Federal agencies with toxic managers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State has management issues on the CS side under the M umbrella. Too many supervisors or newbies from other agencies that don’t understand how things are run at State.

State has issues across the agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State has management issues on the CS side under the M umbrella. Too many supervisors or newbies from other agencies that don’t understand how things are run at State.

Tell me that you were born at State without telling me you were born at State.

[Anonymous]

All of them have toxic management. You can't avoid it. With federal agencies, there is no bottom line as there is in private industry, so problem folks are either tolerated or even promoted upwards (and away). So there is a lot of bad management and it never gets dealt with and there isn't anything to do about it but suffer or learn to deal with it.

[Anonymous]

I work for a tiny office (around 30 people total) at a large agency and even on my team (6 people), there are differences. My manager is overall fine with me, but an unbearable nightmare with one of my colleagues. A manager on another team in our office is apparently a jerk who plays favorites...there would be no way of knowing unless you had a friend on the inside before joining...

[Anonymous]

About a year ago there was a 30 page thread about toxic federal agencies. I seem to recall USAID OIG won.

[Anonymous]

Look at the best places to work rankings from the Partnership for Public Service. They go down to lower levels by office and have employee ratings of their management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agencies are huge. They all have toxic managers and wonderful ones.

Exactly - agree with PP, it depends on your office. You could be in a great agency but have bad office managers.

Also, you could end up in a great office only to have management turn over and it becomes bad within the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About a year ago there was a 30 page thread about toxic federal agencies. I seem to recall USAID OIG won.

I remember that thread! It was so entertaining (and sad) to read. I was curious and I went to USAID OIG website. I read the leadership team bios. what a sad looking and inexperienced group of senior leaders.