I swear I did not make this up! From a copy of Federal Computing magazine:

Delays, image hurt IT workforce BY Greg Langlois

"Workforce reforms in store" [Federal Computer Week, March 26, 2001]

"Report: Flexibility key to staffing woes" [Federal Computer Week, March 26, 2001]

"Workforce woes make GAO's high-risk list" [Federal Computer Week, Jan. 22, 2001]

"The government's cumbersome hiring process and poor pubic image — not necessarily its relatively low pay — are keeping information technology workers away, members of an IT recruitment and retention workshop said Monday."

I've heard of anthropomorphicizing the Gummint, but this is ree-DICK-lous!:>)

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