Tsunayoshi's Journal: Certain types of employees

I've learned to hate at least 2 types of employees in the last few weeks.

The security person. Not the technical security person, he is a former sysad/webmaster so is technicially proficient and also willingly helps with tech issues relating to security. I'm referring to the security policy person, whose sole job it seems is to tell us what we CAN'T do because it might violate a particular DOD regulation. For once I want a security person who says "well, that would be against policies x, y amd z, but let's see how we can solve your problem within the regulations or if we can waiver it."

The person who always says why she CAN'T help you out. "Oh, you need to call for that issue" "Sorry, I could fix that but it is 's job so you should tak to her". I seen this particular person spend more time telling people why she can't help them than I have actually seen her doing productive work.

I always used to think that people exaggerated when they talked about how government employees were (I am on a mixed contractor/government contract) but now I see they were not. My last contract we had about 6 different companies working together between primes and subs, and positions were shared out between companies so that no one team of people (planners, techs, administrative) was solely on company. We had a policy there of "one team one fight" and we all worked together with mainly no corporate rivalries.

This current place you are constantly reminded that you are a contractor. GS types get nameplates on their cubes, contractors don't. GS types get preference for compressed work schedules (9 by 40) over contractors. Apparently before I worked here, contractors could not park on the compound, so had to park in a commuter lot off base and take a shuttle in to work from there adding up to 30 minutes on each end of the workday.

I guess I can sum this post up as "I really should have taken my counter-offer and stayed where I was".