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To: Lane3 who wrote (12591)5/10/2002 10:54:49 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
You gave specific examples which do not necessarily tranish those who do things right and well. Although your example about the french translation does not fit the dispute. Translating into french is a political/human rights issue which bears on the prevention of civil war and such minor concerns. Were the translators stupid, unqualified, inefficient, lazy, uneducated or unsuited for the job they were trying to do?

Again, I can testify from personal experience about companies that cost me close to a quarter milliion dollars over the last two years, because they were run like crap except for the issuance of huge salaries and stock options to those who ran the company team...whether or not the board was "related" or "unrelated".

Telling me that you worked in a department where you were able to act a bit like millions of private employees does not make the case that all firefighters are unproductive or that all employees of Enron or Mcdonalds were, or are.

I am sure there are unproductive agencies in the public sphere (in terms of objective value), and unproductive companies in the private sphere (in terms of objective value). This does not mean that either sphere deserves to be slandered or dismissed as unimportant, unproductive, or inefficient.

I worked many years ago for the Federal Government. It was the hardest and most productive work I ever did. I think the public and the private arenas are not that disparate on the front lines.

I can personally give many examples of private companies that were run like -hit. Any public employee who believes he or she got away with under performance, can be countered with an example of one or more from the private sector.

I take it you submitted a performance report annually to Congress and the OMB? Or were you working directly in Government?
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