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I’M A SENIOR TRUMP OFFICIAL, AND I HOPE A LONG SHUTDOWN SMOKES OUT THE RESISTANCE
The Daily Caller ^
| :00 AM 01/14/2019
| Senior Trump Official
Posted on 01/14/2019 8:53:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: ridesthemiles
IF Trump lays off 20%”””
I meant 25%...sorry
To: akalinin
Pareto distributions do not always work out that neatly, but they usually come pretty close. As I like to remind the engineers in our plant, Pareto was an economist, not an engineer.
Then I humbly tell them that I became an economist because I didn't quite have the math skills to become an engineer, LOL!
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posted on
01/14/2019 1:19:35 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: akalinin
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.
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posted on
01/14/2019 1:20:44 PM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: ridesthemiles
According to Pareto Distribution (my post #37), it would be technically possible to cut 80%. Although 60% would probably be ideal since 25% of the 80% could probably be retrained for useful assistant work (making copies, filing, etc.) to improve the efficiency of the 20% who do most of the actual work.
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.
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posted on
01/14/2019 1:28:01 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: SmokingJoe
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.
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posted on
01/14/2019 1:35:32 PM PST
by
LouisianaJoanof Arc
(The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets. Ronald Reagan 1984)
To: SmokingJoe
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.
To: SmokingJoe
As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the presidents next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.Start with the 3 big Es: Education, energy and environment!
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posted on
01/14/2019 2:29:54 PM PST
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Vigilanteman; akalinin
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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posted on
01/14/2019 3:05:50 PM PST
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...
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posted on
01/14/2019 4:17:18 PM PST
by
bitt
(forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
To: All
80 percent of govt workers feel no pressure to produce results. If they dont feel like doing what they are told, they dont. Why would they? We cant 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. Mmmmmmmm....they all sound like Obama holdovers, burrowed into the system, with hefty pensions to look forward to.
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posted on
01/14/2019 4:36:39 PM PST
by
Liz
(Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: SmokingJoe
End civil service, return to the spoils system.
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posted on
01/14/2019 4:50:54 PM PST
by
Impy
(I have no virtue to signal.)
To: nicollo
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.
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posted on
01/14/2019 6:53:28 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Lockbox
"I cant wait for the light bulb in the publics head to go off when they realize that they do not need Big Government. Then the Tax Savings from Smaller Government light bulb goes off......"I fear that all the light bulbs in the public's head have already gone off.
;)
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posted on
01/14/2019 7:09:48 PM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; red-dawg
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posted on
01/14/2019 7:15:56 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(I can always count on some FReeper to paint a dark cloud above the silver lining. --Moonman62)
To: vette6387
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.
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posted on
01/14/2019 7:20:51 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(I can always count on some FReeper to paint a dark cloud above the silver lining. --Moonman62)
To: VTenigma
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.
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posted on
01/14/2019 7:24:05 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: PeterPrinciple
That was truly one Bad Ass Marine.
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posted on
01/14/2019 9:26:24 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: SmokingJoe
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posted on
01/15/2019 10:37:32 AM PST
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...
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posted on
01/25/2019 11:52:44 AM PST
by
bitt
(forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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