Why are Government/Municipal employees miserable and lazy?

[TeTe]

Going to the DMV is seriously the worst fucking experience.

How do these people get the jobs?

I've met some nice people from time to time at the DMV. I actually met a woman that was working there when I got my license renewed and she was all excited because we had the same birthday and started chatting me up for a few minutes.

I also had the woman working the camera question if it was even me in my previous license because I was clean shaven and had really short hair. She was telling me that I looked better with long hair and facial hair in my new picture.

 

[Plutoburn]

In private enterprise, performance actually affect your salary much more than in government occupation. I don't know for certain but promotion tend to be based on length of employment rather than merit.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

two reasons: good enough for government work is a saying, and it applies to all GOV operations

and two: it's awfully hard to remove Gov employees w/o going through the proper admin steps, since the managers are largely worthless and don't know the steps, it doesn't happen like EVER