The Bureaucrats Who Deserve Lumps Of Coal For Christmas – OpEd |
There are many stories about bureaucrats behaving badly within the U.S. government. But did you know some of the worst of the worst all worked for a single federal agency?
The Daily Wire‘s Luke Rosiak’s investigative report into the abuses tolerated at a small federal agency in which bureaucrats exploited a lack of oversight to their extreme personal benefit is both eye-opening and extremely frustrating. Here’s an excerpt introducing what was allowed to pass as business-as-usual at the agency during the last ten years:
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge. FMCS recorded its director as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers, simply for showing up to the office….
FMCS seemed, quite clearly, to exist for the benefit of those on its payroll, and not much else. One employee told me: “Let me give you the honest truth: A lot of FMCS employees don’t do a hell of a lot, including myself. Personally, the reason that I’ve stayed is that I just don’t feel like working that hard, plus the location on K Street is great, plus we all have these oversized offices with windows, plus management doesn’t seem to care if we stay out at lunch a long time. Can you blame me?”
As a taxpayer, I want accountability for how........