SNAFU: A Hysterical Memoir About Why the Government Doesn't Work
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615610293 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"SNAFU" according to beannie. I received SNAFU at SNAFU beannie I received SNAFU at 4 pm today and I have finished by 9 pm. Now, this was with my family insisting that I make them dinner and numerous text messages and a phone call from my friend, to find out if she was in it. I LOVED IT. It is so funny, you have a way with words. I recognized numerous people. It was an enjoyable read and I think I need . pm today and I have finished by 9 pm. Now, this was with my family insisting that I make them dinner and numerous text messages and a phone call from my friend, to find out if she was in it. I LOVED IT. It is so funny, you have a way with words. I recognized numerous people. It was an enjoyable read and I think I need . SNAFU is misleading I got the feeling that the writer was building her own ego. I know many of her statements to to be true as I worked with Ellen as an Army logistician. Government workers get a bad rap as it is, but these same actions happen in private industry. To say the events and people she points out is the reason the government doesn't work degrades ot. K. Young said Boring. The writer clearly forgot the need to grab the reader from the start. The cover said hilarious, but once the introduction failed to get me to even smile, I had my doubts. I gave up after a few paragraphs into the story and will be deleting it from my Kindle.
Nevertheless, for the sake of entertaining material, she focuses on those individuals who hardly worked instead of working hard. Roberge, now retired after nearly three decades as a civil servant, makes it clear that the majority of her colleagues did not correspond to this stereotype. During one of their final conversations before her mother's death, as they watch foolish people feeding the alligators, her mother remarks: "No, they shouldn't feed them, but it's not the alligators sic fault; they don't know they're monsters." . From Kirkus Reviews A wry insider's view of the stagnant conditions plaguing governmental offices. The image of government workers as lazy, ineffective and corrupt is a common one in popular culture. Addressing sexism
. Ellen Roberge lives in Orlando, FL with her husband and crazy dog. The first best decision she made was to go to work for the federal Government and the second was to retire early from the federal Government
It will most certainly appeal to the 14.6 million currently employed Federal civil service employees, as well as all retirees (they may not like what I've written, but they'll be hard pressed to dispute it).. Enjoy the hysterically amusing, some astonishing, and irreverent but true stories of the Federal Government as I lived it for 28 years.There is something here for everyone who's ever had to deal with the Government