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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_j73fq5s wrote

NYCHA suffers from staffing, productivity and resource issues. They lack the imagination or talent to tackle big projects and find themselves constantly playing catchup. Oversight and accountability are needed at every level, to make sure that good employees at NYCHA do their job (and the tough ones like removing asbestos and getting them off gas) and that bad employees are ousted.

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[deleted] t1_j75irz9 wrote

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chipperclocker t1_j7ejibz wrote

Take an exam and wait months to hear if you can apply for a job? No wonder they can't attract talent, the process for city jobs is insane to begin with.

I get that you might want to make it a pretty straightforward aptitude-based program if we take the view that a bureaucracy relies on reliable but otherwise unremarkable people performing otherwise unremarkable jobs as some sort of jobs program - nothing wrong here - but don't leave those people hanging for months at a time. Anybody who has a better option is gonna take it. Instead of getting a mix of motivated and civic-minded people with people who really just need reliable work, the city only ends up with the truly desperate or those who are convinced their patience will be rewarded by grift. City employees and taxpayers deserve better.

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WickhamAkimbo t1_j78bpme wrote

The city and state leadership as a whole are rife with inefficiency and corruption. The ultimate bosses of these huge bureaucracies are the people of New York, who unfortunately are not competent enough to hold the leadership accountable in any meaningful way. It's a situation that can be improved, but not without a lot of hard work, better education, and more selfless civic engagement.

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Honest_Ice_7239 t1_j7b0s1g wrote

Nycha employees have orgies on the clock. I don't know what's worse than the MTA or nycha

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wantmywings t1_j78rzps wrote

I work in this field and I would cut off my own arm before working for this salary range and dealing with the people living there

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