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| Old Pif... |
 Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:30 pm |
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On Jun 16, 6:45 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
[quote:e044660c3b]
Who decides who gets hired and how much they get
paid may or may not need to be changed, if Congress
can get around to dealing with it while faced with real
problems.
[/quote:e044660c3b]
It looks like everybody even in Australia understands what this is
about. Except me. Could you drop two lines what all that means? |
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| Russell... |
| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:33 pm |
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On Jun 16, 9:30 pm, Old Pif <old... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:4a4288fa2d]On Jun 16, 6:45 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
Who decides who gets hired and how much they get
paid may or may not need to be changed, if Congress
can get around to dealing with it while faced with real
problems.
It looks like everybody even in Australia understands what this is
about. Except me. Could you drop two lines what all that means?
[/quote:4a4288fa2d]
In evaluating current efforts or considering future modifications,
[are things being done well, and if not how should they be changed?]
Congress may wish to consider options that include agency-specific
or executive-branch-wide approaches;
[instead of one-size-fits-all, Congress may want to give various
units of the government flexibility]
leveraging the involvement of the Office of Personnel Management,
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the federal Chief
Human Capital Officers Council, or other entities;
[people with HR expertise might actually have some good ideas
for Congress to consider]
requiring agencies to engage in strategic planning, evaluation, or
other activities;
[maybe some planning would be useful instead of just trying stuff]
and exploring a variety of S&T personnel issues in specific agency
and policy contexts.
[actually seek out some facts upon which to make those plans]
This report will be updated when events warrant.
[don't bother since Congress won't fix things anyway]
HTH. |
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| Old Pif... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:46 pm |
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On Jun 17, 9:33 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
[quote:3645846d40]On Jun 16, 9:30 pm, Old Pif <old... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 16, 6:45 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
Who decides who gets hired and how much they get
paid may or may not need to be changed, if Congress
can get around to dealing with it while faced with real
problems.
It looks like everybody even in Australia understands what this is
about. Except me. Could you drop two lines what all that means?
In evaluating current efforts or considering future modifications,
[are things being done well, and if not how should they be changed?]
Congress may wish to consider options that include agency-specific
or executive-branch-wide approaches;
[instead of one-size-fits-all, Congress may want to give various
units of the government flexibility]
leveraging the involvement of the Office of Personnel Management,
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the federal Chief
Human Capital Officers Council, or other entities;
[people with HR expertise might actually have some good ideas
for Congress to consider]
requiring agencies to engage in strategic planning, evaluation, or
other activities;
[maybe some planning would be useful instead of just trying stuff]
and exploring a variety of S&T personnel issues in specific agency
and policy contexts.
[actually seek out some facts upon which to make those plans]
This report will be updated when events warrant.
[don't bother since Congress won't fix things anyway]
HTH.
[/quote:3645846d40]
Why anybody bothers to write anything like that? Where can people
learn such a language? |
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| Russell... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:07 pm |
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On Jun 18, 8:46 pm, Old Pif <old... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:b28b38d1c1]On Jun 17, 9:33 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
On Jun 16, 9:30 pm, Old Pif <old... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 16, 6:45 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
Who decides who gets hired and how much they get
paid may or may not need to be changed, if Congress
can get around to dealing with it while faced with real
problems.
It looks like everybody even in Australia understands what this is
about. Except me. Could you drop two lines what all that means?
In evaluating current efforts or considering future modifications,
[are things being done well, and if not how should they be changed?]
Congress may wish to consider options that include agency-specific
or executive-branch-wide approaches;
[instead of one-size-fits-all, Congress may want to give various
units of the government flexibility]
leveraging the involvement of the Office of Personnel Management,
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the federal Chief
Human Capital Officers Council, or other entities;
[people with HR expertise might actually have some good ideas
for Congress to consider]
requiring agencies to engage in strategic planning, evaluation, or
other activities;
[maybe some planning would be useful instead of just trying stuff]
and exploring a variety of S&T personnel issues in specific agency
and policy contexts.
[actually seek out some facts upon which to make those plans]
This report will be updated when events warrant.
[don't bother since Congress won't fix things anyway]
HTH.
Why anybody bothers to write anything like that? Where can people
learn such a language.
[/quote:b28b38d1c1]
Like all subcultures, a bureaucracy develops its own liguistic
conventions, in part to facilitate communications internally
and in part to set itself apart from the rest of society by setting
up a barrier to communication with, or at least understanding
by, the rest of society.
Cheer,
Russell |
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| Old Pif... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:56 pm |
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On Jun 18, 9:07 pm, Russell <russell.mar... at (no spam) wdn.com> wrote:
[quote:b34620c349]
Like all subcultures, a bureaucracy develops its own liguistic
conventions, in part to facilitate communications internally
and in part to set itself apart from the rest of society by setting
up a barrier to communication with, or at least understanding
by, the rest of society.
Cheer,
Russell
[/quote:b34620c349]
It looks like they achieved complete and total success. |
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