What percentage of your co-workers deserved a raise last year?
Factor in that fat guy who pretends to work but really doesn’t, the chick who used every allotted sick day and then couldn’t keep her stories straight and requested bereavement time when her mother died twice last year, the guy who screws up every assignment he’s ever given, the guy who falls asleep in every meeting, the guy who gets drunk at lunch and can’t function in the afternoon, and all the other losers who make your job twice as hard.
Every company has ‘em, but according to a new set of statistics, the federal government doesn’t.
Investors Business Daily has the story of the government’s remarkable workers:
Just 737 federal employees were denied a pay increase in 2009 due to poor job performance, according to information obtained by the Federal Times, a D.C. newspaper for government employees. That’s about one out of every 1,698 workers, or a denial rate of 0.06%.
Believe it or not, that is actually up from recent years, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management.
What the hell. We say you need to work a little harder so all these outstanding government heroes can get bonuses, too. They deserve it.
Source: Investors Business Daily
