Originally Posted by
TransWorld
Essentially 100% of governmental jobs are union. They allow poor performance. Ever been to the DMV? Good public school teachers complain it is very difficult to fire bad teachers.
Compare to pilots. A bad pilot is given a chance to retrain. If they fail, they do not continue. Similarly with journeyman construction craft.
Not perfect, but a whole different ballgame than governmental employee bad performers. My dad was in personnel with the federal government. He told me many stories. (Don’t show up for work and still get paid. Show up and do little or nothing work related. Do a shoddy job. Still very hard to fire them.)
Ditto my father. Got pretty high up in the agency he was with.
He quit trying to fire underlings for repeated gross negligence because it just wasn't worth the hassle. Easier to give them a room, some non-toxic playdough, and a salary.
Except for drug use. That was the on thing that could get you fired. Probably not that way anymore.