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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

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Why green?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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