JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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I have worked off and on for the US government as a contractor, usually in short 6 month contracts, though some were shorter and some went for years. I worked with many other software engineers who had worked in other agencies, and so this is my review of the people I met their culture and their attitude about the American people or heard about through friends. I have never been fired or given a negative review except twice and both were at a places I liked and worked at for many years and the bad reviews eventually were removed from my files. The worst places I left of my own volition, eager to work among competent people that did not make my skin crawl.
I am using a scale of -10 to +10, with -10 being outrageously incompetent, hateful of the American people and filled with jerks who would run down their own mothers for a COLA increase, and +10 being secular saints who got everything right, missed nothing and loved the USA and their fellow countrymen.
-10. At the bottom of the pile is the SEC. The Security and Exchange commission is the epitome of stupidity, incompetence, arrogance and disdain for anything about the people of the USA. When I read that there was a scandal regarding a good number of SEC employees who spent the entirety of their days downloading and trading porn on the job and doing things that should not be done on the clock I was totally not surprised at all. The SEC epitomizes the object of the phrase 'Who watches the watch dogs?'
-9.9 The Department of education has been described to me as a nest of communists and people who often sleep at their desks. Everyone I knew who worked there told me that they view the American people as an enemy, and themselves as martyrs suffering for the good of a thankless people. But I am also told these people are generally very erudite and well read. I think I would prefer them stupid as the SEC.
-8. The Department of Justus is competent, but maybe that is not a good thing. They have some of the most arrogant attorneys I have ever met in my life and humorless when around those not in their little club. It is full of sycophantic minions who engage in daily back-stabbing office politics for crumbs sometimes so measly as who has their desk a little closer to an attorneys office. I never heard one good thing said about the American people the whole time I was there and often heard insulting condescending things said about them, almost daily. The admiration I heard expressed there for any European Socialist state was almost seditious. The American people do not have any friends working at the DOJ, at least not in DC.
+5. The Department of Energy is a group of competent people, who said little about politics or the American people but the general impression I had was a positive one. Most of them were veterans of the energy industry and they had a hands on attitude toward problem solving and first understanding a situation well prior to tackling it. The only thing bad I have to say is that they were buying out older government people when I left and every one of the people that replaced them were minorities of various types. Not one new hire was a white heterosexual American-born male. I have seen this happen in many other government agencies as well. It would seem to explain quite abit of the prevailing government culture.
+7. US Postal Service; sharp people, every one. Never heard much positive said about the American people, but these people do know their jobs very well and they are eager to get things done. The same can be said for the US Treasury Department. Good people every one of them.
+7.5 NIH is very competent and they never missed a turn. Again, not much there I saw positive in their view of the American people, but like the US Postal Service they put mission first and stayed on top of things daily. No visible office politics or bad vibes at all.
+8 The IRS are, believe it or not, full of people who want to best serve the American people. When there was a series of scandals about IRS management policies in some offices out West, I knew of and one person personally who resigned their jobs for SHAME and none of the scandal involved any of them or people that they worked with. It was shame about the agency's reputation (they later went back). I had some very positive expressions about the USA and its culture and people. They are simply not the evil bastards that so many seem to think they are, and when I hear of some people wanting to defund the IRS and go to a flat tax, though I want a flat tax also, I do hurt in my heart for the kind of people I met at the IRS.
+9.8 The Defense Department has its incompetents, but they are very few and far between. That department is mindful of its service to the American people and full of unlimited commitment to us and the Republic. It was always clear that they were completely committed to their mission defending the American people, and I admired and was in awe of so many of the people I knew there. I wish I could have continued to work for them, but my slipped disk ended my career working as a contractor for them. I want to say that my last two people I worked for ( young black woman and an older white man) were the two best people I worked for in my twenty years. I still feel ashamed that I left them in such abrupt circumstances. I still feel I let them down, but I must give priority to my own health at this time. I wish to God I could still work for them.
+11 The US Marshall's service is above and beyond the most competent and devoted service to the American people I ever met. I felt like I was working for John Wayne sometimes. These were some of the toughest, bravest and most devoted people I have ever known, everyone of them a hero or a hero as yet not known.. Ruby Ridge just confuses the hell out of me because that was so contrary to the kind of men and women I met working for the Marshall's service. If we are fated to be ruled by an agency that took over the federal government and ran it from the top, while it would not be the Republic I am loyal to, were the rulers to be composed of the Marshall's Service, it would be a paradise, I have no doubt.
+7. Overall, the US federal government has some of the best people in the world working for it, but also some of the worst, as it should be, I suppose. But the variance I saw between agencies emphasized in my mind the importance of the leadership establishing a solid, people oriented culture from the very tip top and how it permeated on down to the desk jockey's themselves.
