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[quote=Anonymous]As a former fed in various agencies and supervisory positions - and as somebody with a variety of private sector experience both prior to and following my decade as a fed - there is a much higher tolerance for low performance and misbehavior in federal agencies. That's not to condemn all feds and I get why it's intentionally difficult to dismiss federal employees, but the stereotypes about lazy feds has more than a kernel of truth. If you're grinding away in the private sector, constantly worried about downsizing, a new boss not liking you, or just instability in general, the exaggerated narrative of the federal employee is going to be really frustrating. They could easily address this by making it easier for individual supervisors to dismiss low performers, but 1) that could reintroduce the spoils system and 2) that would remove the convenient scapegoat that the political class likes to have to blame for their ineptitude.[/quote]
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