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When I used to work for the federal government, an employee received a bonus check for suggesting that the entance to the new building needed a nice new carpet. The carpet was put in and oweing to the light blue color was extremely dirty looking all the time. Now that is how the government rewards so-called government service.

Contrast that with my suggestions to improve the service, which were routinely implemented amd credited to someone else.

Also, about the time radon was being monitored across the nation, I bought a radon detector kit and left it in my work area for monitoring purposes. The geographic location and the layout of the building made me think high radon in my place of work was possible.

Anyway, I got the analysis back showing a small amount of radon. Further testing may have been warranted at that point. Eventually I informed the regional head of the employees union what I had done and the only result that I know of was that the union ended up with brand spanking new offices, complete with its own air handling equipment right next to the management offices. No improvement in the work area of 95 percent of the workers.

When the new computer terminals were laid under the floor, a major construction effort went forward, complete with tearing up asbestos laden tile and sawing through asbestos laden concrete, all just 25 feet from where alot of people worked. Of course the plastic sheet protected all of us. Not!

And then there was the lady who decided to bring a gun to work for who knows what, suicide was conjectured, a covered disability, (she was not fired for this) shortly after the armed guards were removed from the site al la the Energy department under O'Leary. It was a zoo I tell ya.