Friday, July 22, 2011

At 15 Federal Agencies, Death More Common Than Job Loss

Maybe they are the most professional, hard working, successful, productive working group of all time anywhere?

No?

Is that a smirk I see?

USA TODAY found that nearly 60% of firings occur in the first two years of employment, mostly workers on probation and outside the federal job protection system. Blue-collar workers are twice as likely to be fired as white-collar employees. The federal government’s 12,700 food preparation workers had the highest rate of getting fired last year — 2.5%.

White-collar federal workers have almost total job security after a few years on the job. Last year, the government fired none of its 3,000 meteorologists, 2,500 health insurance administrators, 1,000 optometrists, 800 historians or 500 industrial property managers.

The nearly half-million federal employees earning $100,000 or more enjoyed a 99.82% job security rate in 2010. Only 27 of 35,000 federal attorneys were fired last year. None was laid off. Death claimed 33.

Job security actually represents one of the chief advantages that public sector workers enjoy over their private sector counterparts, a fact noted by the Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk last year:

Civil service rules make it prohibitively difficult to fire federal employees for bad performance once they pass their probationary period—one year on the job. Most federal employees who perform poorly never get fired. They keep their jobs unless their supervisor works through an arduous process of exhaustively documenting their performance and working through a complex appeal process.

In my mind, FYI, servicemen and women stand FAR OUTSIDE all these considerations.

There is some good news however, one day, apparently, the federal govt will employ every one of us, who will administer the pay and benefits of every one of us.

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2 comments:

Always On Watch said...

There is some good news however, one day, apparently, the federal govt will employ every one of us, who will administer the pay and benefits of every one of us.

That's the direction we're headed.

Instead of collectivization of farms (Stalin), we're watching the collectivization of the American work force. Maybe not in my lifetime, but certainly in the lifetime of those graduating from high school today.

Epaminondas said...

I figure as long as nothing happens outside our borders, and we keep printing money and cost of living raises keeps up with that, and we gradually stop buying things made elsewhere, and we go nowhere and do nothing, and live in govt built housing, and eat govt farm foods,..

THERE'S
NOTHING
TO
WORRY
ABOUT

We will all be about the same, the richest (not in the political class) will make about 5% more than the people who are just on cruise waiting for friday, and grades in school will no longer matter, unless you are the child of someone in the political class (but you will be in a special private school anyway)