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On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:18:56 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:06:59 -0800, wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:49:02 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:25:06 -0500, W1TEF
wrote:

In truth, nothing is permanent in life - including life itself, but
the definition has to exist so that some order can be made out of
hiring, firing, replacing labor or workers.

A federal Civil Service worker is about as hard to get rid of as a
tenured professor. There has not been a real RIF (layoff) since the
50s. There have been some reorganizations that eliminated jobs but the
workers simply moved across the street, or in some cases just stayed
where they were and GSA changed the sign on the building. (The Carter
administration was probably the best example of that). A GSA guy I
knew said they were thinking about using thumb screws to mount the
signs because they changed so often.

Completely untrue.

How do you know what a GSA guy told me. I bet you didn't even know
what GSA was without looking it up.
If you are saying it is easy to fire a federal worker you are just
ignorant of the US Civil Service.

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/

It is possible to fire a government worker for stealing or not showing
up but if they are there every day, you can't fire them for
incompetence or goofing off..They just get shuffled off to another
agency if anything happens at all. Usually they just get put back in a
corner and ignored.

Completely untrue.

Again, how the hell do you know about this? How many years have you
worked in federal offices and how many federal worker bees do you
know? I was in DC for 38 years and about half of the people I have
known all my life were federal workers or the kids of federal workers.
It is what they do in that city. I also spent 15 years working in
federal offices, most of the time down where the GS 5-11s work. I am
not going to say the slugs get promoted but they can just sit in a GS
5 or 7 job for years, taking their in grade step raises and do fine.

http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/201...rs-fired-good/