Posted on 07/24/2017 1:48:26 PM PDT by EveningStar
All those vacancies and nobody noticed.
Manage your managers privately but with an iron fist.
You don't get it-- the positions are not vacant, and they can't be vacant unless Congress abolishes the position.
By law, someone must be, say, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs (one of the positions Trump hasn't nominated anyone to). So the office is either being held by an Obama-appointed holdover or, if Trump fires the holdover, the longest-tenured civil servant in the office becomes the Acting Assistant Secretary.
The position is not "unfilled," it's being filled by an ideological enemy of the President.
I see your point, but ... If the AG resigns and the Deputy AG takes over indefinitely, then the head count for the DOJ is reduced by one — right? Because the Deputy AG would have been there anyway.
Not exactly. Both the AG and Deputy AG are statutory positions. So if the Deputy AG becomes Acting AG, someone from the permanent civil service bureaucracy moves up to become Acting Deputy AG. Some other career civil servant moves up to take his place, etc., etc. The total headcount of the Department may be one less, but the vacancy will be at the very bottom, not the top.
“UMMMM you think anyone would work for the administration if this were his management style?”.
Absolutely. Instead of hiring political prima donnas with name recognition, hire professionals who will commit to taking, and executing, orders. Heck just hire ex-military officers many of whom could do circles around most politicians. If they start to fail, fire them immediately and move on. And don’t apologize for it.
This isn’t difficult.
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