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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vought wants to hold federal employees accountable for poor performance. For some federal employees, accountability is an alien concept, which they equate to trauma. However, in the real world (i.e., private sector), accountability is life and nothing new.[/quote]

Having spent more time in private industry that with the Feds, I have found this not to be the case at all. [/quote]

Ditto.  I spent roughly 2 decades in the private sector, including many years at a Fortune 500 company.  I've now been in the federal government for about 3 years.

Merit is _fairly_ recognized and rewarded far more frequently in the government than in the private sector.

WRT "accountability" in the private sector - more often than not, the employee held "accountable" for poor performance is not the one who actually screwed up, but rather the employee who reports to the wrong manager or works on the wrong project or got left holding the bag when everyone else dodged responsibility.  It never happened to me personally, but I saw it happen many times to others.

I came to understand that the high compensation in the private sector is not necessarily because of superior skill or work product, but to balance out the risk of losing your job for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with how well you do your work.

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Absolutely true. 
In the private sector, extroversion and playing the game is conflated with competence, while quieter but highly skilled hard workers are often not rewarded.

I have been extremely successful in the federal government in spite of not fitting that mold, and was able to advance by learning skills on the job, in spite of not having an advanced degree. [/quote]

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