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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get all the defensiveness from the federal government workers. You should be livid about your lazy colleagues.

My DH worked for the federal government for 12 years, and by the end was supervising over 40 folks (although only 4 direct reports). He constantly complained about underachieving folks in his department and how hard it was to do anything about their lack of work ethic or get them fired. Their laziness was extremely unfair to the folks who did work hard. He felt there were only about 40% of folks in his division who were working their full hours. fWIW, his division was largely lawyers and engineers/scientists, so well paid and well educated folks who were just retired in place.

DH went back to private sector, and he believes that the federal government loses a lot of good folks who get tired of carrying the dead weight. Everyone would be better off if those folks were reported.[/quote]

Wait, so you personally have no fed experience right? Also, weren’t 4 direct reports first line supervisors? If so, why was your DH supervised these ppl?[/quote]

PP here - I was actually a contractor for 3 years for the DoD and now work in the non-profit sector. I also supported some terrible and lazy feds when I was a contractor, but my DH was a first line supervisor for 6 years and then division director for 2 years (and normal government employee before that) so I figured he had more perspective. When I was a contractor there was one senior administrative fed who took a nap (with his door wide open) every afternoon. We All liked him so everyone had their own way of waking him up from outside his door so we never embarrassed him by walking in on him and waking him up.

When DH was a first line supervisor he had to spend 2 years trying to get someone fired who was drinking all day on the job and had been for years. He had one employee who got the worst performance ratings and when DH talked to him about it, said he was happy being a “C+ kind of guy”. Both of these folks were highly paid and has graduate degrees. DH has many, many stories like that. I am not making this $hit up, wish I was.

There are certainly good feds, but stupid to think these lazy ones don’t exist. 
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