Posted on 01/14/2019 8:53:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.
Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed, and can never return to its previous form.
The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.
On an average day roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them, and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.
Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position, some do this in the same position for more than a decade.
They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands; administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.
Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process. Then there are the 5 percent with moxy (career managers). At any given time they can change, clarify or add to the process — even to distort or block policy counsel for the president.
IF Trump lays off 20%”””
I meant 25%...sorry
Then I humbly tell them that I became an economist because I didn't quite have the math skills to become an engineer, LOL!
5% of people are highly competent and motivated, 15% are good at their jobs and carry the load, and the rest 80% are just skating by (the article references this). It’s the same theory as “ if you want something to get done, ask a busy person to do it “. In life these are not always true, but they are more often than not.
In the private sector, as you probably know, shared assistants are popular. The one I use also works with three other supervisor level people. Also, in the private sector, most supervisor level people are also expected to do actual work. In my case, about 3-4 times as much actual work as supervisory duties.
I worked with government cockroaches and feel the same. Smoke them out. There are some good employees but most are carried and carried and carried and haven’t produced jack in 20 years.
These people could’ve saved enough money along the way for “a rainy day” to hold them over for a few weeks.
If they’re having trouble now, maybe they’ll have no choice but to go find REAL jobs instead of being on the gravy train funded by We The People.
Start with the 3 big Es: Education, energy and environment!
Depends on the industry. I’ve always looked upon it as:
20% of your clients will be needy at any given time, while
80% are on autopilot. If those 20% are always the same, time to get rid of them...
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Mmmmmmmm....they all sound like Obama holdovers, burrowed into the system, with hefty pensions to look forward to.
End civil service, return to the spoils system.
That’s another variation on the same theme. The 80-20 rule applies if you are only dividing your group into two parts; the 80-15-5 rule works better if there groups are more appropriate.
I fear that all the light bulbs in the public's head have already gone off.
;)
EXCEPT:
Those DNCNews faxes go both directions.
Consider the word “Gravitas”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0LCTl3o2kY
Last month I taught a class to the City of Los Angeles. It was an IT class, only about 25 people.
However, I was informed there are 100,000 city of LA employees.
100,000!
I still can’t believe it. That’s 20 times as many people as there is in my whole town.
Work flows to the competent.
If you don’t like some of the work you are getting, you need to become less competent in those areas.
That was truly one Bad Ass Marine.
Bravo!!
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