Boughs of Holly
A trio from Island Dweller, who now posts here more frequently than our own Confucius,* now concludes:
Your immenseness:
It would seem we have our lower-level supervisor who, according to the media, was directly responsible for providing guidance to anti-tea party IRS employees who were harassing those individuals and trying to make life miserable for them. I have enclosed a couple of photographs (Ein und Zwei) of this individual for your review.
This young lady seems just out of college, although that’s not the case. I can remember my own days in the service of the Crown when supervision generally had grey hair, white hair, or no hair. They did, however, have a fair amount of field experience and were sometimes capable of making sound judgments. It’s looking like the IRS is afflicted with the same problem my old agency had, and still has – older personnel are too smart to apply for supervisory positions, knowing the political bullying and toadying that nowadays goes along with such a position.
In my own case, I turned down consideration for supervision twice. The source material states this young lady is an Obama donor who sat in, face-to-face, on IRS IG employee interviews – thus guaranteeing whoever spoke the truth would receive instantaneous punishment upon completion of the interview. This procedure is unheard-of, and is certainly unethical (there’s that “ethics” topic again!) if not downright illegal. She is reportedly an attorney, no less! No doubt this was done at the behest of her supervisor, not in the interests of fairness and the obtaining of the truth. Looks like they have their own IG buffaloed. If we’re going to bring the IRS to heel, now is the time to do it.
Island Dweller
*For those who came in late, Confucius is the Gormogons’ Œcumenical Volgi.
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.