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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I work in systems for the federal government. Until 2003 I was a programmer and ever since I've been supervising programmers. And I can't get rid of the slackers. I've had this guy that reads the newspaper all day. I had another guy that would disappear for hours at a time. I had another guy that played games on his computer all day. I give these guys lousy performance appraisals.. one guy threw it back in my face and said "Watcha gonna do? Fire me? Ha!" And it's true... the union will go to the wall to protect the slacker a-holes, but won't lift a finger to help me get the work done. I had one ass-wipe that purposefully broke our security regulations and I had the proof. Yet the director said that it would take a full year of my time in front of tribunals, of paperwork, of testimony in front of lawyers to get rid of this guy, so it just wasn't cost effective. So yes, unions **** me off. Yet I would never leave this job BECAUSE of my union.
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You do work for the government
