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Inability To Assimilate

August 22, 2010 bulldozer00 Leave a comment

In this Federal Computer Week magazine blog post, the author laments about the inability to hire talented people into the government borg:

“The supervisors here are sycophants who are only interested in their careers.”

“My experience is (more or less) a third of folks (management and labor) are amazing and functional well beyond pay and expectations. Another third are limited, work-reward clock-punchers. The last third are untrainable and unfireable.”

“I’ve seen one too many occasions of “hiring teams” not hiring the best qualified but hiring friends that don’t meet the job requirements. “

“The federal human resources processes do not necessarily match skills and education with job positions. “

“We have more layers of management and more keep getting added without adding any workers.”

“There are contracting personnel put in jobs who have not a clue about true contracting processes. These individual are put in position because of favoritism.”

“Most middle-level managers want to demonstrate they are in control.”

Of course, the statements above only apply to government bloat-ocracies, no?

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Recruitment

December 29, 2009 bulldozer00 Leave a comment

Surprisingly, in spite of my relentlessly continuous rants against a sea of CCHs, BMs, and STSJs as far as the eye can see, I’ve been contacted by a handful of recruiters probing into my availability for jumping ship. Either they don’t know this blog exists and they haven’t read any of my blasphemous blog posts, or they have read some of them and they still think I can help their clients make money. The former is most likely, but if it’s the latter, then I’m stunned and I hope their clients have the same 21st century mindset as they do.

Since I’m very happy where I am, I will only consider those proposals that satisfy the following requirements. Of course, they’re presented as a bland, linear, 1970’s list of “shalls”.

The potential employer shall (R-1) offer me 2X my current 6 figure salary
The potential employer shall (R-2) offer me an opportunity to work on a vast array of interesting new product developments or existing product enhancements. I reserve the right to decide what “interesting” means
The potential employer shall (R-3) supply me with all the tools I need to do my job and allow me to work from home 90% of the time.
The potential employer shall (R-4) pay all expenses for me to travel to and from the employer’s home base if the distance between my house and the home base is greater than 20 miles.
The potential employer shall (R-5) entrust me with an unlimited training budget to allow me to continuously probe, sense, cut through the camouflage, and evaluate the applicability of new software technologies to the employer’s product portfolio.
For the sole reason of getting people to listen more closely to what I have to say on matters within my scope of knowledge and expertise, the employer shall (R-6) endow me with some kind of BFT. More than one title would be preferable because it may be the tie-breaker amongst multiple, simultaneous employment offers.

What do you think? Outrageously arrogant and full of hubris? Reasonable and practical? Let me know if you think I should shit-can this post and hope that no internet archive crawlers get a hold of it. D’oh!