Yeah! Since they are probably members in good standing of the Service Employees International Union, they should be... 
smoking and drinking on the job!
Hey, look at it this way. That afternoon, at least they weren’t out harassing innocent citizens or conducting political witch hunts against conservative organizations. As far as I’m concerned all federal employees can spend their days watching movies, we’ll have a much better country for it...
That’s fine with me, but I’d rather not be paying them while they’re watching movies.
I agree, but they still set my teeth on edge with stunts like this:
In a location to remain secret for now, our offices were in the same building as the IRS.
The IRS people, long before Michelle Obama, received some directive to exercise at some point during the day. So they began walking laps in the parking lot. Unfortunately, those bureaucrats reverted to type and took the easy way out...they walked VERY slowly, many of them chain-smoked, and others simply went outside and sat on the curb and chatted away for an hour. Eventually this ‘exercise’ lasted several hours per day if the weather was pleasant.
You definitely didn’t want to be in front of the main doors at 3:30 pm as they cleared out of there as if someone had phoned in a bomb threat.
Given their sordid history, I too would much rather have the IRS off the job but it still was highly annoying toiling away to pay their salaries while we watched them skiving every day.
I know someone else in federal employ in a different agency in a different state. He toted two mobile phones around as if he were important. After taking a golf trip with him, I realized the phones served two purposes: one, to gossip about sexual encounters among office personnel, nearly all of them involving married persons i.e. adultery, and two, to plan, purchase and execute...Friday barbecues on the closed, guarded office campus.
Yeah! Since they are probably members in good standing of the Service Employees International Union, they should be... smoking and drinking on the job!
You beat me to it.