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I’ve worked other places where I barely tolerated some of my coworkers (cough, DISH, cough), but I can’t honestly say I absolutely despised the lot of them the way I do at my current job. Granted, I have never worked for a government agency before, so maybe ineptitude and sloth are just business as usual and what’s expected, but the arrogance that some of these people throw while not doing their jobs is just infuriating.

Paranoia runs rampant. I have written before about one of the techs I work with who keeps paper records of everything she does for fear of being reprimanded for not having answers if questions come up regarding any particular task she may have worked on and ironically is—for lack of a better term—a corporate tattletale. I’m convinced it was her running back to our boss that got two contract techs fired last year for the most innocuous reasons.

As if I needed any more proof of her proclivities, the other day she came back from lunch and couldn’t wait to tell me about a homeless woman she saw at the local Circle K who was filling up an empty soda bottle from the soda machine and muching down on taquitos while she did it—and how my coworker then ran to the clerk (who has hip deep in customers at the time) and interrupted everything to tell her about it.

Okay, it is petty theft, but couldn’t you have just walked away without saying anything?

Apparently not.

And then there’s the other guy I work directly with. He’s reasonably friendly, but some days gives me attitude for no reason at all. Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, buddy? His queue isn’t any worse than mine, yet he disappears for hours every. single. day.

Don’t get me started on our Network Security and Networking groups. They have everything so fucking locked down that in many cases we don’t have the rights to effectively do our jobs. I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO TAKE A MACHINE OFF THE DOMAIN IN ORDER TO INSTALL A PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT OUR OWN APPLICATION PEOPLE WROTE!! “Installation of this software is blocked by network policy” or “A referral has been returned by the server.”

It’s just ridiculous.

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