I mean, were you not attempting to make an argument when you said that government employees were “essentially unfirable”? Your argument just sucked/was factually incorrect and you want to steer away from the “interpersonal” aspect of someone pointing that out.
It’s gauche to point this out on HN but you aren’t engaging in good faith here - wnd when someone else engages you in actual good-faith you fall back to juvenile debate-club attempts to frame them as the wrongdoer.
That’s highly rude and a bad attitude and approach to bring to this community. Act better and take some accountability for your own misbehavior.
Sad that both you and the other poster lost the argument so hard that you have to resort to ad hominems and make it about me instead of the topic. Thats very telling. And also look up the meaning of the word essentially.
It is harder to fire govt employees than to fire private employees. Disagree?
At-will employment law doesn't apply to government entities.
A very consequential law is different for private vs govt employees.
> The managers you think can’t direct civil servants directly aren’t magically more capable of selecting and overseeing contracts, either.
Never said in my comment they cannot direct civil servants. They just don't have enough incentive because it's very hard to fire them, unlike managers in the private sector.