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Originally Posted by SF18C
Beef...you premise falls apart as soon as you said fire Govt works. The Govt Unions and Merit Protection Boards make this damn near impossible. I have fired three lazy sombitches (GS-13, 9 and 7) since I have been at my current job, (2 ½ years). Firing someone can itself be a full time job! I probably spent more man-hours documenting, counseling and working with the various (please don’t fire anyone) agencies then actually doing my real job.
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During the 2000 Census, I worked as the Ass't Manager for Field Operations of the East Valley, AZ Local Census Office. Even though the jobs were classified as "Temporary - Intermittent", it was a pain if you actually had to let someone go due to malfeasance of some kind. I was submitting D-308s (pay records) for two years after I'd ceased actual work for time spent responding to EEOC filings.
I once had a telephone interview regarding a Crew Leader I'd let go for disrupting a meeting, failing to follow instructions, and not following Census procedures. (He was a fellow Irishman and had once been a friend.) Of course, he filed. During the interview, the EEOC compliance officer asked me if I had a comment on the complainant saying that I'd used 'thuggery' in ejecting him from the meeting.
I said that I was relieved, since at first I'd thought he was accusing me of buggery. The compliance officer failed to laugh... but wrote it down.
I swore then, as did my LCO Manager (who'd worked for Maricopa County for 27 years before retiring), that I'd never work for "the Feds" again.