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Au contraire, it's far too easy to fire people in government for issues that have systemic root causes due to the nature of politics and public pressure. So the
by xxpor 7y ago
Au contraire, it's far too easy to fire people in government for issues that have systemic root causes due to the nature of politics and public pressure. So the poor schmuck who pushed the button gets fired, and that's the end of it. No deeper evaluation or reports on how to prevent the issue from occuring in the future.
This leads to extreme aversion to any risk taking and creates bureaucracy.
This is opposed to the classic stories about junior engineers who lose their companies money, go into the bosses office expecting to be fired, and the boss says "why would we fire you? we just spent $X training you".
- stx 7y agoI see many of these same problems in large companies. Every one just tries to avoid being blamed. Those best at avoiding blame while assigning it to others rise up. Its politics.
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- xxpor 7y agoAnd I would guess that the companies that have "blame" cultures end up doing much worse than companies that have "fixing" cultures.
- michaelkeenan 7y agoThis sounded wrong to me so I googled and according to the first source I found, the layoff and discharge rate is 1.3% in the private sector, and 0.4% across federal, state, and local government. The data come from Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://freebeacon.com/issues/workers-private-sector-3-times-likely-get-fired-govt-workers/ https://freebeacon.com/issues/workers-private-sector-3-times...