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I know you are talking about a bigger proposition at this point. But in this instance as a Gov employee Zimmerman literally: 1. Didn't perform a mandatory per
by will_brown 11y ago
I know you are talking about a bigger proposition at this point. But in this instance as a Gov employee Zimmerman literally:
1. Didn't perform a mandatory permit review for 15 years;
2. Started 15 year old over due review and worked on it for 4 years and just simply stopped without documenting why the review was stop;
3. Thereafter almost immediately took a job with the company who benefited from this incompetence (apparently under the guise Zimmerman rather than being totally incompetent is an expert); and
4. When finally questioned about why the delay, why the lack of documentation...simply answers I was busy fighting forest fires.
In short, You are goddamn right I want "rules" for accountability.
- maxerickson 11y agoYou are making the rather large assumption here that doing this review was actually a good use of his time. I don't see where that has been demonstrated. The article does mention that the USFS has limited resources to direct towards these reviews, so it's pretty possible that ignoring a review he didn't think was a big deal was reasonable.
- will_brown 11y agoI'm not making an assumption (large or small) that the review was a good use of his time...it was his fucking job. You may say I am making a large assumption about that as well, except it is evidenced by the fact he began the review (15 years late) and worked on it for 4 years. I further guess what you are saying is Government employees despite having job responsibilities and duties should have complete and total independent discretion as to what their time is best spent doing...makes sense they are the experts after all.
- maxerickson 11y agoOf course it was part of his job, but I'm not going to take 6 paragraphs from some reporter and assume that I have a crystal clear picture of the entire story.