Because he focuses selectively on government spending that he derives no benefit from, and he also uses a meat cleaver approach when a scalpel would be more appropriate. He is clueless to what government employees actually do, hence mass firing critical employees, probationary (another term he doesn’t understand) or otherwise, only to have to hire them back because of their critical expertise.
I have worked in academia, business and government. While cutting expenditures and budgets are often considered essential, only government seemed adamantly resistant to cuts. While I agree that a scapel is generally preferable to a meat cleaver in theory, it also leads to other headaches. Being told to cut staff by 10% at one company ("scapel"), put stress on the firing manager to cut friends or the workers most in need of their job (often their kids in college), but it was done for years. Some elderly workers would willingly retire early, and sadly the best workers would often quickly take positions at other companies.
Then there was a spate of 'resistant' workers claiming they were being discriminated against in the firings, and the company's lawyers soon decided the best approach was to eliminate departments rather than individuals (the "meat cleaver" approach). This was probably worst case business-wise as it destroyed capabilities and institutional memory, but was legally easily able to defend. The rationale was that the departments could eventually be rebuilt with "new and better" employees. Much essential work was offshored to India and other countries "short-term".
Management stressed that "no one is irreplaceable", "no one is essential" and everyone should always be looking for their next job. That did nothing for morale and was poisonous for culture, but that is today's reality. Government employees have been shielded from that reality far too long.
Thank you for exposing your cold-blooded he who dies with the most toys wins absurdist view of ‘that reality’. Never mind that everyone with a pulse should be shielded from it.
If that’s all your experience taught you, no wonder academic, business and government elites are clueless when it comes to fixing what ails us.
How is Musk exhibiting greed by uncovering wasteful spending?
Because he focuses selectively on government spending that he derives no benefit from, and he also uses a meat cleaver approach when a scalpel would be more appropriate. He is clueless to what government employees actually do, hence mass firing critical employees, probationary (another term he doesn’t understand) or otherwise, only to have to hire them back because of their critical expertise.
His greed is both monetary and ideological.
I have worked in academia, business and government. While cutting expenditures and budgets are often considered essential, only government seemed adamantly resistant to cuts. While I agree that a scapel is generally preferable to a meat cleaver in theory, it also leads to other headaches. Being told to cut staff by 10% at one company ("scapel"), put stress on the firing manager to cut friends or the workers most in need of their job (often their kids in college), but it was done for years. Some elderly workers would willingly retire early, and sadly the best workers would often quickly take positions at other companies.
Then there was a spate of 'resistant' workers claiming they were being discriminated against in the firings, and the company's lawyers soon decided the best approach was to eliminate departments rather than individuals (the "meat cleaver" approach). This was probably worst case business-wise as it destroyed capabilities and institutional memory, but was legally easily able to defend. The rationale was that the departments could eventually be rebuilt with "new and better" employees. Much essential work was offshored to India and other countries "short-term".
Management stressed that "no one is irreplaceable", "no one is essential" and everyone should always be looking for their next job. That did nothing for morale and was poisonous for culture, but that is today's reality. Government employees have been shielded from that reality far too long.
Thank you for exposing your cold-blooded he who dies with the most toys wins absurdist view of ‘that reality’. Never mind that everyone with a pulse should be shielded from it.
If that’s all your experience taught you, no wonder academic, business and government elites are clueless when it comes to fixing what ails us.
Management stressed….
Fuck that.