I know so many who over the years, have occupied a seat in judges offices, clerks offices, even, yes, ELECTED offices that have done NOTHING but sit on their asses. Some have openly gloated about what a cakewalk the job is or how primo that retirement will be from working in 3 counties over the years. Bitch! That’s MY money. Used to not speak up. My new middle name is belligerent, it won’t go unsaid again….
When I was younger, I worked briefly as a state government employee. The extreme majority of people there were absolute leeches.
One manager lady was supposed to pass out criminal case files to parole officers to be processed. She had two years of files piled up in her closet. She did not get fired as a result. All of the people that obviously should have known this all along (and surely did), including judges, did not care.
It was a seven-hour workday. Most played FreeCell for hours until I automated the removal of all games. They would line up to clock out and huff and puff like they barely withstood the day’s “hard” work.
I learned a lot about human nature in a short time. Those of us that try hard always because we have a soul. The rest of the soulless “people” will do enough work to keep their positions which takes maybe an hour or two a week.
Those types will work very hard, though, to avoid allowing anything approaching meritocracy or analytics to measure work output.
i worked 8 years at the county. they hired me because they were two years behind and couldn't catch up. i caught them up in six months (not bragging, just my work ethic). they sat around all damn day talking and not doing their jobs. i was called a brown noser because i worked and didn't want to engage in their stupid conversations.
to me sitting around all day doing nothing makes the day go so much longer. and this is just the county level of incompetence.
Yes, I worked in government also, for a very long time. It takes dedication and a commitment to the people (who we serve) that should be a prime mover of employees DOING their job. Not the pension and not the salary. Most people go into government work for the security, then they find that it doesn't take much work to get a pension and health benefits. Something that only governments offer, for the most part, today.
I agree with what you are saying and more of government "service" needs to be based on meritocracy, rather than you are who, related to who, and needless to say NO DEI should be involved.
I know so many who over the years, have occupied a seat in judges offices, clerks offices, even, yes, ELECTED offices that have done NOTHING but sit on their asses. Some have openly gloated about what a cakewalk the job is or how primo that retirement will be from working in 3 counties over the years. Bitch! That’s MY money. Used to not speak up. My new middle name is belligerent, it won’t go unsaid again….
When I was younger, I worked briefly as a state government employee. The extreme majority of people there were absolute leeches.
One manager lady was supposed to pass out criminal case files to parole officers to be processed. She had two years of files piled up in her closet. She did not get fired as a result. All of the people that obviously should have known this all along (and surely did), including judges, did not care.
It was a seven-hour workday. Most played FreeCell for hours until I automated the removal of all games. They would line up to clock out and huff and puff like they barely withstood the day’s “hard” work.
I learned a lot about human nature in a short time. Those of us that try hard always because we have a soul. The rest of the soulless “people” will do enough work to keep their positions which takes maybe an hour or two a week.
Those types will work very hard, though, to avoid allowing anything approaching meritocracy or analytics to measure work output.
i worked 8 years at the county. they hired me because they were two years behind and couldn't catch up. i caught them up in six months (not bragging, just my work ethic). they sat around all damn day talking and not doing their jobs. i was called a brown noser because i worked and didn't want to engage in their stupid conversations.
to me sitting around all day doing nothing makes the day go so much longer. and this is just the county level of incompetence.
Yes, I worked in government also, for a very long time. It takes dedication and a commitment to the people (who we serve) that should be a prime mover of employees DOING their job. Not the pension and not the salary. Most people go into government work for the security, then they find that it doesn't take much work to get a pension and health benefits. Something that only governments offer, for the most part, today. I agree with what you are saying and more of government "service" needs to be based on meritocracy, rather than you are who, related to who, and needless to say NO DEI should be involved.
If they are corrupted, pick litters the rest of their lives.
If not you…than who?