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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I interned at the EPA in the 90s (long time ago I know).  Almost all of the support staff was black.  As a general rule, they did nothing all day. If you asked them to fax or fed ex something, they looked like you like you had two heads.  Now, that said, the lawyers worked their asses off (and were very diverse, all races and religions), so this is not a racial thing but an employment/union thing.  It was pathetic.[/quote]

So, the lawyers sent their own faxes and Fed Ex shipments? [/quote]

yep.  and the admin talked on the phone with their friends all day.[/quote]

You're either lying or exaggerating. [/quote]

You're clueless.

Though I disagree in part w/ the pp quoted and the racial stereotyping (some admins were worthless (black, Hispanic, white, etc.), others were good (black, Hispanic, white, etc.)), I was a manager at EPA for 26 yrs (retired '13) and I and my staff all sent our own faxes regularly and did our FedEx shipments when needed (admins usually handled that).  Your disbelief merely reveals your clueless ignorance.  People were there to get the job done and unlike a lot of others (BigLaw etc.) it was not "beneath" me as a Div. Dir. or Associate Office Dir. to send a fax if that's what needed to be done.

Others with poles up their butt (you perhaps?) may not believe that people can be willing to do that if that's what the job takes, but it's a fact whether you like or believe it or not (I and others were often at the office after admins had left and someone had to send those faxes or get those briefs out).[/quote]

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