Whoomping Bush and a warning!
I’ve been thinking. I do that once in a while.
At this point in our history, Bush may be exactly what we need. For 200 years, we’ve been saying, “The SYSTEM isn’t perfect, but it’s the best one in the world!. Well, Bush is working hard to uncover all the imperfections that need our attention. He may be the fly in the ointment that goads us into tweaking the system to make sure all kinds of things don’t happen again. Please note, when I say Bush, I point my finger in the general direction of Washington, because I don’t think Bush himself is smart enough to do all the things he’s getting credit/ blame for. By the way, according to my mental credit/blame scorecard, he’s got more blame than credit.
Now , about the latest development. Civil Servants are keeping track of their own time, and the supervisor signs off.
THIS IS A TRAP!
1. It’s bad accounting practice for the person responsible for an asset to keep records for that asset. It encourages misuse of that asset. In this case, the asset is the civil service employee’s time. And I do believe that someone in the upper echelons knows that it’s a bad practice.
THIS IS A TRAP!
2. A short time ago, civil service employees were offered early retirement, at the normal reduced rate, with no incentive to take it. The civil servants I know laughed! Virtually noone was willing to give up his job to cut the government payroll without some kind of financial incentive.
THIS IS A TRAP!
Given these two points, what I think is coming is a no cost cutting of the government payroll, along with charges of fraud, and wholesale firing of anyone caught abusing the “privilege” of keeping his own time card. When enough people are abusing it, there’ll be newspaper articles vilifying civil servants for the rampant undocumented time off, a lot of people fired, and the time keeping done the old way.
Did I say, “This is a trap?”
