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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DGS, not DCPS, deals with facilities repair and maintenance.  [/quote]

Tell me you work for DC government without telling me...

The problem with this response is that it absolves DCPS from responsibility. As if DCPS is the only entity on Earth that depends on other verticals for their own success. Many of us have jobs where our success is dependent on other divisions and groups to perform. Those groups may not report up to us or our managers. But if our success is dependent on them then we need to find ways to manage across and ensure those groups perform. We can try being nice, being mean, escalating to our manager or VP or HR or any number of avenues. I can tell you for damn sure that I'd be unemployed if I sat back and allowed a dependency to affect my performance and merely shrugged my shoulders and pointed a finger when called on the carpet.

These types of failures need to be on the Chancellor's desk (are they?). He needs to be on the phone and emails with his DGS counterpart demanding they perform and remediate (is he?). He needs to be in Bowser meetings pounding the table (is he?). He needs to surface these things at Council hearings (he isn't). He needs to be speaking to reporters on background (is he?). He needs to hold press conferences and conduct walk throughs with media (is he?).

Enough excuses. [/quote]

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