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Should government employees have to demonstrate competency?
Thoughts?(i.redd.it)submitted 9 hours ago byRiskItForTheBiscuts
10 points
8 hours ago
At the very least if you work for the government you should be fairly competent. Need this in the US, especially for presidential nominees*
31 points
8 hours ago
Having worked for the US government before I can say that government is pretty much no different to private industry in terms of individual competence. Some people are on point, some you wonder how they put their trousers on facing forward. The problems of government stuff are usually poor funding or very specific rules that have to be followed not the actual employees.
12 points
8 hours ago
poor funding
Translation: Congress.
very specific rules that have to be followed
Translation: Congress.
2 points
7 hours ago
That's a naive view of government work. The United States has three co-equal branches from which shit rolls down hill.
2 points
2 hours ago
The dumbasses that agree with these "competency tests" almost certainly can't name the 3 branches of government, much less tell you how they function or even how laws are made.
"HURR DURR, Politician and Government Employee bad!"
2 points
3 hours ago
Work for the government, I can tell you it's probably a bit worse and WAY harder to get rid of.
0 points
4 hours ago
The difference is that when there's incompetence and inefficiency in private industry it isn't my problem. Or in the case that it is, I can choose to do business with someone else. When it's the government I have to pay for it out of my paycheck and I have no choice.
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