RE: Too Funny
June 7, 2016 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2016 at 6:38 pm by Minimalist.)
The way it really works is that the agency budgets a certain number of FTEs (Full-Time Equivalents) to specific tasks. This way they can get two part-timers to each work half of the year if need be and still just be one FTE. So they know in advance how many pages each worker can review for FOIA purposes. The irony here is that it is congress which determines the agency budget in the first place. Even if they attached a provision to the agency budget directing an increase in the number of people working FOIA cases it would still take time to hire and train those people and - here is the real kicker - they would have to be trained by the people who are now doing the job. So that 75 year estimate goes out the window because until the new hires were up to speed there would be fewer people doing the job.
I, as a former government worker, am amused when congress gets pulled over by the weight of their own balls.
I, as a former government worker, am amused when congress gets pulled over by the weight of their own balls.
