Public employment tenure per se is not that difficult an obstacle to removing an incompetent employee. One has to document poor behavior and have the patience for progressive discipline. Gross misbehavior or illegal activity does not necessarily ensure speedy termination. The impediment to removing incompetent employees is finding supervisors in the chain of command with the fortitude to act on unacceptable behavior. In the lower ranks of management virtually all the supervisors are promoted from union jobs. Their hearts and minds are not necessarily attuned with accountability. Many union contracts have reversion clauses that allows supervisors to return to union jobs. Not many supervisors will offend the union on the possibility that they may become a member again But even more importantly, in public sector jobs accountability and efficiency are dim concepts. Public sector supervisory promotion is rarely correlated with improving productivity or getting rid of deadwood employees.