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...Pentagon calls its new weapon the Civil Servant. Reason: it won't work and can't be fired...
Gore and many others insist that the vast majority of civil servants are competent and willing workers who are endlessly frustrated by the system. By ) making raises and promotions dependent almost entirely on seniority, the system rewards those who timidly follow the rules and gives no incentive to creativity. Managers have no way to reward outstanding work: a brilliant chemist, for example, who has reached the top of the pay scale in her classification can be given a further raise only if she is promoted to a supervisory position -- and that would take her away from her test tubes...
Even her fiercest critics acknowledge her ethical hygiene. Here is a public servant who pays list price for a new car to avoid any charge of getting a sweet deal. In a department under fire for being deeply politicized and ethically challenged, drifting past successive scandals from B.C.C.I. to Iraqgate, employees consider her their best chance at redemption. Reno has, says an observer from Capitol Hill, "established a certain air of integrity that is emanating from that department. You cannot diminish the value of having the head of the Justice Department being recognized nationally for strength, integrity and honesty. That...
...equality and resigned, at least, to financial inequality, but uncertain and unhappy about the vast middle ground of social relations. What we want, or should want, is for financial inequality to pollute social equality as little as possible. Money should buy things, but not people. This is where the "servant problem" arises. There is no solution, but here are a few suggestions...
...this leads to a second suggestion: make domestic service more like < capitalism and less like feudalism. The relationship between customer and supplier is inherently more equal than that between employer and servant. There is no squeamishness involved in taking your clothes to the dry cleaner. If domestic service were generally provided by business firms (ideally, co-ops of the workers themselves) with all the trappings of a business relationship (monthly bills instead of cash on the kitchen table, etc.), the arrangement would be more dignified for both parties. It would also provide household workers some of the benefits -- such...