Not supporting Muriel Bowser anymore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The assault she’s unleashing on federal workers by solely blaming them for downtown DC not being “vibrant” because of remote work, is just so out of touch. And she’s aligning with the incoming administration? Has she lost her mind? I’m angry at this. I just want to vent. Why are feds always targeted unfairly for everything?

Now you can blame Trump and stop blaming her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is a hot take, but I'm going to avoid places where there's a high rate of crime, which these days seems to be most of DC.

I live and work in DC. I don't feel this at all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is a hot take, but I'm going to avoid places where there's a high rate of crime, which these days seems to be most of DC.

I live and work in DC. I don't feel this at all!

Agree. Tale as old as time. In the DC area, people in further out suburbs have always acted like the city is poison and terrible and crime ridden. They wouldn't know as they barely go to the city. But I spend most of my days in DC and rarely encounter crime or even disorder.

[Anonymous]

With all her obsession… seems like all she will be getting is unemployed Feds smh

[Anonymous]

We are going backwords. We might as well get rid of computers and give everyone typewriters. We know that many people can work from home, workers like the option, most workers are MORE productive at home.
Downtowns need a complete reimagining and we need to quit acting likes its the 1960s and everyone is going to work in one central place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going backwords. We might as well get rid of computers and give everyone typewriters. We know that many people can work from home, workers like the option, most workers are MORE productive at home.
Downtowns need a complete reimagining and we need to quit acting likes its the 1960s and everyone is going to work in one central place.

This. It's clearly becoming "let's own the peasants" game for the elites. When arguments about productivity are hard to win, they are now about "fairness" towards other workers whose jobs cannot be done remotely, like this has anything to do with it.

They just want to own every minute of your time, not just production value. And likely more in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going backwords. We might as well get rid of computers and give everyone typewriters. We know that many people can work from home, workers like the option, most workers are MORE productive at home.
Downtowns need a complete reimagining and we need to quit acting likes its the 1960s and everyone is going to work in one central place.

+1

It’s like trying to convince people to go back to the horse and buggy as Model A’s were rolling off the assembly lines.

[Anonymous]

Why did two of her top leaders leave DHS Director Laura Zeilinger and Deputy Mayor Keith Anderson? They seemed top notch.

[Anonymous]

Because they could not longer work under her dysfunctional administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did two of her top leaders leave DHS Director Laura Zeilinger and Deputy Mayor Keith Anderson? They seemed top notch.

Anonymous wrote:Because they could not longer work under her dysfunctional administration.

So they chose to leave? Or were they told to leave?

[Anonymous]

I worked high up in a District agency for about a year. The disfunction is incredible.
Much of this comes down to the Mayor who surrounds herself with sycophants. She cannot have a bad idea and is so far into her depth chart that the people in charge of many agencies aren't exactly thinkers, so their feedback isn't going to be useful most of the time.

Staff I encountered was usually great though some agency heads want to turn a blind eye to staff corruption.

I encountered really low staff morale, a mostly blase form of management, and a handful of people looking to fill their pockets.

Some agencies big and small seemed to lurch from "emergency" to "emergency" because a random citizen or business would manage to reach the mayor on an issue. Let's say someone emails the mayor directly. She passes that down to a deputy mayor who then forwards the email to an agency director. The director will then direct their agency - sometimes hundreds of people - to address what is in the email. This occurs even if the agency has already been working with the person, has its own complaint system, or, in some cases, has already resolved the issue though not in favor of the person emailing the mayor. None of that matters and significant amounts of daily work will cease until that issue is addressed, even if it is just addressed again.

This means that systemic issues or larger, complex issues are ignored while working on smaller one-off issues that may well be addressed if the larger systemic issues are addressed.

Several agency directors try to always wear something green or have something green available just in case the mayor swings by unannounced or they have to head to the Wilson Building. This not-quite-bunker mentality of needing to soothe the Mayor at all times, even when the Mayor's whims are unpredictable (unless we are talking her biological need of ensuring the DC Chamber is happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked high up in a District agency for about a year. The disfunction is incredible.
Much of this comes down to the Mayor who surrounds herself with sycophants. She cannot have a bad idea and is so far into her depth chart that the people in charge of many agencies aren't exactly thinkers, so their feedback isn't going to be useful most of the time.

Staff I encountered was usually great though some agency heads want to turn a blind eye to staff corruption.

I encountered really low staff morale, a mostly blase form of management, and a handful of people looking to fill their pockets.

Some agencies big and small seemed to lurch from "emergency" to "emergency" because a random citizen or business would manage to reach the mayor on an issue. Let's say someone emails the mayor directly. She passes that down to a deputy mayor who then forwards the email to an agency director. The director will then direct their agency - sometimes hundreds of people - to address what is in the email. This occurs even if the agency has already been working with the person, has its own complaint system, or, in some cases, has already resolved the issue though not in favor of the person emailing the mayor. None of that matters and significant amounts of daily work will cease until that issue is addressed, even if it is just addressed again.

This means that systemic issues or larger, complex issues are ignored while working on smaller one-off issues that may well be addressed if the larger systemic issues are addressed.

Several agency directors try to always wear something green or have something green available just in case the mayor swings by unannounced or they have to head to the Wilson Building. This not-quite-bunker mentality of needing to soothe the Mayor at all times, even when the Mayor's whims are unpredictable (unless we are talking her biological need of ensuring the DC Chamber is happy.

