Jed sez: >> ...I offer the following precautionary tale, recently >> received from an old friend, a (retired) government >> employee.
> This does not sound like a joke from a government employee > to me. The butt of the joke does not resemble any federal or > state employee or official I have ever met, and I have met > many, since I grew up in Washington DC and my parents were > federal employees. Plus I know several at the NRL, the CDC > and the FAA. Being a little nitpicky here I should mention that the joke came from a recently retired state government employee, an old friend of mine who completed a 30+ year career at various state agencies doing computer database work. His exact words when he posted the joke on one of our private mailing lists was: "The following expresses all too well the attitude that a lot of people have toward the government. As a career bureaucrat, I find the stereotype regrettable ... but still pretty damn funny." I'm a state government employee myself having around 28 years under my belt. It's been my experience that many of my colleagues are just as amused by these obviously slanted prejudiced jokes as those in the private sector. We all pay taxes. ... >> "You're a Congressman for the US Government", says the >> cowboy. >> >> "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you >> guess that?" > Congressmen never wear fancy clothes or drive foreign cars. > If they did, they would not be re-elected. The ones I have > encountered are not particularly skilled at technology. > > This joke describes a dot-com millionaire type, not > government employee. > > - Jed Close enough for dot-com work? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
