Re: 10 questions

Question #1. If a president takes the oath of office and swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States, then (repeatedly) breaks that oath, should he step down?

I don't think we've had anyone since Grover Cleveland who isn't guilty of this crime.

I can list the violations by Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, etc. etc. etc.

but y'all don't want to hear the truth about somebody in your party.

You Republicans will easily agree on Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton as being guilty of this high crime, then loudly disagree when I bring up facts about your guys (Bush, Reagan, etc.)

Democrats do the exact same thing for their side.

Everybody is only concerned with being on the winning side. It doesn't matter if your candidate lies, cheats, and breaks his oath of office. Y'all don't care.

Americans are guilty of selling out their values in order to win. Do you REALLY think that these people are going to keep their promises?

If so, I have a bridge 4 sale

Re: 10 questions

Retired USPS, my agency has been understaffed for years. People have retired or left for other jobs because we were under a hiring freeze and nobody could get promoted. NSPS has made a lot of people leave for agencies that don't have NSPS. Now that we can hire people, we have a hard time recruiting new people.

None of the work has gone away, and those of us who are left are running ourselves ragged. It our case, it's so much work, so few employees.

Re: 10 questions

Sorry to break the news to you but the performanance for pay programs that have been tried and are currently being tried are not, being kind, very good. The are performance programs basically in name only. One of the many problems associated with these programs is that too many people think they have the "right" one so they keep changing the intent, approach and measurement tools. Plus, they are generally developed with little to no employee input and implemented, again with little to no employee input. This, among other things, dooms the programs for failure from the "get go." As for your comment about "too little work and too many employees" - maybe it was true at you agency but it certainly was at mine. We continually asked our employees to do more with less and they generally did.

Re: 10 questions

This is for the Contract Specialist DOD, people that stand around visiting, out side smoking, net surfing or just whinning about having so much to do that they are over worked and under paid. In the 26 years of my Federal service I have never seen or heard so much complaining about having too much to do and not enough people, or time in which to do it. If one is truly "over worked" they would not have the time for all the extra circular BS that goes on in "every" agency. In almost every case we are tryly overpaid and underworked.

Re: Liberl Bias

Maybe we could start by eliminating the budget for that conservative's agency.

Re: Liberl Bias

Congratulations on being the first commentor to ever accuse me of having a liberal bias. Everyone, please note!

Re: Liberl Bias

It doesn't denote liberal preference. Expanding the role of government into a different arena or continuing it in a non-traditional arena might be liberal, but this isn't. Also, it's perhaps fitting to find out who may be "liberal".

Re: Liberl Bias

Conservative? Do you mean like "W" who squandered away the surpluses that were being built up under a liberal like Clinton.

Re: Liberl Bias

Clinton did not do anything to build a surplus. Just because clinton was standing there with his thumb up his butt (or someone else’s) doesn’t mean he deserves any credit. He only did what he was forced to do by the backlash elected congress. Billary wanted to spend every dollar plus some.

Re: Liberl Bias

Bank Examiner is making a classic mistake.. associating everything Republicans do with conservatism. Domestic spending rose under the Bush administration, that was because his administration was approaching spending with a somewhat liberal policy. In other words, sometimes Republicans do act like liberals, this was one of those cases.

It should also be noted that some of the financial issues of the last eight years were because of the recession that started in the last year of the Clinton administration and made worse by the attack in Nov. 01.

Re: Retention Issues

Sorry, secretary, but a degree does not guarantee the possession of knowledge to perform a particular job. I can't count the number of "educated" people who don't seem to have the common sense to perform their duties. Of course, time in grade doesn't necessarily guarantee that possession either, but more often than not, a longer time in grade has allowed the applicant the time to acquire the knowledge needed to perform the duties to a higher degree of quality than an "educated" person who just walked in the door.

Re: Retention Issues

I totally disagree with you "Secretary". Having a degree does not, I repeat, does not determine whether you can do the job or not. It is experience and a lot of us have a vast amount that we have obtained over the years by working hard and learning the ropes. Just like the candidates running for office, you should know something about the job you are applying for. Lots of people have degrees and cant tie their shoes. I want to vote for someone who knows what he or she is going to do to help this country. We are in a mess and no one can predict what the future holds, however, have an idea of what your priorities are and once elected, do what you said. My question would be, "Convince me you are looking out for my welfare and future".

Re: Retention Issues

Please let me retire before you get rid of time in grade. That is the only raise some federal workers get in the political system some federal workers works in today agency (NSPS will make it worst). It's not about performance, it's about who you know!

Re: Retention Issues

Secretary didn't say that a person should be hired solely because of a degree, just that one should not be unfairly held back from applying for and getting a position for which one is qualified. I have been prevented due to TIG from applying for many positions for which I would have been qualified - my application has been returned with, "You are qualifeid for this position but I can not refer your name due to time in grade." The old "foot-in-the-door" thing tends to work to an employee's disadvantage in the feds, but you don't know that until it's too late.