> I dunno...just seems like the pendulum has swung entirely too far > in one direction.
I have a cousin who works for the Department of the Interior in D.C. and he has told numerous horror stories of how difficult it is to get rid of people that need to be gotten rid of, regardless of the reason (poor performers, people simply not doing their jobs, people who are consistently rude, show up late, leave early, take three hour lunch breaks, etc.) Apparently there is a feeling within a lot of federal agencies that their job is a right regardless of how poorly they perform and a culture of using loopholes and bureaucracy to keep from getting fired has become somewhat pervasive. The government constantly has to defend itself against wrongful termination lawsuits, so they have to compile all of those reports and go through layers of committees to fire anyone regardless of the reason just so they have a sure-fire defense in the event the former employee comes back to sue to lost wages and reinstatement. There are a lot of specialized, reasonable, hard-working people in government, but unfortunately there is a subset of lazy, self-righteous assholes with a strong sense of entitlement who will make every excuse as to why the government is trying to fire them and will blame everyone except their own poor performance or behavior and will fight seemingly to the death to hang on to their position. If only they put that same effort and energy into actually doing a good job that layer of bureaucracy wouldn't be needed. -Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340698 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
