
...federal workers are paid far more than their private sector counterparts...
...impossible to fire a federal worker, no matter what the reason, as various government audits have shown.
One Government Accountability Office report, for example, found that 99.5% of federal workers got a "fully successful" rating or above. More than a third got a rating of "outstanding." Even if they do horrible things...
...the government spent more than $3 billion in just two years for what amounted to paid vacations. It found that hundreds of federal workers had gotten a year or more of paid leave.
Two employees implicated in the Veterans Health Administration scandal — which involved bureaucratic attempts to hide chronic, and at times deadly, delays...
...got new jobs at the VA.
So don't believe that any of these workers will actually quit in disgust should Trump win. Most will no doubt swallow their pride and go back to doing what they've been doing, which is next to nothing.
That isn't to say that a President Trump couldn't force these employees to live up to their promise by cutting the federal workforce by 35%, while demanding that the rest actually do their jobs.
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Another unintended endorsement for Trump.There are really quite a lot of them.
Just think of all those jobs vacant and ready for new grateful employees!!!
All the more reason to vote Trump.
When will you volunteer for military duty? If it’s so cushy? ESAD.
Good. Then, maybe they’ll move out of northern Virginia back to the ratholes from whence they came.
Oh geez!! Seriously you can NOT believe the military or the Border patrol are actually included in the 35%.
Obviously the writer has no experience with Federal Employees.
Terrific! The government needs to shrink anyway.
Trump has said he will reduce gov’t employee numbers through attrition, in other words not replace those who leave for whatever reason. If some for ideology reasons decide they can not stay in a Trump administration, it will be a quick, perfect, ‘voluntary’ attrition event. Most of these departures will occur in heavy regulatory agencies such as the EPA, DOT, DOA, etc. The military and law enforcement agencies will be invigorated by a Trump win and no one will leave. Matter of fact, their numbers will increase.
“a lot of statements that can run into trouble”
Yep like this one:
“impossible to fire a federal worker, no matter what the reason, as various government audits have shown”
Impossible? No not impossible....difficult yes but not impossible.
35 % to Quit. Saves time to fire around 40 % more of these worthless leechs.
The vast majority of uniformed members would not “quit” if Trump won, they cannot quit, nor would they.
We also never thought of ourselves as “federal” employees. The federal workers who will quit will be the jerk offs in the NIH and EPA, etc, who use their time looking at porn and buying stuff off of Amazon.
I think that’ll save on unemployment benefits when Trump fires their worthless asses.
Yeah, a voluntary 1/3 RIF? Look, you don’t have to keep selling me on Trump, I’m already going to vote for him.
Those workers are right. Under Trump, federal work under Trump will be MUCH MORE ACCOUNTABLE and the gravy train will end. They might as well get out early, while there are still some private sector dummies willing to hire them.
Government is too big.
Let’s fire 50% and cut the pay of whoever is left by another 50%.
Close the post office, it’s obsolete.
They’d have to tell us because we’d never miss them. What a great cost saver, though.
If department of education, EPA, and the dept of energy are defunded....is that not a reduction?
Need to do something about non congress critters writing laws through regulation and enforcement.
That isn’t to say that a President Trump couldn’t force these employees to live up to their promise by cutting the federal workforce by 35%, while demanding that the rest actually do their jobs.
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Yes. That! But with that being said, I could do with a larger number.
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