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The government's hiring process makes this impossible. They are too slow, the people who know what needs to be done are completely separate from the centralize
by JPKab 13y ago
The government's hiring process makes this impossible. They are too slow, the people who know what needs to be done are completely separate from the centralized offices which hire, and therefore the government only hires people based on arbitrary measures including keywords on resume, number of years in x industry, certifications from Craposoft and Orac-ket. They are fucking fantastic at hiring useless middle-management fucks whose only ambition in life is a paycheck and to stop using their brain when they leave the office (at 4:00 or 3:30 pm on a weekday)
Ambitious people leave in droves, because an organization run entirely on "other people's money" always steers towards complacency and lack of accountability, translating to ambitious people who care about delivering on-time being surrounded by people whose kid's softball game takes precedence over leaving customers out in the cold.
Anyone who has EVER dealt with the federal government in any fucking way knows that what you are saying would never work. The laziest people I have ever encountered in my life are in the Federal government. I'm a huge advocate for the environment, and my first dealings with the EPA made me want to cry. They are horrifically lazy at a cultural level. The DoD is fucking awful. Go to a military base at 3:00 PM on a Friday afternoon and watch as a traffic line builds up at the exit gates as the civillian workers go home 2 hours early, EVERY weekend.
- Bahamut 13y agoThere are some hard workers in government - you see many around DC. But I don't disagree that there are some lazy people in government - I have heard much worse about the EPA than you have stated for example. The military is some of the hardest working but criminally underpaid. The whole contracting system is broken - the amount of money government leaks there is criminal.
- JPKab 13y agoMilitary are not criminally underpaid. When you factor in housing benefits, pension, health care, education, etc, the military is a fantastic career option, which is why so many people join it. For a non-college graduate, it is absolutely the best career path you can take in the US. When you get out, you have access to federally subsidized loans that nobody else gets, as well as the ability to have Tricare (ultra cheap health insurance) for the rest of your life. When you consider that less than 10% of active duty military will ever see combat, this is a bargain.