How about Jack "the Lobbyist" Councilman?

But here goes. I, too, have no problem with the city getting rid of under-performing employees, hell, I wish my company would. However, the city has lost many quality employees, not because of poor performance, but because of false "budget pressure" reported by CFO Ghandi. Performance isn't taken into consideration in those instances.

When Anthony Williams separated local government workers from the federal pay scale, city employees began making much less than their federal counterparts. That is a fact. Now, I do expect a city professional to make more money than a non-professional private sector employee. For instance, an Attorney with the Office of the Attorney General SHOULD be making more than a clerk typist at a local bank. Someone with a Masters Degree education SHOULD be making more than someone with only a high school diploma in the private sector. I'd prefer highly educated and qualified employees in the local, county and state government than the low level, minimally educated. I expect stewards of tax dollars to be highly experienced in what they do.

It is naive to say you want public employees to directly interface with the public without those that don't. Truth is, in the private and public sectors, it is those who don't directly interface with the public that support the operations that allow for those who do to do their job. Human Resources does not interface with the public but they ensure that those who do get hired and paid. Safety personnel do not directly interface with the public but they ensure that those who do, particularly in hazardous operations, do so in a safe manner to minimize costs of workers compensation and personnel pressure due to absences, the Budget and Finance Offices do not interface with the public but are tasked with ensuring that organizational funds are managed appropriately.

Natwar Ghandi is the problem here. He has been the problem all along. Every organization, every state, every city has a process by which they can use to get rid of under performing employees. That isn't what we are talking about here.

The only under performing employee in this instance is the city's Chief Financial Officer.

Wikipedia has a good explanation as part of their article on the General Schedule, but when I posted this with the link it went to moderation, and everyone knows that's a black hole. But you should be able to find it pretty easily

What is worse, because of Ghandi's false projections, thousands of city workers lost their jobs due to "budget pressures" that, it turns out, were no pressure at all. He is and has been playing games with peoples lives

Since Fenty was Mayor, and what continues today, this city has nickel and dimed citizens through fees, double fines, revenue driven speed and light cams etc. They council has approved this primarily because of Natwar Gandis budget forecasts. HE is the problem!

I know, I know --- it's not gonna happen with the current crop of DC pols. Sorry.

Time to stop the gravy train for so many who do so little while being parasites on the DC government.