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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have several FSOs in our neighborhood and my spouse used to work at State in a support capacity. Yes, they are full of themselves. To be fair, the ones I know are actually smart and educated, but also rude and just not interested in talking about anything besides their jobs. They all hang out together, rent homes from one another, etc -- very insular -- and if you get two in a room they only talk about who else in State they both mutually know.[/quote]

I'm in the Foreign Service and take offense at many of the characterizations being levied here (I don't think I'm full of myself and have never rented to or from a fellow DOS employee)- but the bit about getting two in a room and it becoming a "who you know" contest is too funny- and true![/quote]

[b]Taking offense is a good indicator that you're full of yourself.[/b] If you took a look around at the countries we pay to send you to instead of around the room to see who you know, you'd do a better job at what we're paying you to do. Focus. On. The. Job. Signed, your boss, a liberal internationalist taxpayer but tired of paying for out of touch snobs to trot all over the world living out an imaginary lifestyle [/quote]

There is a lot of truth here.  NP here.  In the close in DC suburbs, the older FSO's are married to midwestern women who wanted to get out of the mid west, and marrying was the only way to do it, in their world.  The women live and die (literally) by what their husband did, with not much to speak of themselves, except maybe volunteering and bridge games in their later years. Not the warmest bunch, and not much to talk about besides their travels, which would not have been possible without their husbands, sadly.  Which would be fine, if they ever truly smiled in their lifetimes. [/quote]

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