[spintreebob]

hiring and dismissal rules

A major solution to the deficit is to make the bureaucracy more efficient. These Federal workers shoud be working in the private sector.

[2banana]

Plus affirmative action and quotas

[bert]

TAD orders

You are relieved of your present position and ordered TAD to the office in Chicken, Alaska. On arrival you will find suitable premises for your office and open a line of telephone communications. Internet service will be provided by the US Army

Your expenses will be defrayed in accordance with agency regulations for Alaska per diem.

Dependents are not permitted on this limited assignment

[Rapscallion]

Administration does not know how to clean out the swamp!!!

[Fireone]

One of the biggest mistakes I see, is equating “degrees” with “educated”.
I hired, and fired enough folks with master’s degrees, to learn that over half of them couldn’t handle the daily tasks it takes to operate a small to medium business efficiently.
The were over-schooled, and under educated.

[Fireone]

One of the biggest mistakes I see, is equating “degrees” with “educated”.
I hired, and fired enough folks with master’s degrees, to learn that over half of them couldn’t handle the daily tasks it takes to operate a small to medium business efficiently.
They were over-schooled, and under educated.

[ocrp1982]

Firing, heck, even reassigning a federal worker is nearly impossible under current federal rules.

[lepton]

Unions, plus requisition requirements, lead to a pretty stolid structure.

[9YearLurker]

I am more interested in flexible firing rules, which need to bw used far more often than jiring rules as far as the government is concerned.

[txrefugee]

We definitely need a 10-year moratorium on hiring any Ivy League graduates for federal employment. We have had a stinking surplus of these types for four generations, and they have screwed up the country.

[yldstrk]

The application alone turns a lot of good people away

[rllngrk33]

I was hired as a fed in 2002. It took six months from application to start date. Previous jobs in the private sector took less than 30 days between first call from prospective employer call to start date.

It took us four months to hire someone from another agency (first call to offer acceptance). It took two months to hire from within the agency.

Every time a non-Fed executive starts and promises to run the place more like a business, they run into the brick wall of federal personnel rules and nothing changes much.