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[quote=Anonymous]I am a new government lawyer.  I came from a big law firm and am used to having to make demonstrable progress on tasks quickly. I am working on a team at my new job, and we have so much to get done. Yet nobody takes any initiative to accomplish anything, even when our supervisor asks us directly to do something.  My supervisor told me directly that he wants to take advantage of the fact that I'm used to a faster pace and for me to keep pushing to get things done, but when I do that, it clearly upsets the others who have been on the team longer. There is so much passive aggression and shooting down everything I try to accomplish. The tasks are such that I cant just ignore the others and forge ahead, so it seems my choices are to work at the others' glacial pace and make my boss unhappy or try to do what my boss asked me to do and be thwarted at every turn by my coworkers. I have been a lawyer for nearly ten years and have never encountered a situation like this. Anybody have any advice?  I'm at the end of my rope. [/quote]

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