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2019-12-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
AP reports Beltway bureaucrats ‘quitting rather than moving to the U.S. west'
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-15 10:22|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Move more divisions of government. Let them quit! They will have to get real jobs or move out of D.C.
Up until Trump, DC has been a company town with only one employer so if gov group A let you go gov group B would hire you. This is now BROKEN!
Posted by 3dc 2019-12-15 10:34||   2019-12-15 10:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Good, let'em stay on the coast.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-15 10:55||   2019-12-15 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 They will stay in their perceived comfort zone, under siege. Starbucks to lament the turn of events.
Posted by Dale 2019-12-15 11:06||   2019-12-15 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe this is what Trump intended too happen. Another win
Posted by chris 2019-12-15 12:03||   2019-12-15 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 ...most of the agency’s 10,000 employees are already in field offices outside Washington.

It sounds like the proposed transfers are upper management types. While there is no doubt a great deal of institutional knowledge in their heads, clearing them out will allow for promotions from the ranks. If 85% of 300 senior managers quit, and guessing they are paid $200,000/year each on average, that would be a savings of $51 million per year in salaries — plus about the same again in benefits.

Not significant in terms of the total budget for government staffing, but senior staffers have been quitting without replacement since President Trump took the oath of office — remember the horror of all those desks in the State Department sitting empty, week after week?
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-15 12:13||   2019-12-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 This ones for you TW; https://www.reddit.com/r/CulturalLayer/comments/easstb/12000_year_old_site_discovered_in_connecticut/
Posted by Dale 2019-12-15 12:33||   2019-12-15 12:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #5: clearing them out..... will allow for promotions from the ranks.

If it's all the same to everyone here, I'll just refer to it is anadministrative flush.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-15 12:42||   2019-12-15 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 ...its not like some federal 'employees' have never been subject to reduction in force. [Although I notice when it has happened, the top end of the pyramid seems not to suffer much if anything at all]
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-15 13:00||   2019-12-15 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9 This ones for you TW;

Such an exciting find, Dale - thank you for thinking of me!
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-15 13:39||   2019-12-15 13:39|| Front Page Top

#10 While there is no doubt a great deal of institutional knowledge in their heads

True, although there's the question of whether it is substantive knowledge, or just about knowing who processes the Form 3000-003a vs. who knows how to fill out Form 5450-003.
Posted by charger 2019-12-15 14:14||   2019-12-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Best restaurants in DC. A reliable call girl service. Contacts in Washington PD & FBI. Staff like this?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-15 14:18||   2019-12-15 14:18|| Front Page Top

#12 The North Slope of Alaska needs more bureaucrats.
Posted by Snusotle the Lesser4227 2019-12-15 14:36||   2019-12-15 14:36|| Front Page Top

#13 The Marianas Trench needs more bureaucrats.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-12-15 16:08||   2019-12-15 16:08|| Front Page Top

#14 That's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-15 18:08||   2019-12-15 18:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Lets hope they all stay in DC and don't retire outside the beltway.
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-12-15 18:50||   2019-12-15 18:50|| Front Page Top

#16 ?Move or Quit. I like it
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-15 19:51||   2019-12-15 19:51|| Front Page Top

#17 Not significant in terms of the total budget for government staffing but it might b nice to get them off of the future pension gravy train and maybe a building or two can be emptied out and sold/rented out.

Won't solve it but all movement in the right direction.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-15 21:07||   2019-12-15 21:07|| Front Page Top

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