Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Hound's best offer Date:   5/26/2018 9:19:07 PM

Wix, you can believe anything you wish, but I spent 32 years in the system and I think I have a pretty good handle on what works and what doesn't work about it.   I've lived with it as an employee, a middle manager and a senior manager.  

I have seen various ways over the years that people try to reform civil service and get rid of the "dead wood" that people on the outside seem to think fill the roles.  I can tell you this - you don't get good performance out of people by threats.  You get good performance out of people who feel good about their work and their contributions.  We'll see at the end of a year how many people get fired.  

The govenrment is not industry, and the people that think it can be run like one are always frutstrated when their efforts are not successful.  Ask Don Rumsfeld.  Ask Al Gore among others.  

Trump seems to believe that employment is like his show The Apprentice" where he could say "you're fired" and the only opinion that matters is his.  I sincerely doubt he runs his businesses this way.  it doesn't work in the real world.  

I'm not saying that it isn't a good idea to make the firing system more managable, because it has been unmanagble for years.  While you are making fun of my saying that 80% of people that are fired are reinstated on appeal, it's true, and do you think about how much it costs the taxpayer to have people reinstated?  Back pay, leave and sick leave reinstated, lawyers, civilians to process the case and hearings.  I didn't see anything mentioned about doing away with the Appeals process.  

So you do your little happy dance and you mock what I have to say.  We'll see how this plays out.  Trump can't seem to manage the WH staff, so I don't know how he thinks he can manage the whole government.  It's much easier to fly at 30,000 feet than to fly at the tree tops.