Time to fire 30% of public employees

[Coronita]

Rule #1: You can’t expect everyone to have the same level of commitment.

Corollary to Rule #1: Everyone can’t expect the same compensation for different levels of work.

Rule #2: If you are really more diligent and efficient than your peers and aren’t compensated for it, find another position for which you are.

Corollary to Rule #2: Don’t ask for a raise you don’t deserve, otherwise you’ll get it so you stop your complaining, but you’ll be the first to be on the chopping block.

Rule #3: In a recession, good workers find they are asked to do more work with equal pay

Corollary to Rule #3: Poor workers will be unemployed.

Corollary#2 to Rule #3: In a recession, surviving(employment) is more important than getting ahead (raise) (didn’t someone post this at the business level from a Sequoia Capital slide deck?)

Be prepared to :

(1) work more to replace your coworkers that got canned

(2) ensure you are working on something with the largest impact, not something that is replaceable

(3) make sure your work is well known across the management ladders (plural, because you don’t know if one ladder or the other will survive).

(4) don’t f*** up what you promised to deliver.

(5) don’t let someone steal credit for the work you created (because it could get vicious)

Rule #4: respect your youthful colleagues (fresh grads). These folks, most likely will be your future bosses.

[LuckyInOC]

So TB, how do you explain Californication…
(We are getting screwed or what)

[quote=TheBreeze]It’s going to take a while for Obama to shrink government to a rational size given the enormity which it grew while Bush was President and the Republicans were in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Hopefully Obama can inspire state and local governments to shrink also.

IT’S GOING TO BE AN OBAMA NATION, BABY! SO LONG BIG-SPENDING, WAR-MONGERING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING REPUBLICANS! DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE GOD SPLIT YOU! YEE-HAW!

[/quote]

How long has the Dems been in charge in California.
Boy, I just love my big surplus, budget-balanced, low tax, limited Calif. Government… its getting better every day…

Just can’t wait for the Federal version.

Can you provide the source where Obama states he will ‘shrink’ the overall government?

Lucky In OC

[LuckyInOC]

So TB, how do you explain Californication…
(We are getting screwed or what)

[quote=TheBreeze]It’s going to take a while for Obama to shrink government to a rational size given the enormity which it grew while Bush was President and the Republicans were in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Hopefully Obama can inspire state and local governments to shrink also.

IT’S GOING TO BE AN OBAMA NATION, BABY! SO LONG BIG-SPENDING, WAR-MONGERING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING REPUBLICANS! DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE GOD SPLIT YOU! YEE-HAW!

[/quote]

How long has the Dems been in charge in California.
Boy, I just love my big surplus, budget-balanced, low tax, limited Calif. Government… its getting better every day…

Just can’t wait for the Federal version.

Can you provide the source where Obama states he will ‘shrink’ the overall government?

Lucky In OC

[LuckyInOC]

So TB, how do you explain Californication…
(We are getting screwed or what)

[quote=TheBreeze]It’s going to take a while for Obama to shrink government to a rational size given the enormity which it grew while Bush was President and the Republicans were in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Hopefully Obama can inspire state and local governments to shrink also.

IT’S GOING TO BE AN OBAMA NATION, BABY! SO LONG BIG-SPENDING, WAR-MONGERING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING REPUBLICANS! DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE GOD SPLIT YOU! YEE-HAW!

[/quote]

How long has the Dems been in charge in California.
Boy, I just love my big surplus, budget-balanced, low tax, limited Calif. Government… its getting better every day…

Just can’t wait for the Federal version.

Can you provide the source where Obama states he will ‘shrink’ the overall government?

Lucky In OC

[LuckyInOC]

So TB, how do you explain Californication…
(We are getting screwed or what)

[quote=TheBreeze]It’s going to take a while for Obama to shrink government to a rational size given the enormity which it grew while Bush was President and the Republicans were in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Hopefully Obama can inspire state and local governments to shrink also.

IT’S GOING TO BE AN OBAMA NATION, BABY! SO LONG BIG-SPENDING, WAR-MONGERING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING REPUBLICANS! DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE GOD SPLIT YOU! YEE-HAW!

