Tariffs...what to make of them.

stb222 said:
Im sure part of this tactic is to force people to quit and in that process will lose more good employees. I work with people from the federal highway administration, its been like a mass exodus from there this year.
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yea same for us, we lost 10% of our workforce (give or take) due to this bs. and then everything is slipping right and spending has been frozen and travel and hiring something bad is going to happen due to the reduction in headcount and when it does and hiring opens up they wont be able to replace with 'the best and brightest' which is the repeated claim as to who they want doing the work.

ebarker9 said:
Yes.


See also the deferred resignation program ("fork in the road") which took money from government programs to pay people not to work for ~6-9 months. Efficiency!
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yea bc that was such a well defined and laid out program (/sarcasm)
 
lol at the Oval Office press conference today. Trump says he going to lower drug prices and one of the speakers drops like a stone. Then on the hill it came out that there was no asbestos abatement for the non union workers when they knocked down part of the White House….. the worker’s president 🙄
 
shrpshtr325 said:
yea same for us, we lost 10% of our workforce (give or take) due to this bs. and then everything is slipping right and spending has been frozen and travel and hiring something bad is going to happen due to the reduction in headcount and when it does and hiring opens up they wont be able to replace with 'the best and brightest' which is the repeated claim as to who they want doing the work.


yea bc that was such a well defined and laid out program (/sarcasm)
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Most of my teammates live in the DC area, so naturally a good number of them work for the Govt in some way or another. Granted, most of them are older than I am, so they have been on shrinking timeline for a while, but the DOGE "cuts" have caused an early retirement brain-drain that will take years to recover from. My mother also worked for the Govt for over 30 years (but she retired over a decade ago).

Nobody works for the Govt for the pay which is generally far less than similar positions in the private industry... they take the job and stay there because it's stable. Remove that stability and the incentive to work for the Govt drops a lot.

Something else I've heard/read about recently... one of the big selling points for all of this was to remove red tape from the system which "should" require less workers in a given dept. The problem is none of that has happened. The amount of work that needs to be done hasn't changed. What has changed is now there are less workers to do the tasks that still need to get done. There are definitely a lot of BS processes that could be eliminated. Any Govt worker will agree with that. But actually doing that takes time. Time the current administration doesn't want to invest in.

Believe it or not, the Govt is capable of making processing improvements. NFA Tax Stamps processing for suppressors, for example. It used to be if you wanted to buy a suppressor, the NFA tax stamp process could take months. But a few years ago, the process was streamlined dramatically and now I've heard of folks buying a suppressor and getting the approval within a few days. The debate over the validity of the NFA Tax Stamp process is a different subject. At this time, the laws are what they are (although I have heard rumors of suppressors and SBRs getting removed from the NFA registries). The best we can hope for now is for the rules to be implemented as quickly and evenly as possible. And for the most part, Govt workers try to do that.
 
Ian F said:
Something else I've heard/read about recently... one of the big selling points for all of this was to remove red tape from the system which "should" require less workers in a given dept. The problem is none of that has happened. The amount of work that needs to be done hasn't changed. What has changed is now there are less workers to do the tasks that still need to get done. There are definitely a lot of BS processes that could be eliminated. Any Govt worker will agree with that. But actually doing that takes time. Time the current administration doesn't want to invest in.
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If anything, there's been a substantial increase in BS processes. Things that used to be routine have become complicated and painful. Things that could be easily handled at the "working" level (and by "working", I'm referring to experienced professionals with advanced degrees and decades of experience) now requires further elevation to higher levels of leadership, new processes for routing and approval, constant changes to guidelines, delays etc. There's so, so much room for improvement that would allow people to be more focused on actually performing the jobs that they were hired to do, but that is almost the exact opposite of what I've seen.
 
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