There are No Gov't Workers, just Gov't employees - Wasteful High Jinks at the Labor Department

The ultimate oxymoron: Government workers.

“None of these things,” summed up one source, “create jobs in America.”

Government just takes, it does not make, except problems for us! m/r

Wasteful High Jinks at the Labor Department | National Review Online

By Quin Hillyer  2-6-14

Staffers slam DOL busy work, propaganda, and favoritism.

Obama’s Department of Labor appointees have shaken things up at the Department, but probably not in ways you would expect. An investigation of DOL practices reveals that Obama appointees are wasting time and resources with public-relations busy work, weird morale-boosting exercises, and many other activities that have nothing to do with helping U.S. workers.

Current and former DOL employees spoke with National Review Online about workplace shenanigans that they say interfere with the department’s mission, which is to promote the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees; improve working conditions; “advance opportunities” for employment; and “assure work-related benefits and rights.”

Four DOL insiders agreed to be quoted by NRO while others provided additional details and corroboration. All requested anonymity and expressed fear of retaliation. All described a workplace where pressure to join in time- and money-wasting activities unrelated to job tasks was subtle but insistent.

Among the examples of waste current and former Labor Department staffers described to NRO:

1) A series of glossy, expensive, time-consuming, politically charged, and controversial posters displayed in every elevator at the main building of the Department of Labor.

2) Instructions from political appointees for employees to vote in an online religious poll to declare Frances Perkins, the New Deal–era secretary of Labor, a favorite saint.

3) Insistent instructions to staff to participate in a poetry contest.

4) Staff time and money (including on fees) for communications-industry award applications.

5) Staff time and money, along with a $100,000+ contract with an outside communications firm, to promote a national book club revolving around “work, workers, and workplaces and . . . about [the] department’s mission and history.”

6) Use of the department’s (i.e., the taxpayers’) funds to hire a mascot of the Washington Nationals to cheer up employees when sequestration began.

These high jinks began before the arrival of current Labor secretary Thomas Perez. 

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