MUST WATCH: Former federal employee spills all the secrets about the incompetence and waste in the federal government pic.twitter.com/3RrHeABNWk
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Because I have so many words…
I identify and agree with her. As I’ve said on prior replies, after I retired from the USAF and AIRNG, where we uniformed military personnel, and the occasional civilian employee, were doing our jobs to accomplish the mission.
A year or so after retirement I accepted a position working for the DoD as a civilian employee with dept of defense finance/accounting, stationed at the highly lauded, prestigious USMA.
My overall impression was that lifer, or career civilian employees are to a large extent pretty much as she describes above. My job involved close interactions with some other Army installations and commands, where it was required they performed specific tasks, relatively new to them, as compared to their previous duties and responsibilities and how they were performed. Their refusal to do these tasks adversely affected the pay and reimbursement of out of pocket expenses for hundreds of regular enlisted soldiers in an ongoing basis, aside from the installation travel credit card being suspended by the major national credit card company adversely affected mission accomplishment.
It was a very frustrating environment. I retired soon after I turned 62.
I’m trying to be surprised…but I’m not. It happens with DoD contractors… “time-waste”.
My mate also was a DOD employee. He was brought up to believe hard work and no slacking. About a year in, he was told to slow down he was making the rest of them look bad. He was the only one promoted. He was happy to retire at 62, the waste was depressing.