Katherine Jones commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
While I served in the FS with USAID, I believe the situation with HR there is much the same as at State, so I think this observation is relevant. In the year before retiring in 2001, I took a...
View ArticleJM commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
Good points all. I'd point out the general tendency of the Seniors/Washingtonians -- HR or not -- to protect and promote their own interests, forgetting about the vast majority of us in the ranks. Two...
View ArticlePhilip DuBois commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
I agree with your article. I worked in HR/CDA from 2006 - 2007 and was ostracized by other colleagues for trying to make changes. I was the officer who drafted the no extension policy in non-hardship...
View ArticleJoseph Sharp commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
I could not agree more... from the 'sweep it under the carpet' IG shop to HR near-criminal immunity to accountability. As Phil well knows, when you are in the field, everyone sees everything you do and...
View ArticleDL commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
Thank you for the article. It comforts me to know there are outsiders who sympathize, if not empathize. I have seen talented and competent folks with great work ethics leave the Dept after just a few...
View Articlec commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
More please!!! I am in the FS and most of what you write is new to me. Also, can you get fresh links to the past articles you list? The current ones fail to load for me.
View ArticlePatricia Kushlis commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
C. Appreciate your reading and also letting me know that the links did not work. My apologies - a couple were my mistake - but I fail to understand why the other three failed to load. Anyway, I've...
View ArticlePatricia Kushlis commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom: Buyer Beware'
DL: Although I was never a State FSO (I was an FSO with USIA for 27 plus years), I knew the State system quite well. I saw excellent officers hurt while others - some less talented - moved ahead. Some...
View Articlewriteto_jenviau@hotmail.com commented on 'A System in Need of a Large Broom:...
Wow... How did you find this all out? After years of working at State I'm still trying to make sense of it all. Both the postings and the comments have confirmed some of my own experiences with HR -...
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