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You're hiring at a pittance rate and then when no one wants to work for your company throwing red flags in the interview stage, and rather then asking "should w

• ghaff 4y ago
  Except the public sector, especially at the local level, only has a pot of money as big as the voters approve. You can pay more for fewer people (and it's often hard to layoff people) or pay less for more. So you can decide to pay more but that means hiring fewer people and doing fewer things (like filling in potholes) or staffing a DMV location. Private companies have constraints too of course but generally have more flexibility in dealing with them--which can of course be to decide that some job isn't worth it if they have to pay $X to fill it. We do this all the time at a personal level. While there are some service people who I would pretty much have to grin and bear it. There are plenty of other things I'd just let go, do it myself, etc.
  • rdtwo 4y ago
    The right thing is to just do less at the right staffing levels. Trying to do the same amount causes everything to grind to a halt. Most managers end up doing the latter because slowing things down against organizational inertia is really hard