The only difficult concept here seems to be your inability to understand that physically RECEIVING a package and signing for it (in whatever mail room) is NOT the same as actually OPENING up that package and starting to work on it. Your application could arrive in the mail room on the same day as 200 others, but that doesn't mean that all those 200 applications will immediately be opened that same day and someone will get down to working on them just because the mail man delivered them and someone signed for them. It could be days (or even weeks) between the time when an application ARRIVES and when someone actually OPENS it to begin work on it.scos said:
The fact that you're even TRYING to equate how things work in the private sector with how things work in a government agency is staggering.scos said:
In the private sector, there are consequences to people's actions. In the public sector, you can pretty much do whatever you want and be as lazy and incompetent as you can possibly be, and you'll still have your job and government pension. You have to literally go out of your way to get fired from a public sector job, and in most cases, the only offense serious enough to warrant dismissal is a threat made on your supervisor's life. Anything short of that, and it's business as usual in government.
