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  Recently the Department of State had a big public meeting celebrating being in the Top 10. Unfortunately one of the workers noted that this management survey was composed of over 80% managers. Therefore, not valid. Other agencies had workers response of over 50% of the total so you might belive those, but as one person said, the Department of State is "Cooking the books again"

  GovExec.com reader Posted September 22, 2005 8:36 AM
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  8% return? Not bad actually, but also not statistically valid in the least unless you have proper controls. Take a look at the drivel in the readers comments to Gov Exec. Entertaining? Sure! But I cannot believe that this much whining is representative of the average government employee because by and large, they get the job done pretty well.

  Submariner Posted September 20, 2005 7:57 AM
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  The artiCle I read off the Reuters news service 09/14/05 stated that working for DHS was one the least rewarding jobs in the Federal Government. " DHS was rated second to last in worst agencies, just ahead of the SBA according to 150,000 workers surveyed at 30 Federal Agencies. I hope that our new chief, Julie Meyers , if confirmed by the Senate ( I hope she is not),read this survey and is taking notes. Meyers sounds like a Mike Garcia Clone, AUSA in Brooklyn, cronie chief of staff under Chertoff in NYS USA's Office. What qualifications ! Probably was golfing buddy with Chertoff. God save the Queen and this " Pathetic Agency.

  GovExec.com reader Posted September 16, 2005 1:50 PM
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  I noticed the Small Business Administration was dead last in employee satisfaction. I don't believe they have more than 3500 employees, so smaller isn't necessarily better.

  GovExec.com reader Posted September 16, 2005 12:51 PM
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  Interesting that to read the report you need software that is not installed on government computers, and of course we cannot install it ourselves.

  GovExec.com reader Posted September 16, 2005 8:11 AM
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  In my time with the government I have taken numerous surveys. All of them are just a huge waste of time. Nothing happens if you are first or last in the survey. All of these agencies are still there and they have the same number of people working there. If there is a purpose for surveys, please let me know what it is. Well, I guess I do know one reason for them, they give other people jobs that otherwise would not be employeed.

  More of the same junk by the government.

  rds Posted September 15, 2005 3:35 PM
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  I love these survey results-- OPM goes out with a pretty poor survey and gets back a whopping 150,000 responses. Feedback from approximately 8% of the federal workforce is being touted as Gospel. And low and behold the top 5 places to work in the government are all employers with less than 3,500 employees. If 100 employees from the NRC answer postively vs 500 employees from FAA or USPTO, given the numbers in each agency, which agency do you think comes out on top?

  As they say in survey results-- garbage in and garbage out.

  I have a better methodology for OPM to take a survey. How about surveying with comprehensive questions all the retirees who have retired from federal service over the past 10 years with given more heavily weighted scores to those who have more recently retired. You will probably get close to the same numbers of hits and I guarantee you that the results will be more accurate.

  And the retirees will feel all warm and fuzzy anout being asked for their opinions.

  GovExec.com reader Posted September 15, 2005 8:06 AM
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  It is extremely interesting that the five top rated agencies are not agencies at all! Also, the top five represent outfits that do not produce a valuable product but that simply issues rules for others and review what others have done. These guys are armchair quarterbacks that issue policy statements to others without any knowledge of what the others really do! That is why there are so many stupid government rules and procedures. It's easy to be top rated when you do nothing original, produce an orginal product or service and simply tell others how bad they are doing what they do. These are the outfits responsible for political accounting that is not documented and a far cry from useful.

  give me a break Posted September 15, 2005 6:18 AM