How to Shake Up the Bureaucracy? Change the Work Rules.

[confludemocrat]

As federal employees, we're on the road to feudalistic rule by the Wolfies and Enron exec types. People who endlessly screw things up but get promoted will now have their path to total control smoothed for them.

New personnel regulations at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense will dramatically change the way 860,000 workers there are paid, promoted, demoted and disciplined. The plan is to spread the changes throughout all the land of federal government. No more automatic raises. No more simple pass-fail evaluations. No more Job for Life. The unions have taken it on the lip.


While the pay-for-performance changes won't take effect until 2009, workers are getting anxious. They don't know what their life will look like. And knowing what life would look like, after all, was always the point.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5436-2005Mar27.html

[bryant69]

1. We are moving from a meritocracy to a ideocracy

Not an Idiocracy where you are promoted based on your stupidity. I admit it looks like that but in fact in an ideocracy you are promoted for your ability to promote tha party line. In a perfect Republican world all the Democrats would be at the bottom rung while those who toe the party line get access to enormous raises and perks. I don't know if they can make that work but I think they are going to try.

Bryant
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