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This is the way it works, people. You send me your stories--they might be silly, they might seem insignificant--and I post them here.

Here's a story I got today that shows how the government can screw up something as simple as getting a new office:

I work at a Federal agency that is notorious, to say the least, for having serious IT problems. Here's an example of how crazy things are. A colleague of mine, who had been the acting supervisor of her office for several months after her former boss was promoted, recently had the "acting" removed from her title and was made supervisor. She continued working in her cubicle for a while, but then finally decided to move all her stuff to the old supervisor's office. She got her phone line/voice mail moved, files, etc. 

There was just one problem: she also put in a request to have her computer (i.e., her access to network/shared drives, etc.) moved to the new office -- and it took over THREE WEEKS for the IT folks to finally get her all set up on the computer in her new office! In the meantime, she had to keep working at her computer in her old, otherwise empty cubicle, while jumping up and running to her new office whenever she heard her phone ring.  

Can you imagine this happening anywhere in the private sector -- an employee gets promoted and moved to a new office, and it takes the IT gang 3 weeks to set up her computer in the new office?

Veterans of government employment shrug our shoulders and roll our eyes. So what? That's the way government works. But people in the real world, people in the private sector, have no clue that this is business as usual for the FatCratz in DC. 

Social value of airing stories like these? Do we really want these people running our healthcare? Designing our automobiles?

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