Argentine Story

 I read a 20-line piece from Argentina this AM.  Odd order given by the government there.

They've identified 40,000 government official jobs....which require a aptitude-test.  If you pass...you are offered a contract for your current job.  If you fail?  No  contract  for your current job.  'Up-or-out'...would be my description.

If you count all gov't employees in the country....local, state, federal....they have around 2.7-million people....so I imagine that the 40,000 are mostly 'bosses' or supervisors/chiefs.

Any guesses to pass/fail rate?   Not really.  I would imagine  that if you were 30 years out of school or university....the odds might be against you passing....meaning that your score will be less than 60-percent. 

If 10,000 fail?  Well....they get sent to the civilian sector and probably a pay-cut.  Then you go and offer a temp promotion to some folks into the chief's positions.....then you test them.  Eventually, you might weed-out 100,000 employees out of the gov't sector.