I know someone being retaliated against after requesting just reason able accommodation. managers in government don t like to be challenged. no law will change that. what we need is a change the committee was talking about last night. we need to be able to fire bad managers in v.a. and across government. we need to be able to force these people to say if you re going to put the government in danger of litigation, you need to foot your own bill. that would stop it. what also might stop it, just this obsession with bonuses and rigging the numbers to get the bonuses and using a weird metric to get the bonuses. in other words, those who provide the few he is benefits or spending the least amount of money, ie helping veterans, so the bonuses go.he is benefits or spending the least amount of money, ie helping veterans, so the bonuses go.8ehe is benefits or spending the least amount of money, ie helping veterans, so the bonuses go.she is benefits or spending the least amount of money, ie he
Social security disability will be out of money next year. senator, thank you for clarifying. that care. former ubs ceo says you really want to fix the v.a. problems, then to the senator s point, let the incoming secretary do what he has to do. assuming he s approved. they re not expecting problems in that regard. just come in guns a blazing. at least you have an executive with very good experience. coming from a ceo-ship of a company of that size, top 15 in the world. i almost consider any ceo in the private world heading a multigazillion dollar institution comes in with a lot. i don t think you d get to where he was without exemplifying some professionalism. do you think he got that guarantee from the president? i have a feeling if you were being considered for that job, you would say, mr. president, i
V.a. today. how have you been since? how to your old colleagues treat you? do they avoid you? well, i would say it s a mixture of all the above. i haven t been in the office hatch recent that much recently, but i ve received numerous calls and e-mails and test messages from numerous in the agency and throughout v.a. saying thank you for bringing our cause and what is going on in our particular facility to light. and i believe that in its totality, people at v.a. look what i m doing amd other whistleblowers are doing as a positive thing. and i point out to people you passed up these kind of bonuses because you wanted to get to the bottom of the criteria why they were happeneding out the inghan. they will try to discredit you. i had the opportunity to stop all this by going to opm and
Unless we give him the authority to terminate those people associated with that caorrosive culture, you won t solve anything. if you don t give him will the tools with which to effectively manage the v.a., they won t solve the problem. the v.a. budget has increased 60% over the last four years. the problem is absolutely not money. the problem is accountability, efficiency and hard work. you probably are aware sarah palin and a number of other prominent republicans said enough is enough. it s not so much suing the white house over these type of actions or inactions. sarah palin says impeach him. where do you stand on that is this. i think sarah palin is wrong. into that exercise. time for us what we have to do is concentrate on jobs, fixing health care now that items been totally screwed up and costs have been raised for every
Performing duties they re not trained to perform. for example, i mentioned about this so-called command center at the hec. part of the process as i understand from talking to my colleagues is to make people who perform mail room functions start processing applications for enrollment. weird. now what i m going to ask you, this fellow coming in ostensibly to bang heads at the v.a., he will not the have that power right away. assuming he s confirmed, he ll have to wait for the kind of authority that will let him fire people, get rid of weak performing units, et cetera. is he in for a surprise? i think he s in for a rude awakening. i welcome the opportunity for new leadership at v.a., but i will tell you, it takes more than just bringing in one person. even though we have to wait for legislation, the president can fire political appointees at the