City employees need to be easier to get a hold of

It’s worse for federal employees

Hi, welcome to Earth. Are you new here?

It’s nearly impossible to fire these people once they’re hired by the Government

Who are you trying to contact, in what city, in a city agency, on a Friday after lunch?

Which city?

If it's Baton Rouge or New Orleans, you'd be lucky to find one who can read and write.

Let me clue you in.

#1, they see your calls, they just ignore you.
If you want to actually get your calls answered you have to know the right people to call, and be someone they recognize. Sure, it’s bullshite, but I don’t make the rules.

Working with city workers you’ll learn that if you aren’t at the very least cordial, you ain’t getting shite done.

If you do luck out and get someone, especially if they are a woman, blow smoke up their arse. Compliment them, ask them how their day is, just be charming as frick.

You don’t have to like the gatekeepers, but you have to realize that they are the gatekeepers and hold the keys to the next level. I can’t tell you how much red tape I have cut through by just making the person on the other end of the line feel good. This applies to women.

Now men, which you’ll more likely encounter in the field, you go in like you are talking football with dudes at the bar. Crack jokes, ease tension, nothing is ever gonna be their fault, it’s the higher ups. Understand that and you’ll get the right numbers and off the record shite to actually accomplish stuff.


Accept the world as it is, not as how you think it should be, because you aren’t changing shite today anyway.

Every government employee should be required to wear a body camera. The video should be instantly uploaded to a publicly accessible server that can be accessed at any time.

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It’s worse for federal employees

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I'm reading this as I'm leaving at least the 5th voice mail for someone at the US Army Corps of Engineers

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if my boss got a call that I was returning emails or calls I don't think I would be working there anymore.

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I thought that is how the government works