Posted on 12/06/2016 1:05:52 PM PST by yetidog
Just how much “due process” for Federal employees is needed?
(Excerpt) Read more at fedsmith.com ...
A guvment job is about as solid guarantee of “employment” you’ll ever see.
Make it the same standard as any corporation.
Federal management is as much or more of a corruption problem than the rank and file. Much of it has been affirmative actioned into position and is all about moving fellow tribal members up the ladder. Even flat out nepotism is ignored.
In my 25 years of federal service, I never even heard of a government employee who was fired for simply not doing his job. When a government employee was fired, it was usually because of a felony conviction.
It was once said that if they ever started firing people for not doing their job, all of us federal employees would be in deep trouble.
I'm a federal employee, and let me tell you, it's worse than anyone can imagine. I've seen downright illegal hiring practices take place to bring in the cronies into high paying positions, while good, honest, hard-working people (like myself) get crapped on and kept in lower paying positions. If anyone wants to know what I've gone through, I'll Freepmail you, but I won't post it here.
Only fired when they run out of places to hide the bodies
Why do they get both union protections AND civil service protections?
Doesn’t that kind of job protection have a monetary value? I would say it’s worth at least 30% of salary to have a job in which one can’t be fired...there pay should be cut accordingly.
*their...
Not all; only about 10 or 12 percent, that holds true for the population in general.
In my 23 years(having been promoted from the ranks) as a supervisor of 84 government employees; my total bag limit was 31 FIRED, 18 demoted, 3 transferred out because I expected them to actually earn their paycheck.
The charges were every thing from excessive tardiness, to taking a bribe, to theft of government property, to soliciting a hooker.
They can be fired; it just takes a lot of work, interviewing involved people, documentation, and unpaid overtime hours to get the case RIGHT & TIGHT.
I developed a reputation for being the only GESTAPO boss they had ever hired.
I could be wrong but I don’t think most government employees are civil service employees anymore. I think they are under FERS...??
That’s just the name for the new retirement system.
As a fairly experienced professional pilot I can't tell if it is the area or a downward trend, but some of the controllers around DC really suck. I flew into at a controlled airfield recently with an observation of 1300 feet overcast 5 miles visibility. When I checked in with tower they said they had some ground fog in the area. It actually turned out to be about 100 feet vertical vis with a bit over 1/4 mile and solid fog.
I'm self-loading freight, not a pilot, so every bit of aviation 'news' I get comes from that site or Simon Hradecky's AvHerald.
That said, why wouldn't FAA personnel transfers to the then-new TSA have been possible?
The real problem with fed employees is that there is no effective evaluation program. Without a track record of bad performance they win reinstatement. Even for conduct violations, you can look at the civil service penalty matrix and it spells out "fire the guy", and they win reinstatement from the labor relations board. There are some really good civil servants, and in some agencies a majority are good at their jobs. The problem is the bad employees are like a case of herpes. You can't get rid of them. The stories are amazing. The negative effects on the good employees are significant.
Many years ago I worked for a State-run enterprise; none of its 'slackers' could be fired, either, and the [mandatory membership] Union would go to bat for the absolute worst offenders. I quit within six months and returned to the private sector.
Happy to accept your take on the FAA-to-TSA 'info' as being unreasonable from a financial standpoint; would now like to ask if you think President Trump will be able to positively redirect the moribund fed.gov bureaucracy and make 'successful job performance' a requirement of retention?
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