In the US government, we have this rank....called SES. In basic terms....it's a civilian that is very much at the 1-star to 4-star general level. Back in the late 1970s....someone dreamed up this idea of the super-civilian grades to run vast programs throughout the US government. Today, there are around 7,100 of these guys. The original idea was that you'd get to a post in one organization....develop your skills....and maybe five to eight years later....move. There would be this enriching process for you, and your old organization....so that everyone got this new 'agenda' in their mind.
Well....someone did the statistics and discovered that almost half of the 7,100 folks....have never moved in their entire career as a SES (some over thirty years). To be honest, only eight percent have ever ventured beyond their own organization. So if you got hired as a Postal SES....the odds are....if you ever moved, then you moved from the Texas zone, to the Atlanta zone....and still stayed within the postal system.
Some Congressmen are a bit angry over this. They'd like to force these SES's to actually move to new organizations. Course, it might reflect badly because the guy is incompetent at most of what he does, and it'd be noticed quickly at the new organization. And this is one of the fears of the SESs, and why they really don't want too much movement.
I'm guessing this won't go far. The SESs can hustle around various management groups, and eventually show this is all pretty stupid....even if it comes from a bogus study.
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