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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (13595)	5/16/2001 7:21:13 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

as long as they don't start sprinkling holy water ,burning incense , kneeling on prayer-mats and bowing 3 times in the direction of the oval office... I wonder if Ashcroft doesn't know that that sort of activity is "just not done" in Executive Branch offices or whether he intentionally wants to change office climate. More often than now, new agency heads make rookie mistakes because they expect to run their new domains just like they ran their corporate or other offices. They go ahead without consulting with or trusting those of their minions who are paid to advise them on such things. So I'll give Ashcroft the benefit of the doubt for now. What is most interesting to me, though, is that responsibility for guidance for Feds on such matters as displays of religiosity and the appropriate non-business use of government facilities is disseminated by the Justice Department and Ashcroft's practices, from what was reported, may not be consistent with them. Once upon a time, I had occasion be be assigned what was framed as a "management study" of just such an activity. Non-participants referred to the group as "the cult." It's hard to say how much the cult caused the management problems at the location, but it definitely was one of the more colorful and interesting aspects. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Justice. But I doubt this is of much interest to those who have not lived in the arcane world of Federal personnel practices. Karen