[/quote]

How long has the Dems been in charge in California.
Boy, I just love my big surplus, budget-balanced, low tax, limited Calif. Government… its getting better every day…

Just can’t wait for the Federal version.

Can you provide the source where Obama states he will ‘shrink’ the overall government?

Lucky In OC

[LuckyInOC]

So TB, how do you explain Californication…
(We are getting screwed or what)

[quote=TheBreeze]It’s going to take a while for Obama to shrink government to a rational size given the enormity which it grew while Bush was President and the Republicans were in control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Hopefully Obama can inspire state and local governments to shrink also.

IT’S GOING TO BE AN OBAMA NATION, BABY! SO LONG BIG-SPENDING, WAR-MONGERING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING REPUBLICANS! DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE GOD SPLIT YOU! YEE-HAW!

[/quote]

How long has the Dems been in charge in California.
Boy, I just love my big surplus, budget-balanced, low tax, limited Calif. Government… its getting better every day…

Just can’t wait for the Federal version.

Can you provide the source where Obama states he will ‘shrink’ the overall government?

Lucky In OC

[scaredyclassic]

there was a recent study comparing the private bar v. federal public defender. the private bar failed in every measure in terms of “production” for clients, longer sentences, longer to get a resolution etc, general efficiency. the private sector in that arena is full of bluster and absolutely ridiculous. report is available online. public defenders on average are so far superior to the average criminal defense lawyer. the public is ill-informed and believes public defenders (free government lawyers) are worthless. there was also an interesting study published in the wsj many years ago that found that government lawyers are, on average, less attractive that their private counterparts.

[scaredyclassic]

there was a recent study comparing the private bar v. federal public defender. the private bar failed in every measure in terms of “production” for clients, longer sentences, longer to get a resolution etc, general efficiency. the private sector in that arena is full of bluster and absolutely ridiculous. report is available online. public defenders on average are so far superior to the average criminal defense lawyer. the public is ill-informed and believes public defenders (free government lawyers) are worthless. there was also an interesting study published in the wsj many years ago that found that government lawyers are, on average, less attractive that their private counterparts.

[scaredyclassic]

there was a recent study comparing the private bar v. federal public defender. the private bar failed in every measure in terms of “production” for clients, longer sentences, longer to get a resolution etc, general efficiency. the private sector in that arena is full of bluster and absolutely ridiculous. report is available online. public defenders on average are so far superior to the average criminal defense lawyer. the public is ill-informed and believes public defenders (free government lawyers) are worthless. there was also an interesting study published in the wsj many years ago that found that government lawyers are, on average, less attractive that their private counterparts.

[scaredyclassic]

there was a recent study comparing the private bar v. federal public defender. the private bar failed in every measure in terms of “production” for clients, longer sentences, longer to get a resolution etc, general efficiency. the private sector in that arena is full of bluster and absolutely ridiculous. report is available online. public defenders on average are so far superior to the average criminal defense lawyer. the public is ill-informed and believes public defenders (free government lawyers) are worthless. there was also an interesting study published in the wsj many years ago that found that government lawyers are, on average, less attractive that their private counterparts.

[scaredyclassic]

there was a recent study comparing the private bar v. federal public defender. the private bar failed in every measure in terms of “production” for clients, longer sentences, longer to get a resolution etc, general efficiency. the private sector in that arena is full of bluster and absolutely ridiculous. report is available online. public defenders on average are so far superior to the average criminal defense lawyer. the public is ill-informed and believes public defenders (free government lawyers) are worthless. there was also an interesting study published in the wsj many years ago that found that government lawyers are, on average, less attractive that their private counterparts.

[kewp]

Just a comment that it was public employees that defeated the Germans in Europe during WWII.

Whats the private-sector equivalent of that?

[kewp]

Just a comment that it was public employees that defeated the Germans in Europe during WWII.

Whats the private-sector equivalent of that?

[kewp]

Just a comment that it was public employees that defeated the Germans in Europe during WWII.

Whats the private-sector equivalent of that?

[kewp]

Just a comment that it was public employees that defeated the Germans in Europe during WWII.

Whats the private-sector equivalent of that?

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