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By Jason Peckenpaugh jpeckenpaugh@govexec.com March 29, 2004
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    What's the problem Mr. Appointee, is the pay not enough to cover the aggravation?

    A Civil Servant will surely be left behind to clean up the mess!

    GovExec.com reader Posted April 1, 2004 3:18 PM
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    Yet another one abandons the sinking ship! Does anyone detect a pattern here, with ICE and DHS in general? It is very difficult to fill management positions at this agency, or to retain managers already here. DHS has only been in existence for a year, and yet the Deputy Secretary went back to the Navy, and the Chief of Staff, Chief Financial Officer, and others left after only a few months. Many talented people are also declining offers to fill key jobs at DHS. Why? A recent article in "The New Republic" stated, "DHS is a bureaucratic Frankenstein, with clumsily stitched-together limbs and an inadequate, misfiring brain". The geniuses who created this monster obviously had no idea what they were doing, or what the agencies they destroyed actually did to protect the U.S. Now they want to eliminate long standing civil service rights and protections, and do away with the impartial and objective General Schedule pay system. No wonder employee morale is at rock bottom, and we have no faith in our leadership. Is the country safer as a result? I don't think so!

    GovExec.com reader Posted March 30, 2004 11:17 AM

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