I'd suggest that if you are locked in a crapper from the inside, you are probably able, with enough coaching, to figure out how to unlock the door. If not, I'm sure a quick call to 911 will save you before you are reduced to drinking from the toilet. If one guy has the keys to the federal courthouse and all the gun safes, firing him might be a useful lesson in organizational resilience.

I appreciate National Parks as much as the next guy, and I'd be one of the last to gloat over some working-class guy losing his job, but nothing in these two articles makes a case for the continued existence of these lost jobs. Taking reservations for historic homes at Gettysburg sounds like the quintessential contractor operation, likewise, with clearing hiking trails through a National Forest.

The fact is that we are spending too much and getting too little for it. Another point is that if you are unwilling to cut five percent of an agency's workforce in a time of trillion-dollar deficits, you are a monumentally unserious person who should be ignored. //

polyjunkie
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This is a classic passive resistance Strategy: “Let’s get rid of the people most important to the customer, and those a$$holes will HAVE to let us rehire them and keep things the way yhey were.”

The correct solution by the employer is to creatively redeploy employees so that the critical jobs get done first, and customers are served properly. Oh, and fire the manager(s) who couldn’t figure it out.

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