Inbred entitlement mentality.

If they do NO work, they go !

Well, start scrutinizing there performance and then fire them for not performing to the expectation of the government.

Amen gmiller. It's not important if they do their job or not, or even go to work, just don't fire them.

The folks that do the real work have been around forever. They are the ones that should be kept on board.

Those are the ones that are never let go, because they're the only ones that know how things work.

All the govt. has to do is start firing the ones with the least amount of seniority. That will do the trick.

Lionel did too much in the way of Americanizing this place, now the 'public' - civil servants think they are a caste system apart from the rest of us and cannot be dismissed.

That's not true at all. I know tons of people that work in civil service here. Almost all of them were sweating this last election.

Every time a different political party comes to power, heads fly like there's no tomorrow.

Danilo has already put the word out that a lot of heads are going to fly anyway, due to the posterity measures he's putting into place. I'll believe it when I see it, but I guardedly optimistic it's gonna happen.

sounds like the US government or Chicago can't fire the lazy or the no shows

The government must be run like any other business. Those that do actual work and have proven their mettle, stay, and even promoted.
Those that make believe they're doing something but fail to show what it is, will be fired and even prosecuted for fraud.

Danilo will get his govt in order, in spite of empty threads from those who think they're entitled to permanent employment, regardless of the relevance or the importance of that position.

Time to clean up!!

I just want to know when DR gvt started its so call Civil Service System?As i know hiring up to now has not been by the merit system or testing as it is done in NYC. All public employees are done
by political appointments and are now call (public servants). Another way of hiding their true being.

The only ones recognized as public service employees are the P.S. teachers 50% of them that
have proven themselves to be worth keeping due to their seniority as JDJones pointed out above.
The last hired first to go ,since they have the least seniority and are the ones must likely to have been politicaly appontees.

I do suggest a fare Civil Service System be created in DR, Selected from among the academic
educated ones ,no matter their political affiliation ,to be equitatively paid accorng to rise of COLA.
There-after, any promotions to be given acording to their knowlege adquired since level #1

Gmiller:


How many readers understand the real meaning of inbred?

Perez Perez, Martinez Martinez, Diaz Diaz and many many more. Started with those ending in Z nothing personal. Didn't have much luck with Abba Abba and the like.

Now for an international view on the Botellas I mean "Civil Servants:"


"The Economist: it is regrettable that many officials remain in their jobs"


"Medina’s turn"


"New rum in old bottles"


Aug 25th 2012


BEFORE winning the Dominican Republic’s presidential election in May, Danilo Medina promised to “continue with what works, fix what is wrong and do what has never been done before”. At his inauguration on August 16th, he fleshed out those promises. He plans to reverse a rise in violent crime with a thorough overhaul of the police, almost to double spending on education and to cut the proportion of Dominicans in poverty from 34% to around 20%. He also pledged to crack down on widespread corruption and eliminate chronic power shortages.

continued:

"But Mr Medina may find it hard to turn good intentions into achievements. He is a protégé of Leonel Fernández, who ruled the country for 12 of the past 16 years (and whose wife, Margarita Cedeño, is Mr Medina’s vice-president). Mr Fernández presided over rapid economic growth and a big fall in inflation, while building many new roads and a metro in Santo Domingo, the capital. His energetic personal diplomacy raised his country’s profile abroad."

"Mr Medina has left much of the economic team in place. Their first task will be to deal with a budget deficit approaching 4% of GDP. There will be fewer public works, but more spending on social programmes and security."

continued:

"But there is a darker side to Mr Medina’s political inheritance.

Foreign watchdogs say the Dominican Republic is one of the most corrupt countries in Latin America.

So it is unfortunate that many officials are to remain in their jobs. They include the interior minister and police chief. That casts doubt on Mr Medina’s promise of police reform, which is urgently needed. Assaults, robberies and murders have been rising.

When the local police called headquarters during a bank robbery in Moca, a town in the north, last month they found the line disconnected for non-payment."

But we have a METRO!


continued:

"Optimists welcome the appointment of a respected attorney-general and also Mr Medina’s choice of Gustavo Montalvo as his chief of staff. Mr Montalvo resigned from a government ethics committee in 2005 in protest at lack of progress in fighting corruption. Mr Medina could achieve many of his goals by pruning the public sector, which is stuffed with party hacks, and redirecting spending to less wasteful ends. That would indeed be “to do what has never been done before”.

acento.com.do/index.php/news/20776/56/The-Economist-es-lamentable-que-muchos-funcionarios-permanezcan-en-sus-puestos.html

economist.com/node/21560897

The Haitian and his metro rant.

A You love to read them every one of them; just can't get enough!