If you saw this kind of turnover in a private company,
would you think twice about working there?
(Source: @BrookingsInst, https://www.brookings.edu/research/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration/ …)pic.twitter.com/Wf9tAKvLB7
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If you saw this kind of turnover in a private company,
would you think twice about working there?
(Source: @BrookingsInst, https://www.brookings.edu/research/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration/ …)pic.twitter.com/Wf9tAKvLB7
If the best people were leaving, would you join? > [...]Tom Frieden stepped down in January. [O]ne of the most crucial public health positions in the government given the CDC's role in tracking and stopping infectious disease outbreaks in the [US]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/19/nearly-700-vacancies-at-cdc-because-of-trump-administration-hiring-freeze/ …
Do you think perpetually in-flux organizational hierarchies may produce disorder? "The Trump admin is slower to fill jobs and has higher turnover than any administration we have records for..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/its-way-too-many-as-vacancies-pile-up-in-trump-administration-senators-grow-concerned/2019/02/03/c570eb94-24b2-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html …pic.twitter.com/QSDaoS801M
Even if you support the view that the "government should be run like a business" do you think "You're fired! lmao" may work only as reality-TV punchline, and not for managing the resources of a large corporation, let alone an institution as large as the government?pic.twitter.com/kc2UPSDSEJ
Do you think sabotage has systemic consequences? > Many employees have already found new jobs and left the agency. [...] morale at the Washington office has plummeted, mistrust of leadership has grownhttps://www.govexec.com/workforce/2019/12/few-blm-employees-agree-relocate-interior-attempts-ease-pain-those-it-will-fire/161895/ …
By all means, criticize the CDC et al. for their response — especially testing which has been a fucking disaster. But of your criticism includes "derp government agencies derp" it may be worth remembering that chaos damage and starve the beast are both deliberate GOP tactics.
Everything was working exactly as intended. It's just that you don't win the game of chicken with something like a virus. So now we all crash together.
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