How to get promoted in a government job

submitted by trident765 from self.nonmorons

For government jobs the funding is likely to be stable regardless of if your department performs well or poorly. This means that if you are productive, this is of zero value to management. When productiveness doesn't matter, then who does management promote? The answer is simply people who management likes the best - the suck-ups.

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[–]privatejoker11 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Congrats. You've discovered the parasitocracy.

[–]privatejoker11 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

For government jobs the funding is likely to be stable regardless of if your department performs well or poorly.

This should tell you you already live under communism.

This means that if you are productive, this is of zero value to management.

No, productivity is of negative value to bureaucratic organizations; it directly reduces any plausible justification for their existence. What the hell do they do all day, actually?

people who management likes the best - the suck-ups.

An insect-like society. A hive of soulless drones.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'd even go so far as to say all military forces are communist under a commander in chief.

[–]privatejoker11 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Today, they probably are, very nearly. But it's not the fact of centralized command that makes them communist. It's the values with which they are indoctrinated and the agenda that they serve.

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just say you identify.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Either stick up or accuse them of being white supremacists.

[–]privatejoker11 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't get what you mean. But if you think you can play their game and win, even a little, you are, as my schoolteachers used to say, sorely mistaken.