[E. Pluribus Unum]

The old "the dog ate my homework" excuse.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

I was out of town when that happened.

[MtnClimber]

DEI rules will do that. Why I resigned from my job of 33 years. I have nothing, but loathing for DEI.

[SpaceBar]

Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence....

Sounds like the beginning of a story about Calcutta sewer divers of the untouchable caste, but no, it's about privileged comfortable white-collar federal employees.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"For months, alarm had been spreading through the executive offices on the eighth floor of the Secret Service headquarters in Washington over the flight of experienced talent like Mr. Ebey."

They don't want to hear it and will keep kicking cans down roads until, in this case, people start getting shot or killed. It disproves the DEI theory that everyone is equal and replacable.

[NonValueAdded]

White males need not apply

[Revel]

I bet that many of those people left because of what the leadership had done to the SS.

[TalBlack]

So where did they find the twelve agents to put on Dr. Jill at a supermarket opening or some damn thing?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Forgot to mention that they turned down a lot of special forces types because they would embarrass the pansies they were planning to hire from the Ivy Leagues for Management Positions.