There's a shitload of systemic rot in the federal government, though.g-man wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:35 am But FAR too many times I’ve seen room-temperature IQ mouth breathers not get fired over a complete inability to do the job because they could just wait for this rotation of leadership to move on. I don’t mean simply sub-par employees... we’re talking full-on oxygen thieves.
I haven't quite seen anyone that bad unless you're talking about IT office gnomes in DC somewhere.
Take a look at this. There's multiple people that have to sign off on travel.
Then there's this gem:
It's from a DHS OIG report.For example, according to one officer, it took up to 30 minutes per
flight to perform research and analysis of passengers for high-volume flights, as
compared to 5 minutes per flight in the legacy mainframe TECS Portal
And this.
You can probably find a lot of stuff like that in just about any OIG website.CBP administered polygraph examinations to applicants who
previously provided disqualifying information on employment
documents or during the pre-test interview. This occurred
because CBP’s process did not stop, and is not sufficient to
prevent, unsuitable applicants from continuing through the
polygraph examination. As a result, we estimated that
between fiscal years 2013 and 2016 CBP spent about $5.1
million completing more than 2,300 polygraphs for
applicants with significant pre-test admissions of
wrongdoing