Posted on 02/11/2017 9:49:56 AM PST by Zakeet
Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump's arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.
At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their resumes.
At the United States Digital Service - the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration - workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups.
"It's almost a sense of dread, as in, what will happen to us," said Gabrielle Martin, a trial lawyer and 30-year veteran at the Denver office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where colleagues now share daily, grim predictions about the fate of their jobs under Mr. Trump’s leadership.
"It's like the movie music when the shark is coming," Ms. Martin said, referring to “Jaws,” the 1975 thriller. "People are just wary - is the shark going to come up out of the water?"
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Made me think of this movie quote from ‘Christine.’
George LeBay: “My asshole brother bought her back in September ‘57. That’s when you got your new model year, in September. Brand-new, she was. She had the smell of a brand-new car. That’s just about the finest smell in the world, ‘cept maybe for pu$$y.”
Their misery and anxiety is my joy. Heh hey heh.....
Wilbur Ross and Carl Ichan going to quickly drain this pestilence
figure 800,000 non-esstential federals gone by 2020
"Hello? Some of my colleagues are planning to slow walk their work as slow as they can without getting fired..."
Love the smell of gun oil.
How many of us make that much actually working.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.
At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their résumés.
At the United States Digital Service — the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration — workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups."
In my mind .. and I do work in the civil service .. the bureaucracy functions as an adjunct to the Executive Branch of the government. The function of the civil service is to carry out the day-to-day operations of the government, of which the President is the head of the Executive Branch.
I liken it to working in any other type of office. If I don't like the way the boss is running things, I first try to approach him/her to find out why they are doing what they're doing and suggest better, more efficient ways to do what we're doing. However, in the end, I either do it the way he/she wants .. following the rules of the office .. or I can quit if it bothers me enough.
Once I quit, I can tell everyone why I quit. Until that time, I grumble to myself and do my job as required ... [shut up and sing] ...
Anybody planning to slow walk his plans should be fired already.
I hope it as obvious to the Trump team as it is to us that they need to fire as many of these rat holdovers as the law will allow.
I have specific duties and, from that, an expected and measurable output is required. I don't have time to watch any porn on my computer .. in fact, the computer is set up so that I can't access video or music websites at all. I take a couple of minutes every few hours or so to check the headlines on FreeRepublic, but, basically, I access no other non-mission required internet sites.
I have more than enough work to do every day to keep more busy.
Perhaps there should be a reward offered for anyone outing the scum in their department, ya think?
Conspiracy to commit sedition. These "scientists" should be fired immediately and then indicted.
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>> “At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of ‘scientists’ strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.” <<
Let the firings begin!
There is no “science” involved in the activities of the EPA, only propaganda in the guise of ‘science.’
Let the dread roll in!
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Good.
More.
Faster.
Run, bitches.
Workers at the EPA are talking about how to obstruct the President?Fire them,fire them all!
feel good story of the year
Everyone is just on the edge of a nervous breakdown these days.
What a bunch of wusses.
The Bible speaks about nests of vipers.There’s one right there.
My fantasies will be fulfilled.
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