Subject: FCC Office Testing History

On 08 Aug 2004 12:18:46 GMT, N2EY wrote:

The only ones "inside" who really wanted the work passed to the
volunteers were those examiners who wanted to do less work (some,
but certainly not all).

But wasn't the FCC, like all agencies at the time, under pressure to reduce
spending? Seems to me that getting unpaid volunteers to take over most of the
work of amateur license testing and test preparation would save some $$. Not
much, but it would be something the top dogs could point to and say "see -
we're saving money and getting the govt. off your back"...

That's what "the brass" kept saying.....

Of course that really didn't save any money because the examiners
were given other tasks (primarily database entry of administrative
data) which didn't exist before.

The rest of us felt that it was a bad move,
and would be the start of a very slippery slope of the FCC abandoning
its regulatory responsibilities under the guise of "privatization".
Replacing said examiners with more and different examiners with better
work attitudes would have been a better solution.

Of course, but that was politically incorrect back then, wasn't it?

In that era a detailed performance evaluation system was well
established and it wasn't difficult to terminate someone's employment
for documented failure to perform. The most politically incorrect
thing, though, was to oppose whatever scheme "the brass" came up
with no matter how harebrained it was.

The brass obviously had their minds made up before they even asked
us about it.....and in fact it was the start of said "privitization"
downhill spiral.

Exactly. Brought to you by which administration?

Started under Reagan, got worse under Clinton. Equal opportunity.

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