Posted on 08/10/2014 8:49:32 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
The lunch lines at the main cafeteria on the sprawling campus of the Food and Drug Administration in White Oak, Md., are bigger than the brunch crowd at 14th Street’s latest farm-to-table, craft-cocktail, artisanal restaurant.
And the staff is struggling to keep up. They’re short at least three employees to help prepare the dragon rolls, work the turkey carving station and replenish the croutons at the double-sided salad bar.
In post-Edward Snowden Washington, hiring for official kitchens and dining halls is grinding to a crawl. Every busboy, dishwasher and cashier requires elaborate background checks, which include lengthy waits for fingerprinting, a credit check and sometimes even a polygraph.
“This says so much about Washington right now,” said David Filbeck, director of staffing at Occasions Caterers, which serves the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress.
Before Snowden, he had to wait less than a week for background checks for his waitstaff. But in recent months, they take up to six weeks, he said.
Why would kitchen staff wade into that bureaucratic rigmarole when they can earn $300 a night working on 14th Street now? “Meanwhile, to work for us, they have to go through the fingerprints and credit checks,” he said. “It just limits the number of people we can send to a State Department dinner or an event at the Supreme Court.”
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Undocumented immigrants, a staple of kitchens across Washington, need not apply for federal jobs. To make matters worse, kitchen staff themselves say they often fail the credit check because they tend to be low-paid and frequently change jobs.
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“There’s a reason kings hired courtiers to taste their food,” said Bill Golden, the chief executive of IntelligenceCareers.com and of USADefenseIndustryJobs.com.
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Meanwhile at the southern border.....
“Meanwhile at the southern border.....”
When talking about the safety of our Federal government nothing is too expensive or too elaborate. But if you’re concerned about your safety you’re racist. Your concerns are overblown. Obviously, you’re a gun clutching, bible clinging conservative aborigine. (uhm.../s?)
Hows about we start with a background check on Barack Buttstain Obama?
Work five nights a week and earn $78,000 per year?
Hmmm - something wrong with that number.
I just tasted this.
This is not chili,
this is some vegetarian's bedpan.
LOL! Looks like chit... smells like chit...
I thought Holder said that it was illegal to check into anything concerning the possible criminal past of any job applicant.
The federal governmetn won’t hire illegals? I find that hard to believe and THAT’S RACIST!
You would be amazed at the number of Muslims who work in the kitchens of our restaurants. You don’t see them. They’re not visible the way the Muslims are at airports or driving taxis. They’re there. For a reason.
OUR MASTERS.............
..........MUST be protected at all costs!
For reference...
Research HSPD12 nd FIPS201 if you are interested in the Fed gov personnel and access security standards.
NAC is required.
And in some states, its illegal for a private employer to even ask an applicant if he or she has a criminal history.
"Sovereign" immunity. I'm saying this with more sarcasm and contempt than usual. /S++
Next time you hear someone say that Government Employees work for “US”, just laugh.
Carving Stations in a Cafeteria? Sounds like a Vegas Buffet.
It is amazing that the nation’s airports can find so many muslims. Going through the whitest of white parts of the country and there are muslims everywhere sweeping floors and pushing people around in wheelchairs.
There is an obscure little cartoon called “The Critic” with John Lovitz. There is an episode where The Critic is stuck in somewhere in the middle east and he has to catch a taxi. All the taxi drivers are from New York. “We’re part of the taxi exchange program, that way no one can understand the taxi drivers here either.”
So...this means Obama couldn’t have even gotten a job bringing Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy their coffee.
Just as well. He’d have just screwed that up too.
Is that amount for a run of the mill dishwasher, busboy or kitchen staff heating some frozen dinner from Sysco? Or is it for the manager of a kitchen with ten years of experience and responsible for the kitchen staff and ordering food for the kitchen? And is this hypothetical 14th Street restaurant a $5 a plate cafeteria or a $50 steak restaurant?
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