From: Shaffer, Paul D

Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 8:49 AM

To: Corporate Lackey; Corporate Whore

Cc: Underling

Subject: 11:00

In preparation for this meeting, let me explain what prompted me to show you what I wrote in my blog last Sunday.  BTW, I write about a lot of things, and work constitutes by far one of the fewest number of posts in the numerous topic categories appearing there.  But I take the time to write about things that are important to me – whatever they may be.

After having been involved directly or indirectly with the AF, Govt./DoD security and in fact this program for more than thirty years, and mulling it over during the long weekend, It occurred to me this episode pretty much exemplified what I have now come to view as a general state of affairs in that realm, from my perspective.  This comes from not only the past month’s experience, but from many interactions with individuals from every corner of the program on both sides of the customer/contractor fence for more than a year.

For literally weeks on end, I was repeatedly given the run-around, practically lied to, and ultimately falsely accused of some non-specific wrongdoing which was liable to get me banned from the base.  Through all that, nobody cared – not one person on either the customer or the contractor side made the slightest effort to solve the problem.  I was just an annoyance to be gotten rid of, one way or the other.  Apathy is rampant and morale is low.  I’ve been in some pretty nasty government-sponsored hellholes all over the world and never saw it this bad before.

I suppose things changed gradually over a long period of time.  Or maybe I’m delusional.  But either way, the epiphany came for me last Sunday.  That’s not the way I remember things, or the way I expect to be treated under any circumstances by anybody, now or ever.

So at the end of my career, seeing what basically represents my life’s work from the standpoint of people’s attitudes working in it now, it’s really just sad. That’s all.  I’m not frustrated, just sad.

v/r

Paul D. Shaffer