New Information on John Falcicchio - This Looks Horrible for the Mayor

[Anonymous]

I'm a longtime therapist in the DMV, and I've had patients who have worked for the DC government, in the mayor's office and at agencies. Let me tell you that I've heard *a lot* of horror stories about how people are treated, the dysfunction, and in many cases the rank misogyny. It seems pretty awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

Falcicchio started off being known as "Pizza Guy" and became "Johnny Business." Was he also Bowser's delivery guy to/from DC developers?

[Anonymous]

Where is he working now? Is he off the books but still working for Bowser?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is he working now? Is he off the books but still working for Bowser?

Working with the DC developers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

internalized misogyny and internalized racism, for starters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

internalized misogyny and internalized racism, for starters.

Discrimination can be perpetrated by one minority against another, too. There are very few Latinos in DC government, despite the large percentage of Latinos in the District.

I have worked for three agency heads in DC, with each somehow worse than the last. Part of it is likely due to Bowser's demand for loyalists, which reduces the size of the talent pool, not to mention former agency heads moving on to other jobs or ousted due to scandal. But I think some blame also goes to the Mayor's Office of Talent and Appointments, which allegedly vets candidates. MOTA runs the personnel part of the District's spoils system. (Lucrative government contracts are the other major part of Bowser's spoils system.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

internalized misogyny and internalized racism, for starters.

This is a hackneyed and cliched line of reasoning. All that matters is being connected in the DC Government. I guarantee a non college educated white guy who is a CS 7 would go through the wringer filing a grievance against his politically connected, MS 15 boss who was a Black woman who worked as a Ward Captain for Team Green.

Class and being part of the Green Team club matter far more than race and gender in the DC Government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

Yeah, agree. Do you even live in the district? The makeup of WMATA is 98% African American. Ever been to DCRA? What’s the racial makeup of the police? It’s like 65% minority. I don’t believe you’re from DC at all. Mayor Barry also staffed the majority of the government with minority staff under his tenure…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

internalized misogyny and internalized racism, for starters.

Subjective assessment. Got anything that can be quantified? Or are you just going on feels?

[Anonymous]

You got anything that can be quantified on how racist I am as mostly but not fully YT? Or how gentrifier?

Got a quant analysis on how rapey Dep Mayor has to be to get fired?

[Anonymous]

What is the new information that is horrible for the Mayor? Did he diddle her too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the new information that is horrible for the Mayor? Did he diddle her too?

The FBI investigation into the dealings of Falcicchio and his staff with DC developers doesn't bode particularly well for the mayor. He was her "Johnny Business."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

Yeah, that perspective is kind of the problem… it must be nice to have such a privileged vantage point from which you can so blithely dismiss people’s genuine concerns about how they are treated.
Why don’t you go cry to your boss about it and get someone else in trouble instead of actually fixing anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for DC and none of this is surprising. The mayor has always surrounded herself with pwerful men who advise abd control her. She has only ever cared about messaging, photo ops etc. Why was Fachichio both her Chief of Staff AND the Deputy Mayor? Who has two jobs like that. He was more powerful than the mayor honestly. She is surrounded by ass kissers and she just shuffles the same 10 people around in key leadership positions. Its all about rewarding loyalty, not competency. And they just made all the DC govt employees sign some kind of sexual harassment form acknoewledging the new policies.

I also work for the District and am in complete agreement. The environment is toxic to minorities and women, both of whom are treated like second class citizens. Have a complaint about your boss? Don’t go to DCHR! They will cover for them and make you disappear. And don’t say anything to anyone because that would embarrass your poor, racist, sexist boss.
What happened to the women who were brave enough to come forward is the NORM.

How this can be, PP? When I worked for DCPS, central office was mostly women minorities, a few male minorities, and a sprinkle of whites and Asians. I am not disbelieving your situation, just puzzled how the overall district government could be toxic to minorities and women.

Yeah, agree. Do you even live in the district? The makeup of WMATA is 98% African American. Ever been to DCRA? What’s the racial makeup of the police? It’s like 65% minority. I don’t believe you’re from DC at all. Mayor Barry also staffed the majority of the government with minority staff under his tenure…

Are you stupid? Do you not know how racism works?