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Thursday, January 17, 2002

Your Tax Dollars at Work
Scroll down about midway to the article by Jeb Phillips, which talks about the end of the City of Birmingham’s hiring freeze. The lede states:

”Etta Dunning hasn't seen her Birmingham Department of Community Development employees work at 100 percent efficiency in months. More like 120 percent, she said. Before Tuesday, she was preparing to tell her employees to aim for 160 percent.”

Very likely true, although somewhat misleading, in that comparing the efficiency of civil service workers to private sector workers is a bit like comparing the Wright Brother’s first plane to an F-16. So, “160 percent” would be equivalent to something like a Sopwith Camel.

posted by Terry at 8:25:00 AM

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