Overstaffed federal agencies

Doesn’t a shrinking workload demand layoffs under sound Republican businesslike principles? I would expect these to occur by reverse seniority, newest hires first, of course. Or maybe good old racist/ethnic discrimination (blacks and Italians first) should apply, just this once…

Author: James Wimberley

James Wimberley (b. 1946, an Englishman raised in the Channel Islands. three adult children) is a former career international bureaucrat with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. His main achievements there were the Lisbon Convention on recognition of qualifications and the Kosovo law on school education. He retired in 2006 to a little white house in Andalucia, His first wife Patricia Morris died in 2009 after a long illness. He remarried in 2011. to the former Brazilian TV actress Lu Mendonça. The cat overlords are now three. I suppose I've been invited to join real scholars on the list because my skills, acquired in a decade of technical assistance work in eastern Europe, include being able to ask faux-naïf questions like the exotic Persians and Chinese of eighteenth-century philosophical fiction. So I'm quite comfortable in the role of country-cousin blogger with a European perspective. The other specialised skill I learnt was making toasts with a moral in the course of drunken Caucasian banquets. I'm open to expenses-paid offers to retell Noah the great Armenian and Columbus, the orange, and university reform in Georgia. James Wimberley's occasional publications on the web

3 thoughts on “Overstaffed federal agencies”

  1. I think the company I used to work for did it "expensive people first", which included almost all the seniors they hired during the Y2K crunch time.

  2. Michael O'Hare says:
    "Or maybe good old racist/ethnic discrimination (blacks and Italians first) should apply, just this once…"
    Wow, you're a total asshole, aren't you? Go ahead, censor my comment, you cowardly piece of shit. it feels good just having typed it.

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