RUMBALLS!

When I was in DC I worked for a Big Evil Defense Contractor. We were on the customer's site, i.e., in the government buildings. Whenever there was a government holiday or liberal leave day (like when it snowed a couple inches), we physically could not gain access to work and had to spend leave.

Of course, my company also promised a certain number of leave days accrued per year, but you'd accrue that many only if you never took any leave.

They're wrapping middled-aged women in Saran Wrap and torturing people while wearing happy masks?

I was hoping beyond hope that you meant that Robert De Niro was rappelling in your window, but I expect it's a good bit grimmer than that.

Maybe they're just revamping the airconditioning and there's ductwork all over the place.

Grappling over the shared desk with the person in the next office?

Yes, yes, no, yes, omnipresent ductwork was preexisting, pretty much.

Somebody back in DC mis-entered something into a computer, so one database says I quit my job (in December, two weeks after I started) and all my security clearances were revoked.

Other security clearance databases don't say this, but the one is causing some problems. Trying to straighten out a case of mistaken identity in a bureaucracy this size makes me want to start drinking.

Not even going to go back and delete or edit.

Why does it feel as though the higher up you go on the org chart the less the common sense?

Garrrrrgh.

Why does it feel as though the higher up you go on the org chart the less the common sense?

Because it is so often true.

squints shirtily at administrators

Why does it feel as though the higher up you go on the org chart the less the common sense?

ask me that aftermatt's current work crisis resolves.

Best thoughts for Matt in his Job Suckage. Did a Bitch send me a post card of the Inner Harbor recently? Cause I can't read the name on it, if you did.

Why does it feel as though the higher up you go on the org chart the less the common sense?

This is why I'm going back to school. My only other option was management and I so don't want to go there.

Why does it feel as though the higher up you go on the org chart the less the common sense?

DH calls this "failing their way to the top." The most incompentent people get moved up and around enough to screw things up but are always gone by the time the shit hits the fan so they never have the taint of failure. It's frustrating for the people beneath them who are the ones who are getting the job done.

Then there's the old thing about rising to the level of your incompetence.

The Peter Principle.