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[Mar. 3rd, 2005|01:56 pm] |
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I tend to work a lot of Federal law enforcement officers, you know FBI, Secret Service, Homeland Security, DCIS, CIA and a few others you'd never heard of. From the outside, you'd think these would be dynamic, exciting, adventurous people. You know, with the badges, the guns and the sexy deadly cases they work. For the most part they are. The things is, dealing with them you also discover a lackadaisical attitude about work. An attitude not shared by us corporate types. I mean, they're frequently late to meetings, blow off callbacks and generally are never around. The first impression is "oh, they're busy protecting America" or whatever. That is partially true. But once you start hanging around them, you see that they're rather slow in accomplishing anything. I'm talking government slow. And meetings with them? They have no compunction to sitting around for hours on end chitchatting and sipping coffee. Then there's my FBI friend who seems to be perpetually on vacation. I mean she uses every single hour of vacation time she's allotted as soon as it becomes available. This month, she's on a Mediterranean cruise. Don't even get me started on long lazy cop lunches. That's when it hits you: they are just like the DMV. Only they don't make cool movies about the DMV. |
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