#civil service

[deadpresidents]

"Damn the President! He is a cold-blooded, narrow-minded, prejudiced, obstinate, timid old-psalm singing Indianapolis politician."

-- Theodore Roosevelt, after an uncomfortable meeting with President Benjamin Harrison, who had appointed him to the United States Civil Service Commission, but who Roosevelt felt was no longer supportive of the Commission's reform work when it began to investigate certain officials close to President Harrison, letter to Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, October 4, 1890.

#History #Presidents #Presidential History #Benjamin Harrison #President Harrison #Harrison Administration #Theodore Roosevelt #President Roosevelt #TR #Quotes by Presidents #Quotes About Presidents #Presidential Quotes #U.S. Civil Service Commission #Politics #Political History #Henry Cabot Lodge #Civil Service Commission #Civil Service #Civil Service Reform #Presidential Rivals #Presidential Rivalries

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Twelve Civil Service jobs—laboratory helpers in the city's Department of Health—were available on February 9, 1939, paying $960 a year. The applicants waited inside the 224th Coast Artillery Armory.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Great Depression #unemployment #job applicants #civil service #Feb. 9 #9 Feb. #job hunters

[ashironie]

THE MAGNUS PROTOCAL REFERENCE??????

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #grian #department for hermit permits #or whatever the DHP stands for #i forgor #dhp #british civil service #civil service

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Rot

Kauernder (1912), Egon Schiele//Radial Symmetry; “Study for love’s body” , Katherine Larson//Chronic Illness, Christina Marie Brown//Civil Service, Claire Schwartz//Takato Yamamoto//No Death, Mirel Wagner//Bloat, Christina Marie Brown//The Green Knight (2021)//Malcolm Liepke

#rot #quotes #words #poetry #web weaving #mine #egon schiele #malcolm liepke #green #blue #takato yamamoto #kauernder #katherine larson #christina marie brown #claire schwartz #bloat #chronic illness #the green knight #radial symmetry #civil service #mirel wagner #no death

[blackswaneuroparedux]

People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's only when one realises that great administrators and leaders of men have all been at any rate slightly mad that one has a true understanding of history.

- Auberon Waugh

#waugh #auberon waugh #quote #politicians #politics #civil service #civil servants #british politics #power #sir humphrey appleby #yes minister #tv series #BBC

[ladiesofhpfest]

Inhuman Resources by @saintsenara/Asenora

Our third work of the week is here, brought to us by @saintsenara/Asenora! Featuring the devilishly pink Dolores J. Umbridge!

Summary: Speaking from the fire in the Gryffindor Common Room, Sirius Black will assure his godson that Dolores Umbridge is definitely not a Death Eater. How does he know? Well, he's seen the paper trail...

What's to love: Dolores. Umbridge's. Diary. Her pink diary, the paper trail, everything about this shows how unhinged Umbridge is - so much so that even the Death Eaters aren't interested! A bit of heartbreak, a whole lot of civil service, and the most precise, harrowing paper trail you'll ever want to see.

Thank you Asenora!

#dolores umbridge #death eaters #lord voldemort #ladies of hp #ladies of hp fest #fic rec #paper trails #civil service #ministry of magic

[contemplatingoutlander]

This article by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Virginia) makes the dangers of the Trump plan to make it possible for him to limit civil service employee protections (and therefore independence) and fill the higher levels of the civil service with many of his unqualified sycophants. It also talks about a bill he proposed to stop Trump or any other president from trying to do this. Here are some excerpts:

A report by Jonathan Swan of Axios has confirmed my worst suspicions: Donald Trump is planning, were he to be reelected as president, to replace vast swaths of government experts with his own army of tens of thousands of loyalists.

This is a direct threat to democracy and the rule of law. The only reason for Trump to do this is to make it easier to fire federal employees who dare to disagree with him. [...] Trump already tried this once before. On Oct. 21, 2020, he signed Executive Order 13957 creating Schedule F in the excepted service — jobs in the federal government that, for various reasons, are excluded from certain fundamental civil-service protections.  This executive order, which President Biden rescinded, would have undermined the merit system principles of our federal workforce by requiring agency heads to reclassify an estimated 50,000 “policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating” positions to a newly created Schedule F category of federal employees that removed their due process rights and civil service protections. [...] These impartial civil servants research vaccines, help families in the wake of hurricanes and deadly fires, and inspect our food to ensure they are free of disease. They deserve protection from political interference from a president who would place preserving his power above following the law. [...] That is why I have introduced the Preventing a Patronage System Act. The bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), was passed by the House this month but has yet to be taken up by the Senate. It would secure the civil service and protect federal employees from losing statutory and constitutional job protections. Our bill would prevent any position in the competitive service — the jobs that are protected by merit-based civil service rules — from being reclassified to an excepted service schedule that was created after Sept. 30, 2020.

It would also limit federal employee reclassifications to the five excepted service schedules currently in use and would block any reclassifications of federal employees to Schedule F pursuant to the executive order signed on Oct. 21, 2020.

There are a lot of lessons to learn from Trump’s assault on our democracy and governance norms. Protecting our civil service needs to be top among them.

[emphasis added]

#us politics #gop #trump #civil service #gerald e connolly #the washington post

[todaysdocument]

The Pendleton Act, passed on January 16, 1883, revamped the way the Federal Government jobs were awarded. It also forbade requiring employees to give political service or contributions. 

