John H. wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:39:24 -0400, BAR wrote:

Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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Have you ever tried to fire a government employee?


Who gave them this protection??
Protection? Protection for whom? Why does the government have to employ
idiots and lazy slobs? If you can't do the job then you should leave and
if you won't leave you shoud be fired. Why does the taxpayer have to
subsidize stupid lazy people?

We hade pretty good protection at the Crown Corp where I worked until 1996
when bad times forced the union to accept weaknd employee protection in a
new collective agreement. I felt we should have fought it tooth & nail.
Protection again? You should hold your job as long as you are
satisfactorily performing it or until your job is no longer needed by
your employer.

I worked for the US government and I know how people are gotten rid of
in government organizations. The Peter Principle comes into play.

Currently I am in an "at will employment" situation. You should never be
guaranteed a job whether in private industry or government.

Bert, have you ever heard of the AFGE? I had a steward for said union
working for me once. She did almost no government work, as she was always
defending someone's rights to do nothing on the job.

My government work ended over 26 years ago. The hardest working people
were the Wage Grade guys who delivered our bulk supplies, computer
paper, cards and tapes. There were some account's that were hard working
too.

I tried for well over a year to fire a statistician who didn't know what a
summation symbol meant. After a year of meetings, letters, threats, etc.,
the Commanding General backed down and moved her to another job.

We had a guy who was promoted form a GS-5 to a GS-7. His position with
us only went to GS-5 and there was a GS-7 position my boss found and
strongly encouraged the guy to apply for. We got more work done without
him.

I worked with some pretty good statisticians doing work on grain, cotton
and stockyards inspections. These guys were great thinkers.