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] ...
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.