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government

Series: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress

Transcription: 

Forty-Second Congress of the United States of America

                       At the Second Session,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the Forth, day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty two

                                 AN ACT

         To regulate and improve the civil service of the United States

  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the President is certified to appoint by and with the advice and consent of

the Senate, three persons not more than two of the whom shall be adherents of the

same party, as Civil Service Commissioners, and said three commissioners shall

constitute the United States Civil Service Commission .  Said commissioners

shall hold no other official place under the United States. ___________________

  The President may remove any commissioner; and any vacancy in the

position of commissioner shall be so filled by the President, by and with the

advice and consent of the Senate as to conform to said conditions for the

first selections of commissioners._________________________________

  The commissioners shall each receive a salary of three thousand five hundred

dollars a year. And each of said commissioners shall be paid his necessary

traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his duty as a commissioner.  

  Sec 2.  That is shall be the duty of the said commissioners:___________________

First, To aid the President, as he may request in preparing suitable rules for

carrying this act into effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated

it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States in the departments  and

offices to which any such rules may relate to aid in all proper ways in carrying

said rules, and any modifications  thereof, into effect._______________________

  Second. And, among other things, said rules shall proved and declare as

nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant as follows:

  First, for open competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicable

for the public service now classified or to be classified here under.  Such examin-

ations shall be practical in their character and so far as may be shall

relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness.

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provisions of the four forgoing sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdea- meanor,. and shall on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or by such fine and imprisonment both in the discretion of the Court._____________________________________ J. Warren Kiefer Speaker of the House of Representatives Dair D. Davies President of the Senate pro tempore approved January sixteenth 1883 Chester Arthur

#archivesgov #January 16 #1883 #1800s #James Garfield #Chester A. Arthur #civil service #government employment #Pendleton Act

[nodynasty4us]

From the March 13, 2024 blog post:

Trump has promised to gut the federal workforce by reintroducing an executive order known as Schedule F if he wins a second term.

...

The "consortium of Trump allies" -- the Heritage Foundation and similar organizations -- might be wrong to believe that Trump will use these powers to implement their agenda. What we're seeing at the RNC suggests that Trump will expect these newly installed bureaucrats to work for him, not the conservative movement. Do the members of the consortium want to dismantle the administrative state and turn America into a Christian nationalist country? If so, they shouldn't assume Trump is on board. Trump cares about Trump. If he does to the federal government what he's doing to the RNC, he'll turn it into a machine for doing his bidding, not the Heritage Foundation's.

#donald trump #civil service

[misforgotten2]

US Post Office First Day Covers   1978 - 1984

#first day covers #stamp collecting #postage stamps #1983 #ephemera #civil service #1980s #1980's

[anyoneknowwhatbrexitmeans]

“So, with Brexit ‘done’, and the UK out of transition, how far have those early concerns been borne out? Has Brexit, which repatriates a raft of policy-making powers to the Governments of the UK, strengthened a civil service which will now need to take on new responsibilities or has it shone a spotlight on, or indeed created, weaknesses? How well have the integrity and values of the civil service survived the polarised and polarising process of Brexit? And how does the civil service need to adapt to the challenges of the post-Brexit era? This piece offers a preliminary assessment.”

#civil service #brexit

[cooldefendortidalwave]

Best MPSC Courses in Pune- Chanakya Mandal Pariwar

We conduct separate and comprehensive courses for the preparation of these exams. The duration, eligibility, course fees for these MPSC Classes in Pune are different. The candidates must secure admission after a thorough understanding of all these. Consider all the alternatives including the courses mentioned here, graduate and postgraduate courses in Public Services and the Abhyas Mahotsav held twice a year. Our Batches are One of the best MPSC Classes in Pune Sadashiv Peth.

Each one is suggested to choose an option best suited to him/her depending on the available time, priority, educational qualification, etc. But once you have taken a particular option, we insist that you do it with full devotion. Prelims and Mains having 3 hours of daily input. In addition to this, we organize 7 days residential camp in January every year, for the preparation of prelims. Page 31 contains more information about the camp. The interview preparation program is held after the result of the main examination.

This course provides combined guidance for Prelim exam and Main exam. Guidance is also provided for all 4 papers of General Studies, compulsory English, and Marathi.

The guidance for CSAT is included in the Prelims part. The year-long course starts in June and a short batch of 4 months for Prelims in the month of December every year. Generally, we focus on guidance (this is designed as per new syllabi) for the Main exam first and then turn towards Prelim exam. If MPSC exams are announced in between, necessary changes are made in the guidance programme immediately. Thus, this is a flexible course. Our Batches are One of the best upsc & mpsc Classes in Pune Sadashiv Peth.

#mpscexam #mpsccoaching #civil service #civil services examination

[ceevee5]

It’s corruption a-go-go.

#uk politics #corruption #Tories #civil service

[proserpentina]

Claire Schwartz

Civil Service

#claire schwartz #civil service #be radiant

[unouroborize]

You own to prove you cannot be owned. / In owning, you sign a contract of possession.

Claire Schwartz, “Lecture on the History of the House,” Civil Service

#words #quote #poetry #claire schwartz #civil service

[danteskygod]

The fact checking on this resignation speech should be interesting reading.

(and thanking the "peerless civil service" when he plans to sack 91,000 of them is just taking the piss)

#boris johnson #british government #conservatives #british politics #uk politics #civil service