Obamacare is not typical of our government. The problem is that this government simply has bad leadership, and who is surprised by that, as it comes from the Daley political machine from Chicago?
I am using a scale of -10 to +10, with -10 being outrageously incompetent, hateful of the American people and filled with jerks who would run down their own mothers for a COLA increase, and +10 being secular saints who got everything right, missed nothing and loved the USA and their fellow countrymen.
-10. At the bottom of the pile is the SEC. The Security and Exchange commission is the epitome of stupidity, incompetence, arrogance and disdain for anything about the people of the USA. When I read that there was a scandal regarding a good number of SEC employees who spent the entirety of their days downloading and trading porn on the job and doing things that should not be done on the clock I was totally not surprised at all. The SEC epitomizes the object of the phrase 'Who watches the watch dogs?'
-9.9 The Department of education has been described to me as a nest of communists and people who often sleep at their desks. Everyone I knew who worked there told me that they view the American people as an enemy, and themselves as martyrs suffering for the good of a thankless people. But I am also told these people are generally very erudite and well read. I think I would prefer them stupid as the SEC.
-8. The Department of Justus is competent, but maybe that is not a good thing. They have some of the most arrogant attorneys I have ever met in my life and humorless when around those not in their little club. It is full of sycophantic minions who engage in daily back-stabbing office politics for crumbs sometimes so measly as who has their desk a little closer to an attorneys office. I never heard one good thing said about the American people the whole time I was there and often heard insulting condescending things said about them, almost daily. The admiration I heard expressed there for any European Socialist state was almost seditious. The American people do not have any friends working at the DOJ, at least not in DC.
+5. The Department of Energy is a group of competent people, who said little about politics or the American people but the general impression I had was a positive one. Most of them were veterans of the energy industry and they had a hands on attitude toward problem solving and first understanding a situation well prior to tackling it. The only thing bad I have to say is that they were buying out older government people when I left and every one of the people that replaced them were minorities of various types. Not one new hire was a white heterosexual American-born male. I have seen this happen in many other government agencies as well. It would seem to explain quite abit of the prevailing government culture.
+7. US Postal Service; sharp people, every one. Never heard much positive said about the American people, but these people do know their jobs very well and they are eager to get things done. The same can be said for the US Treasury Department. Good people every one of them.
+7.5 NIH is very competent and they never missed a turn. Again, not much there I saw positive in their view of the American people, but like the US Postal Service they put mission first and stayed on top of things daily. No visible office politics or bad vibes at all.
+8 The IRS are, believe it or not, full of people who want to best serve the American people. When there was a series of scandals about IRS management policies in some offices out West, I knew of and one person personally who resigned their jobs for SHAME and none of the scandal involved any of them or people that they worked with. It was shame about the agency's reputation (they later went back). I had some very positive expressions about the USA and its culture and people. They are simply not the evil bastards that so many seem to think they are, and when I hear of some people wanting to defund the IRS and go to a flat tax, though I want a flat tax also, I do hurt in my heart for the kind of people I met at the IRS.
+9.8 The Defense Department has its incompetents, but they are very few and far between. That department is mindful of its service to the American people and full of unlimited commitment to us and the Republic. It was always clear that they were completely committed to their mission defending the American people, and I admired and was in awe of so many of the people I knew there. I wish I could have continued to work for them, but my slipped disk ended my career working as a contractor for them. I want to say that my last two people I worked for ( young black woman and an older white man) were the two best people I worked for in my twenty years. I still feel ashamed that I left them in such abrupt circumstances. I still feel I let them down, but I must give priority to my own health at this time. I wish to God I could still work for them.
+11 The US Marshall's service is above and beyond the most competent and devoted service to the American people I ever met. I felt like I was working for John Wayne sometimes. These were some of the toughest, bravest and most devoted people I have ever known, everyone of them a hero or a hero as yet not known.. Ruby Ridge just confuses the hell out of me because that was so contrary to the kind of men and women I met working for the Marshall's service. If we are fated to be ruled by an agency that took over the federal government and ran it from the top, while it would not be the Republic I am loyal to, were the rulers to be composed of the Marshall's Service, it would be a paradise, I have no doubt.
+7. Overall, the US federal government has some of the best people in the world working for it, but also some of the worst, as it should be, I suppose. But the variance I saw between agencies emphasized in my mind the importance of the leadership establishing a solid, people oriented culture from the very tip top and how it permeated on down to the desk jockey's themselves.
Obamacare is not typical of our government. The problem is that this government simply has bad leadership, and who is surprised by that, as it comes from the Daley political machine from Chicago?
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