Letter: Stop government brain drain with employee revival, not replacement

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Letter: Stop government brain drain with employee revival, not replacement

Published on May 7, 2008 - 03:10 PM

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Regarding "Report: Agencies must head off brain drain": As one who will be part of that brain drain, I say good riddance. Government doesn't need to replace us, it needs to revive and replenish us. We need fewer careerists and more stinters — more older, wiser, experienced middle/senior managers willing to do a five-year stint in the public sector. They are today's equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt's dollar-a-year men.

The era of the IBM/longevity model of employment is over. Government needs to move on.

Don Green
Washington, D.C.

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I couldn't agree more. I am not "old" just middle aged and still alive and not dead ...I agree we need to be revived and utilized not put to pasture.

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