My pops worked for the Department of Energy for twenty-five years before switching to the private sector and doubling his pay. There were guys at the DOE who would do crossword puzzles in the morning, eat lunch, go sit on the toilet until the afternoon and go home. One guy would nap in his cubicle until the end of the day. Nobody could ever get fired.
I worked in commercial power generation for my entire career. One of my friends who traveled around the industry as a consultant once took a job for a year working at a DOE facility. He was astonished at the low productivity expectations there. He told me they gave him at least a month to get a task done that facilities in the private sector would have expected him to complete in a day or two. He also said that when he finished a task and turned it in, it would take weeks before he would be given more work unless he went to ask for it.
Thumbs up for quoting Ryan Bingham
Now let’s contemplate on how this work habit is employed by the ever growing and wasteful federal government
My pops worked for the Department of Energy for twenty-five years before switching to the private sector and doubling his pay. There were guys at the DOE who would do crossword puzzles in the morning, eat lunch, go sit on the toilet until the afternoon and go home. One guy would nap in his cubicle until the end of the day. Nobody could ever get fired.
I worked in commercial power generation for my entire career. One of my friends who traveled around the industry as a consultant once took a job for a year working at a DOE facility. He was astonished at the low productivity expectations there. He told me they gave him at least a month to get a task done that facilities in the private sector would have expected him to complete in a day or two. He also said that when he finished a task and turned it in, it would take weeks before he would be given more work unless he went to ask for it.
Sounds like the principal of a school I once worked at.