Your Tax Dollars at Work
An anonymous quote from an employee at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
"Let me give you the honest truth: A lot of FMCS employees don't do a hell of a lot, including myself. Personally, the reason that I've stayed is that I just don't feel like working that hard, plus the location on K Street is great, plus we all have these oversized offices with windows, plus management doesn't seem to care if we stay out at lunch a long time. Can you blame me?"
This is actually the least of the problems in the agency -- fraud appears to be rampant. The Washington Examiner has a five part series.
Another_Brian:
You can fill in just about any government agency's name into this quote and it would still be accurate.
November 27, 2013, 9:00 amBram:
I like this guy - he's honest. And I would rather he took long lunches than "doing something" like creating new regulations.
November 27, 2013, 1:44 pmmesaeconoguy:
This applies to most of government right now, and worldwide.
The amount of resource suckage and misallocation caused by this public sector greed and fraud has effectively destroyed a generation of productivity, and when you throw in the Baby Boomer black hole about to hit, things get really bad.
How the hell did this happen so quickly?
November 27, 2013, 4:38 pm