Posted on 01/27/2018 6:26:35 AM PST by TigerClaws
A growing number of State Department employees are charging they are being put in career purgatory because of their previous work on policy priorities associated with President Barack Obama and in offices the Trump administration is interested in closing.
The situation has got so serious that several officials tell CNN they have retained attorneys after repeatedly trying unsuccessfully to raise concerns about being assigned to low-level jobs in Foggy Bottom such as answering Freedom of Information Act requests.
The issue has also come to the attention of senior Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has made clearing a backlog of FOIA requests a priority and reassigned staff to what State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert has called "an all-hands on deck" effort to clear the backlog. Significant progress has been made, and the number of outstanding requests -- which stood at 22,000 in January 2017 -- has been reduced to about 13,000, Tillerson said in November, adding that he hopes the backlog will be cleared by the end of 2018.
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#WINNING
Bureaucrats who have no skills to get jobs in the private sector.
At least they still have jobs. I personally would like to see the State Department go through a RIF. And a bunch of other agencies as well.
Problem is, by the time the dust settles, its not the higher ups that end up on the street. It’s the low level people who end up gone.
Perfect!
As long as the attorneys aren’t somehow being paid with tax dollars.
Yet to CNN Cuomo is a hero...
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Gov. Cuomo has a message for conservative Republicans — you don’t belong in New York.
https://nypost.com/2014/01/18/gov-cuomo-to-conservatives-leave-ny/
I fully support this effort by Rex.
If the pansies can’t handle FOIA requests, then screw them.
Good thing the world has lots ‘n lots of lawyers, huh Martha?
They cannot be fired because they are members of the government workers union, which NEVER should have been allowed in the first place. However, reassigning them from their perches in the Obama dynasty to bathroom monitors in the Trump administration is an excellent idea. In the real world, when a company buys your company, you often lose your job, so these jokers have no reason to whine.
——career purgatory-—
Ahh! great descriptive phrase.
I hope some of the purgatory is TAD to Lower Slabovia where their job is checking names of commercial firms in the phone book.
1. The lab assistants don't get attached to lawyers.
2. Lawyers breed faster and are in much greater supply.
3. PETA won't jump all over you no matter what the experiment.
4. There are some things even a rat won't do.
The director establishes the vision based on the President’s guidane. If they cannot find a way to execute the dierctor’s vision they need to hit the road.
I rather think that these reassignments aren’t based on prior beliefs, but on failure to execute the current mission.
State Dept is an Executive Branch Dept. DJT should be able to do with it as he will, within the constraints of any existing Civil Service requirements.
If he wants to assign them all to crossing guard duty, then he can do it.
Just because they get their libturd panties in wad is not a cause for legal action.
Fire the lot of them. The deep state still lives.
Make them quit
winning
Not needed in old jobs? Don’t like new assignments? Simple: QUIT.
They could not have been very good diplomats. Apparently they are not able to discern the message. You lost and the new boss wants you gone. Time to leave.
hire away and waste your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Under Deputy Secretary to Outbackistan....
Looks good on the resume.
Poor babies being downsized like most of us were from 2009-2011. Cry me a river.
When they put in charge of the paper clip inventory, take a hint.
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