Congress in action ...

[shrky57]

Congress in action ...


Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said someone may steal from it at night; so they created a night watchman, GS-4 position, and hired a person for the job.

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning division and hired two (2) people, one person to write the instructions (GS-12) and one person to do time studies (GS-11).

Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a quality control (QC) division and hired two (2) people, one (GS-9) to do the studies and one (GS-11) to write the reports.

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created a payroll division with a time keeper (GS-9) and a payroll officer (GS-11), and hired two (2) people.

Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative division and hired three (3) people: an Admin Officer (GM-13), Assistant Admin Officer (GS-13), and a Legal Secretary (GS-8).

Then, one year later, Congress reviewed the operation of the desert scrap yard and said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget. We must cut back overall costs!" So they eliminated the night watchman.

[swamp snorkler]

That's pretty much how it goes.

[Matt G]

Sad but true! Thanks for the post.

[southern151]

Somewhat true...Big difference is, when they realized they were over budget, they would have hired two more admins to figure out why they were over budget and, simply raised their debt ceiling.

[speck-chaser]

Then forced their customers to either buy a piece of junk that they couldn't use, or get fined.

[vittok]

Sad but almost true!! Lol