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"Career civil servants be like" (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2020
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Wonder how bad off we'd be without an army of career civil servants holding on throughout.
Hermit-The-Prog
Nov 2020
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Karadeniz
(22,470 posts)1. True! Cute!
rsdsharp
(9,137 posts)2. Dobbie is a free elf!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)3. Wonder how bad off we'd be without an army of career civil servants holding on throughout.
MissB
(15,803 posts)4. Pretty bad
I dont work for the feds but I interact with a fed agency frequently enough. So many of their best quit or retired during the tRump years. Those that held on are surely sighing with relief tonight.
I started to hear the horror stories two years ago.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)5. I have no doubt that many resisted efforts to destroy and undermine.
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)6. I would say it would be more like
I was able to get out (retire) a couple weeks after he was inaugurated and I think it was before the mugshot portrait was installed in the lobby of my building. He was the 6th President that I had worked under and I expect he'll be universally considered the worst.