The State Department is still moving along with a rather checkered record dealing with employees. It seems that the Department seems most interested in keeping the GS-06s and below in line. The word on the street is that management in OBO is trying to fire a GS-03 for not working hard enough. Hum. The tales we could tell of managers who are mismanaging who are protected at all cost. That is one of life's little ironies.
AFGE 1534 tries but is surely our numbered and out foxed most of the time. Most Department employees realize that associating with AFGE is not the road to career enhancement. That is because AFGE is trying to stand up for the small fish who the Department wishes to fry. Barack Obama's goals for hiring are tossed to the wind in those cases because nine times out of ten the employee being fired or forced out is minority or has a disability.
I was an exception to that rule.
This is a new blog about contracting in the government. Having had the unfortunate experience of being a whistleblower, I have learned something about how waste, fraud, and abuse happens.