Why green?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked high up in a District agency for about a year. The disfunction is incredible.
Much of this comes down to the Mayor who surrounds herself with sycophants. She cannot have a bad idea and is so far into her depth chart that the people in charge of many agencies aren't exactly thinkers, so their feedback isn't going to be useful most of the time.

Staff I encountered was usually great though some agency heads want to turn a blind eye to staff corruption.

I encountered really low staff morale, a mostly blase form of management, and a handful of people looking to fill their pockets.

Some agencies big and small seemed to lurch from "emergency" to "emergency" because a random citizen or business would manage to reach the mayor on an issue. Let's say someone emails the mayor directly. She passes that down to a deputy mayor who then forwards the email to an agency director. The director will then direct their agency - sometimes hundreds of people - to address what is in the email. This occurs even if the agency has already been working with the person, has its own complaint system, or, in some cases, has already resolved the issue though not in favor of the person emailing the mayor. None of that matters and significant amounts of daily work will cease until that issue is addressed, even if it is just addressed again.

This means that systemic issues or larger, complex issues are ignored while working on smaller one-off issues that may well be addressed if the larger systemic issues are addressed.

Several agency directors try to always wear something green or have something green available just in case the mayor swings by unannounced or they have to head to the Wilson Building. This not-quite-bunker mentality of needing to soothe the Mayor at all times, even when the Mayor's whims are unpredictable (unless we are talking her biological need of ensuring the DC Chamber is happy.

Why green?

Green Team. That started with Adrian Fenty or even maybe Marion Barry.

She did a great job with the tragic plane crash. Her stock just rose. She can run again and should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked high up in a District agency for about a year. The disfunction is incredible.
Much of this comes down to the Mayor who surrounds herself with sycophants. She cannot have a bad idea and is so far into her depth chart that the people in charge of many agencies aren't exactly thinkers, so their feedback isn't going to be useful most of the time.

Staff I encountered was usually great though some agency heads want to turn a blind eye to staff corruption.

I encountered really low staff morale, a mostly blase form of management, and a handful of people looking to fill their pockets.

Some agencies big and small seemed to lurch from "emergency" to "emergency" because a random citizen or business would manage to reach the mayor on an issue. Let's say someone emails the mayor directly. She passes that down to a deputy mayor who then forwards the email to an agency director. The director will then direct their agency - sometimes hundreds of people - to address what is in the email. This occurs even if the agency has already been working with the person, has its own complaint system, or, in some cases, has already resolved the issue though not in favor of the person emailing the mayor. None of that matters and significant amounts of daily work will cease until that issue is addressed, even if it is just addressed again.

This means that systemic issues or larger, complex issues are ignored while working on smaller one-off issues that may well be addressed if the larger systemic issues are addressed.

Several agency directors try to always wear something green or have something green available just in case the mayor swings by unannounced or they have to head to the Wilson Building. This not-quite-bunker mentality of needing to soothe the Mayor at all times, even when the Mayor's whims are unpredictable (unless we are talking her biological need of ensuring the DC Chamber is happy.

But her policies don't help members of the DC Chamber. DC is incredibly difficult to do business in.

I worked in DC government for 2 years. Lots of smart dedicated people. Lots of dumb people. Just like my current job.

I also worked in city government in another city. The biggest difference was that every DC agency is political. They all try to outdo each other with their support of the Mayor and they do her bidding instead of just serving the community. When I worked in the MAYOR's office in another city, we just did our job. We didn't feel like we had to serve every whim of the Mayor. And we worked in his office. DC is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked high up in a District agency for about a year. The disfunction is incredible.
Much of this comes down to the Mayor who surrounds herself with sycophants. She cannot have a bad idea and is so far into her depth chart that the people in charge of many agencies aren't exactly thinkers, so their feedback isn't going to be useful most of the time.

Staff I encountered was usually great though some agency heads want to turn a blind eye to staff corruption.

I encountered really low staff morale, a mostly blase form of management, and a handful of people looking to fill their pockets.

Some agencies big and small seemed to lurch from "emergency" to "emergency" because a random citizen or business would manage to reach the mayor on an issue. Let's say someone emails the mayor directly. She passes that down to a deputy mayor who then forwards the email to an agency director. The director will then direct their agency - sometimes hundreds of people - to address what is in the email. This occurs even if the agency has already been working with the person, has its own complaint system, or, in some cases, has already resolved the issue though not in favor of the person emailing the mayor. None of that matters and significant amounts of daily work will cease until that issue is addressed, even if it is just addressed again.

This means that systemic issues or larger, complex issues are ignored while working on smaller one-off issues that may well be addressed if the larger systemic issues are addressed.

Several agency directors try to always wear something green or have something green available just in case the mayor swings by unannounced or they have to head to the Wilson Building. This not-quite-bunker mentality of needing to soothe the Mayor at all times, even when the Mayor's whims are unpredictable (unless we are talking her biological need of ensuring the DC Chamber is happy.

But her policies don't help members of the DC Chamber. DC is incredibly difficult to do business in.

I worked in DC government for 2 years. Lots of smart dedicated people. Lots of dumb people. Just like my current job.

I also worked in city government in another city. The biggest difference was that every DC agency is political. They all try to outdo each other with their support of the Mayor and they do her bidding instead of just serving the community. When I worked in the MAYOR's office in another city, we just did our job. We didn't feel like we had to serve every whim of the Mayor. And we worked in his office. DC is crazy.