When things go wrong with a government agency, it’s nice to know nobody was watching!
All of the 470 senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs received annual ratings over the last four years indicating that they were “fully successful” in their jobs or even better, according to data released at a congressional hearing on Friday, despite delays in processing disability compensation claims and problems with veterans’ access to the department’s sprawling health care system.
None of the department’s senior executives received either of the two lowest of five possible job ratings, “minimally satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory,” in any of the past four fiscal years.
The data also showed that in 2013, nearly 80 percent of the senior executives were rated either “outstanding” or as having exceeded “fully successful” in their job performance, and that at least 65 percent of the executives received performance awards, which averaged around $9,000. Only about 20 percent received the middle of the five ratings.
Veterans Affairs officials sought to play down the data, saying that only 15 senior executives across the entire federal government had received either of the two lowest ratings in the most recent year — suggesting that the high ratings enjoyed by V.A. officials were not out of line with those of their counterparts at other government agencies.
Yep people were dying. Not just any people but US Armed Service Veterans, which is BETTER than “just people”, were dying waiting for care, and the people overseeing these horrible failures got great performance reviews and bonuses! Of course this also means the people overseeing the top management couldn’t be bothered to do THEIR job either.
Also look at that last paragraph in the quote. How many more agencies aren’t doing their damn jobs and getting healthy bonuses for it?
Hey it’s not like the overseers are giving them their OWN money! Public till money is “Free Money” to government hacks!
They should be going to jail, but instead we gave them raises and bonuses! Classy huh?
Yeah, buddy! I work at a government-run institution. There’s the woman who couldn’t distinguish a credit line at the bottom of a photo from the (usually) boiler-plate copyright permission the photographer extends to a publication. She got big-time POed at me, too. After 33 years in the same department, she finally retired. Her final salary was $73,000, maybe equivalent to $110,000 in the Boston area.
Her job? Director of friggin’ Media Services.
Lot of good, dedicated people in government, but the crud is worse than anything I saw in the private sector.