Why is it so hard to fire a "Public Servant"?

[aGameOfThrones]

Not only was Reid eating a Jamaican beef patty – eating while driving a bus is against the rules – he was said to be actively trying to prevent a car in another lane from getting in front of him. When Reid had to slam on the brakes, Wilson, who was standing near the front of the bus, couldn't hold on to the handle, so she fell to the floor, banging her head on the fare box. Reid then proved his disregard for passengers was no fluke when he kept on driving and lunching.

Eventually medical help was called, but it apparently wasn't able to keep Wilson from spending $200,000 for treatment like having discs in her spine fused together. As it turns out, Reid has a troubled history with the city bus service – for instance, he broke five rules of conduct while on a supervised re-training drive with city instructors because of previous instances of bad driving, and he still wasn't fired. Since the injury, he has retired, but before going, he left Broward County – and its taxpayers – with a $100,000 bill to settle Wilson's lawsuit.

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/27/this-patty-eating-bus-driver-cost-floridas-broward-county-10/

[MRK]

Is Autoblog at least paying you to post 4 different threads of their articles at the same time?

[MRK]

They were all interesting articles though.

[acptulsa]

Patronage. Politics, in other words. Protections are built in so that every bureau everwhere won't see all their experienced and useful employees fired every time someone loses an election, so politicians of the other party can give those jobs to their own campaign workers.

Just one of many reasons why government never works very well.

[Brian4Liberty]

Because it's not a business. It's more like a charity. No one cares if it is efficient, effective, or retains customers, and there are no concerns if it is "profitable" or not. It's all someone else's money (taxpayer's money or debt), and the "customers" are given no other options. It's not a business, but they certainly like to pretend that they are.

[fisharmor]

Am I the only one who immediately thought "It's because he's black"?

[acptulsa]

Because it's not a business... No one cares if it is efficient, effective, or retains customers, and there are no concerns if it is "profitable" or not.

A good point. +rep


Am I the only one who immediately thought "It's because he's black"?

I didn't even know he was. A bureaucrat of any race is just as likely to get away with murder. How many of these abusive cops we hear of more and more are 'ethnic'?

[tttppp]

There are probably several forms that have to be filled out to fire someone, and if that person is a minority they baiscallly have to commit murder to be fired. In the private sector if you dont like someone you just fire them, no questions.

[paulbot24]

Sounds like one of those complicated Washington lingo things that we Mundanes don't understand:

Washington bureaucrat: "If somebody we hired for a job here at work has never actually done their job, or any work, technically, they've never worked here, so..... how do we fire them?"

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