Hiring After the Baby-Boom Brain Drain (Federal Government)

The Washington Times ^ | 5/08/08 | Stephen Barr

[BBell]

Contractors do a much better job than the feds do, and cheaper. .....and you can fire or replace them easily.

[VOA]

Perfect time to streamline these agencies.

Amen to that.

While I was in California during 1995-2005, I have to admit the initiatives
of the California (and Fed?) environmental "cops" did seem to clean
up the air in Los Angeles a goodly bit (no more small black particles settling
on my car when it was parked for a couple of day).

But I never heard anyone saying "Well, the state environmental
agency has triumphed in cleaning up the environment. And now about
20-30% of them workers have succeeded in 'working themselves out
of a job'".

We certainly don't need as many state environ. workers now that
they've got the atmosphere scrubbed and we're all driving
a Prius or some other hybrid vehicle!

[VOA]

Congress also has made changes to civil service hiring law, allowing
agencies to make hiring offers more quickly and
to increase the number of qualified applicants whom managers can
consider for a job.

So I guess they've finally moved beyond the uncertainty of the old days.
And probably codified the importance of bust measurements and cup size.

[vpintheak]

Well that argument goes both ways. I am suffering first hand because it is almost impossible to find a decent employee that will stick around. My company has hired 2 people in the last year that have worked for just a little while and took off. It isn’t that bad of a place to work, trust me. There has to be just a little bit of loyalty to the company for the employees too. Personally speaking, these jerks have pretty much doubled my work load, and I work 50+ hours a week as it is.

[SFC Chromey]

This is one way to reduce government... cut by osmosis! Maybe we can get this hydra back under control after all.

[gura]

You’re right on the first part, but it’s harder to get rid of them because _someone_ has to do the work at those places.