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to the welfare recipient the social worker looks like this.
to the social worker who has tried to get the client to do something with their life for the last 12 years the client looks like this
btw its most lazy not most laziest.
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Generally the DMV is awful but the last time I went there (a week ago) the employees were actually quite pleasant and despite the huge mass of people, it didn't take TOO long.
I'm guessing with the economy how it is, they can't act like jerks because there are plenty of people who would be willing to work at the DMV.
Yes and no, its just like everywhere else. I have worked for two gov. agencies and didn't really have a chance to "slack off" since I was (an am in the agency I am in now) ALWAYS busy, either meeting the public face to face or getting my paperwork done (with deadlines). In my current job if I were to become lazy work would pile up.
I don't have experience working in a gov.office job where you don't meet the public though btw so I dont know what that is like.
In fact I would say Social Services worker in the gov. are the most busy and overworked because of the ammount of people they see on a daily basis. The first agency I worked for was the social security administration and it was always packed lol.
The government should be only using the lowest bidder in the interest of saving tax dollars.
Choosing the lowest bidder only works well if it is a commoditized product, which is rare for a government contract.
It's just like when you remodel your house. If you always go with the lowest bidder, you often end up with the lowest quality and least reliable contracter. If you have to pay to someone else to fix it, it doesn't you or the taxpayers any money.
A company that offers quality products, quality service, has special expertise, and a strong reputation, is always able to garner premium pricing in the market. There are some contracts where getting it done right the first time is way more important than saving say 10%.
I've worked in both types of environments, and honestly I saw a correlation between the responsibilities of the office and the level of effort. In one, it was an office with lower-level federal employees who basically just had to put info into databases all day. Nice people, but the lunches were often longer than the allotted 1/2 hour, they spent a lot of time gossiping, and yet they were out the door the second their 8.5 hours was up for the day. The second office I worked in was more policy-making. Usually people worked 8-6 but longer if the project required it. The more senior people regularly worked even longer. People in the latter aren't lazy as they were all career-oriented and wanted to move up. So it's not too different from the private sector in which people who want to move up will work hard whereas those who don't really care will stay where they are.
I worked for a government agency and I think it depends on their responsibilities in the department. Some of the lower level employees had time to be lazy because they didn't have enough to do so they would sssstretch the work out for the day. I didn't have time to be lazy. I had deadlines and if they weren't meet I was accountable.
I think government agencies are like any other company with lazy folks......They are everywhere.
The DMV is always busy so they don't have time to be lazy. They are rude because they have too much work to do with the least amount of employees to do it. Not saying they should be rude but stress and rushing gets to everyone eventually.
It must depend on which departments you're referring to... because I've worked in a few city/county libraries (which is a govt job), and don't recall encountering anyone truly lazy. I guess it's the nature of our job, since you really CAN'T be lazy in a public library - too many patrons waiting for help, and too much stuff that has to get done every day. I'm not sure if you all realize this, but library patrons LOVE to complain about every little thing, so we really had to be "on our game." So most of my co-workers were extremely hard-working, dedicated, and darned good at their jobs. Weird, huh?
Only thing I noticed that could constitute "laziness," was how some workers freaked out if they had to stay 5 minutes late - since you don't get overtime (and often don't even get paid) for staying beyond your scheduled hours. But on the flip-side, there were also many who stayed late & never complained... I usually worked late every day, and was never paid a nickel for that time.
I believe it depends-some of my family worked for the city ( retired now) and I know they worked ALL the time...my aunt works for the federal government and she is always working..however, dealing with other parts of the government I truly see lazy people ( DMV). I believe the reason for this is it was thought once you work for the government you have a job for life-I think this tide is turning because that is no longer the case...
I've seen my fair share of lazy people in the private sector that is for sure
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