View of the Department of State in Washington, DC. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)
Elise Labott, CNN: Exclusive: Frustrated State Department employees hire attorneys, charging 'political retribution'
Washington (CNN)A growing number of State Department employees are charging they are being put in career purgatory because of their previous work on policy priorities associated with President Barack Obama and in offices the Trump administration is interested in closing.
The situation has got so serious that several officials tell CNN they have retained attorneys after repeatedly trying unsuccessfully to raise concerns about being assigned to low-level jobs in Foggy Bottom such as answering Freedom of Information Act requests.
The issue has also come to the attention of senior Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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WNU Editor: I have lost count on the number of times I have heard in my life that "we are too good for this kind of work" routine. My solution .... get a job in the private sector where your "brilliance" will be appreciated.
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Buhu, I myself work for the government in my country (Sweden), and a lot off my collegues are mostly interested in the benifits and not interested in doing a good job.
Private employes have five weeks in private sector. As a state employe you get 28 days before you are 30. After 30 you get 31. And finally at 40 you get 35.
That sound like day care centers
I'd be pissed too if I had been working on something for years just to have these political hacks come in..
That's what happened to the border patrol, increase the force size but make everyone sit in an office doing administrative work instead of going out in the field and doing their job...
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