People who work for the government don't get no respect...

I wonder why? Maybe it's because the bar for their job performance is often much lower than it is for those of us who work in the private sector. Ya think?

NYC Transit supervisors falsified thousands of vital signal inspections across the subway system for years, leaving straphangers at risk for deadly collisions like the one that killed nine people in Washington, DC...

Signal maintainers would routinely enter false inspections into their logbooks, which managers used to write reports. In some cases, managers would write a bogus report even if a worker refused to enter the fudged data in his book...

Workers who didn't comply lost overtime privileges or got sent to the dirtiest, most leak-infested tunnels, sources said.

Huh?

Members of the Transport Workers Union can make upwards of $127,000 a year with overtime; upper management makes about $160,000 without overtime. Hmmm.

And that, of course, does not include the largest perk of all, the huge pensions that are pushing budget deficits at all levels of government into bankruptcy. Stories like this are common ~ from both the media and the personal stories of pretty much anyone who has had to get something done through a government agency. No wonder government workers are often viewed with contempt, even by Saturday Night Live:

HT to David Boaz