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Back in the early COVID days, an airplane with PPE landed in Prague. Responsible agency has been short handed so the staff of national budget oversight agency c
by mordae 3y ago
Back in the early COVID days, an airplane with PPE landed in Prague. Responsible agency has been short handed so the staff of national budget oversight agency came to help in what was a prime example of violation of budgeting discipline and just unloaded the airplane.
I could not stop laughing about that for days. Other ministries were literally excusing themselves since "they were not allocated funds to deal with the pandemic and had other matters to addend to" and "doing job of another organization would be a violation of budget discipline". And then the literal guys responsible for auditing them for such violations just broke the rules and did the right and necessary thing.
In the end, it boils down to a simple rule. If you live in a society where rules outweight the public good and you can get into trouble for doing the right thing the "wrong way", progress grinds to a halt.
- jodrellblank 3y agoOrdinary employees can't choose to break the rules, the boss can, that's ... how everything works?
- ecuaflo 3y agoEveryone working in a functional org needs the autonomy and sense of ownership to make calls when needed.
- perryizgr8 3y agoIn a well-functioning org, every employee should be empowered to not let rules impede progress.
- WJW 3y agoIt's not a problem when "progress" is easily determined. But regulations are famously "written in blood", created after some employee was a little bit too empowered and caused an accident. For example, I'm very happy that employees of the nuclear power plant approval committee don't ignore safety rules even if it does impede the progress of the building process.
- renewiltord 3y agoIsn't that always the case? Government guys in charge of enforcing something always give themselves a pass. Generally considered a perk of the job. E.g. policeman pulls over another person for speeding. Which of following do you think is more likely situation and for policeman to issue a warning and let them go without a ticket: - pulled over person is also cop but not on duty - pulled over person is non-cop
- draw_down 3y ago[dead]