A Change After 13 Years

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So I've moved on after 13 years.  I'm still in the same, very large, organization, but I manage IT again.  This time it's a little scary, as the stuff I now manage is very sensitive and politically-charged, and I've got the disadvantage of not knowing the place and people I now manage.  But it was a necessary move.  I was sitting in a cube with no assignment and no respect for my management.  My ex-peers are still in that situation and they are miserable.  We still communicate.

 This is the problem with state government.  Appointees come in like super-heroes, but they don't know anything.  They sort-of manage for 4 years, then they're all terminated, replaced by new appointees that the new governor appointed, and they don't usually know anything, either.  Meanwhile, the people who hold the place together are forgotten and dismissed, and talked about by the governor in the press as if they are burdens on the state.  You get shit on by politicians, shit on by his hand-picked management, you haven't had a decent raise in 20 years, your pension is constantly under fire, the public resents you because you even have a pension, government is shrinking so you're now doing twice the work you used to do... and then they wonder why employee morale is low and why the work product could be better.

 How ignorant could they possibly be?  No wonder so many people have given up on government.

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