BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! Tell me another. And yes, I've seen it on the gov side. I've worked both and there are no angels in this discussion.
You are right about the COR though. 100% on that one and I saw that as a contractor and now as government.
I'm not sure that it has.
I see now you aren't in the extreme "if they are at home they can be fired crowd" but that crowd exists. DoW did a very poor job of identifying who should be fired earlier this year. Early retirement/ separation got us numbers "the head shed" wanted, but it didn't do anything meaningful except hemorrhage talent. If you look at USC...129, 125, something like that you see that cuts to DoW are supposed to be done after a study. That study was pencil-whipped this year. There's no way it was completed and approved in the few weeks' time while doing an accurate assessment of who to cut and where. Regardless...
I've said we need to cut people, I'm gov and agree with your NIMBY statement, and I've even said you can cut positions in my shop. I've also stated that we need to change processes and requirements because without those changes cutting personnel is frankly stupid. We can do more with less, but the systems in place do not allow that. If the administration wants to make a real and lasting change in the workforce, to better the country, to give us this "lethality" we keep hearing about, we need to start with how we're doing business. We need to revamp the how before we revamp the who.
We can make cuts, we should make cuts, but chopping people and saying we're good is very myopic. I think we're closer on this than we realize, we're maybe talking past one another?
