Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismissals for unacceptable work are lost on appeal because of faulty procedure. Recalls an official in the Federal Energy Administration who tried to get rid of an incompetent employee: "It was a steady string of affidavits and appeals and hearings. You'd have thought I was the one they were trying to fire." After six months, the official gave up in disgust, and the subordinate remained on the job. "The fellow finally died," says the manager. "I guess you'd say that was the only decision...
...employee cannot be fired, what about shifting him out of the department? A request for such a transfer must be submitted to the Civil Service Commission, where it often sinks out of sight. To get rid of incompetents, managers steer them to what are called "turkey farms," offices where nothing much is required and little damage can be done. The bureaucracy is studded with these farms, which a HUD analyst claims can be spotted on sight. "Just walk down the halls," he says. "You'll see lots of zombies...
...never seemed happy there. "She was an outdoors nut like myself," says Kelly, and in those days a suntan did not help. A California girl was tagged, she says. "You'd go to New York, and Eileen Ford would look you up and down and say, 'My God, get rid of that blonde hair, make your skirt longer, and tone down...
When asked what was present before the origin of the universe, Weinberg said, "The belief that there was anything before time zero is a common misapprehension of which I am sure physics will rid us someday...
...without notice." Nixon did not destroy his tapes because at first he felt he would never have to give them up and later he thought they could be used to discredit John Dean. Haldeman flatly denies Nixon's Frost-show claim that he once told Haldeman to get rid of the tapes...