September 10, 2002 at 12:00 am #26437
Ramonna30219
Participant
I don’t think government employees are any more lazy, rude or incompetent as a group than other employees. I think what happens is that when one encounters a bad government employee, this is taken as evidence of the character of all government employees. But when one encounters a rude or inefficient person employed by private industry, we attribute that person’s behavior only to that particular office or company or, at the most, that industry. All of private industry does not suffer for the actions of a few. I do believe there are some characteristics inherent in large organizations or bureaucracies that can make it difficult to root out bad apples, but this is true of large private industries as well.