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  Geez, I can top that one! How about a hiring manager who hires a functionally illiterate individual into a leader position which requires the incumbent to be able to read, analyze and write program assessments? And to direct the efforts of 6 other highly qualified individuals. And who, to educated customers, should be actively marketing the program thru group presentations and other high-visibility marketing activities.

  There were 10 applicants for the job, all of whom had experience and were educated enough to represent the office far better than this guy. We even learned later that the person selected copied his job application from another individual in the office to apply for this job.

  The qualifications of the person selected were exactly one: he did everything he could to make the selecting official's life easier (brewed his coffee, turned on office lights in the morning, booted his computer, and regularly spies on co-workers to report it to the hiring manager...and more).

  That the person hired is African American would be of no consequence to me were he qualified to do the job - but I AM of the opinion that this is an example of affirmative action that has gone badly wrong.

  H Posted October 3, 2003 11:20 AM
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  Where I work succession planning and sucking up must be the same thing. My unit just hired a manager (GS15) from a list of candidates. The successful candidate was known to all of us at least a year before the phoney process began. Of the finalists the chosen person had a BS degee and several years of government experience and no professional engineering certificate. To get to this guy they turned down a government employee with more government experience, a professional engineering designation and a masters degree. Both work in the same unit and both are considered competent by the work force. The hiring person had been in the hiring positioon for less than 6 months at the time and is military that will be moving on in 2 years. The civilians have to live with this joke for the rest of their careers.

  Tax Payer Posted October 2, 2003 7:04 AM