CHURN? To HE— with churn!
CUT!
The article is about civilian Federal employees soon to be retiring in large numbers, but the head line said something about a “brain drain”.
I don’t see the connection.
I’m a part-time federal employee (Dept of Education)—I’m almost 40 years old in my office (of about 40 people) and I am the second-youngest there, and believe me it is depressing working with people who talk about nothing but retirement.
My coworkers are all in their late 50s, 60s. . .all on their way out, and we’ve been told there will be no rehiring—just contracting out. Which is probably a good thing. Contractors do a much better job than the feds do, and cheaper. ..
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Ask what can you do for each other?
Carolyn
Well, shucks. Maybe we'll just have to make government smaller and ask the private sector to handle more of our daily activities.
For the rest of us, this is not news at all. The Purging (actually, Ethnic Cleansing) has been underway for decades, as semi-competence gives way to feel-good PC.
We could simply do without a full 80% of non-military government employees.
Anyway, with ZERO bottom line to maintain and nearly ZERO accountability, government employees tend towards laziness, inefficiency, low productivity, and incompetence.
If I have just gored any Freeper government employee’s ox, I’m so sorry, but it is what it is. American business over the last two decades have been forced by the marketplace to increase productivity — do more with less — while the bloated government bureaucracies demand MORE and MORE turf and employees, and their employees demand ever-increasing salary, benefits, and a GROWTH PATH for EVERYONE. Fooey on them.
And don’t even get me started about GOVERNMENT UNIONS. Why in the world do GOVERNMENT TROUGH-FEEDERS need a LABOR UNION? I’d like to see a Constitutional amendment PROHIBITING unionization of ANY AND ALL federal employees. And hopefully some states would also get the clue and do the same!
Due to the massive dumbing down of the Imperial Federal Government School System that has taken place over the last 40 or so years, doing a one-for-one replacement of the retiring workers may be difficult.
Perfect time to streamline these agencies.
This is one way to reduce government... cut by osmosis! Maybe we can get this hydra back under control after all.