Originally Posted by
halls120
I'm not saying the people responsible need to pay the victim compensation - that would bring government to a halt. What I am saying is that federal employees ought to experience some kind of consequences when they F up.
On that, I'll gladly agree. In any job, one should be expected to do the job properly in order to keep the job.
Originally Posted by
Tom M.
Unfortunately we are not talking about a theoretical problem here.
But in your theoretical example, I would suggest that if it was "borderline" maybe an interview with the person would be in order?
I really don't want to pursue the hypothetical too much further here ... we can add enough "what-ifs" to the problem to get distracted from the original point, which I've pretty much lost at this point ... which was to clarify what we mean by "holding responsible".
halls120 got it right: perhaps not personal financial liability, but certainly there should be consequences in the workplace.