Sean Brune, Steven Evangelista, Florence Felix-Lawson, Karen Glenn, Jay Ortis and Chad Poist, who are career Social Security federal employees, have penned an op ed for the Baltimore Sun touting Frank Busignano’s term as Social Security Commissioner. The piece is quite a fluff job. I wonder who actually wrote it and how these execs came to sign on to it. It’s really quite an extraordinary politization of career employees. I don’t think any of these signatories have a future in a Democratic Administration.
A hundred pieces like this cannot change the circumstances on the ground. A day of reckoning approaches.
Complete nonesense Frank!
ReplyDeleteDecisions are going out faster in OHO, but the quality has never been worse in my experience, and the whole rig is a house of cards ready to collapse at any moment. Even a hundred more retirements would probably push it over the brink. Not to mention the future consequences that will someday come back to roost.
ReplyDeleteMeets the criteria of a “fluff piece”
ReplyDeleteWho are these individuals?
A "fluff piece" is a lighthearted, entertaining news story, article, or broadcast segment lacking significant hard news value, often intended to fill time, improve ratings, or provide a feel-good story.
Politicization? What’s O’Malley say about this given he may be the COSS again?
ReplyDeleteAll of those individuals need their jobs and depend on the income. Several are taking care of family members in need. Two have recently been divorced and have young children. Others have lived beyond their means for years, and it has caught up to them. Hold a gun to a person's head, demand strict obedience, and this is what you get.
ReplyDeleteMany individuals have left government due to the politicization of the agency. What makes these SSA employees so special? Don’t sign on to an article that has no merit. Is that too much to ask?
DeleteThey are the last remaining career SES executives at the top of the pyramid. Less then 75 SES remain nationally. If they leave, the whole system collapses. Treasury can keep running the same payment tape forever. It's just the end of the line for everyone else.
DeleteI'm sorry but SESers have not been our friends. They have not taken a stand when needed, stand up for the wrong things, and have steered the ship into the iceberg.
Delete@4:46, perhaps the system should collapse. We as informed individuals on this blog can read between the lines. Ordinary citizens read these puff pieces and continue to support Orange Julius Caesar and his hench(wo)men. At a certain point the truth will come out. Paycheck or no, are you on the side of truth or not? If not, you are not the glue holding an Ageny/Policy/Budget together you are just another liar
DeleteReally disappointed to see the Chief Actuary on this. Staying apolitical is an important part of OACT's forecasts being taken seriously by both sides of the aisle in Congress.
ReplyDeleteKool Aid drinking ****s.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a "puff " piece, rather than a "fluff" piece
ReplyDeleteI am demoralized by leadership's constant refusal to acknowledge any of the legitimate hardships the agency sees on the regular. The communication we are getting goes beyond optimism and into pure cult territory, and the disconnect with reality is staggering.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone out there actually believe this? Sure, they can make some numbers look great, but what does it count for if everything overworked and undertrained employees are touching is wrong? Or even if close to half of it is? Maybe processing time/answer rates look great on paper, but once you scratch the surface even a little bit you can see that it’s smoke and mirrors. You can’t always do more and more with less and less and deliver great, accurate results.
ReplyDeleteAll these people care about is numbers- not accuracy, not the actual people working the cases, and most importantly, not the public who depends on SSA.
It's a FrankB version of what happens with Trump and his sycophants who praise him and call him a genius. Leader MUST be praised and acolytes must sing such praises (or else). It's a pushback to the New Yorker piece online today. It's a sad piece of writing when the people "responsible" for these "advances" write such a public self-serving tribute to their own work in order to praise the "dear leader" to whom they give the credit. Looks like the North Koreans have gotten their "Dear Leader" style manual firmly into agencies now.
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