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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't expect a profit. I expect efficiency. There is no argument against the proposition that govt should be efficient. It should count everyone for the cheapest cost imaginable. And it should hire the best quality of worker it can find at the best price, with no other considerations. And if it hires badly, it should be able to fire them as quickly as you could fire someone in your employ. Is that too much to ask?
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It's no mystery why many forms of government employment involve both for-cause employment and unionization, because people want their government to be humane and fair even when private employers aren't. But it is a mystery to me at least how these things persist into the modern era, when every commenter at the bottom of every news article on the Internet suggests firing the public employee who is the subject of the article. In other words, I'm surprised that in the era of "that guy should be fired" the proponents of such firing lack the attention span to change the rules to even make it possible.
BTW, after six years in this job I've only once seen a complaint against an employee that DIDN'T put "he should be fired" in the section at the bottom saying "Proposed Solution" or whatever. And that's only because in that case the complainant was a decent human being and also a public employee, so her "proposed solution" was that the employee be counseled and instructed to discontinue the behavior to which she was objecting. I was so shocked I nearly dropped my government-issued mug of coffee.
