GSA employees travel to Hawaii five-days for a one-hour ribbon cutting

GSA employees travel to Hawaii five-days for a one-hour ribbon cutting
By Chad Pergram
Published April 11, 2012 | FoxNews.com


Your Tax dollars at work again !!

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Wednesday that five employees associated with the recently scandal-plagued Government Services Administration went to Hawaii for up to a week in 2011 to attend an hour-long ribbon cutting on space leased by the federal government for the FBI.

Details of the incident surfaced in a transcript of an interview between the GSA Inspector General’s Office and a GSA employee.

The employee indicated to the IG investigator that trip was not isolated and that there was another, longer junket scheduled for Hawaii this fall.

How about just One ??

Or even None

All they had to do was cut a ribbon ??

How 'bout using somebody from a local office ??

The corruption is getting exposed slowly but surely

Unemployment is too high !!

Put that money BACK into the Treasury !!

Whoever can guess what they did for the rest of the week wins a Digital cookie...

now thats winning the junket lottery

reply to post by TedHodgson

It's a very technical term unfamiliar to most laymen. Acclimatise. It takes much time but little effort, it often involves one just being present.
ETA I know it sounds like politics from my description but it isn't.

reply to post by LightSpeedDriver


Hu-Rah.

reply to post by TedHodgson

I have 2 questions. Are those real chocolate chips and is that cookie for me?
*flutters eyelids in a flattering manner*

reply to post by LightSpeedDriver


They most certainly are real Digital chocolate chips! And it certainly is

Now I really want my money back !!

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So they are receiving a Bonus out of your Tax money for spending your tax money on an event attended by people whose wages are paid by your tax money? It doesn't get any worse than that really

Reminds me of the people who were hitting the bar while the Titanic was sinking.
Get everything you can while you still can.
These people should pay restitution to the taxpayers for their arrogance.
I just hope they aren't going to get their full retirement after being fired for this.
Are they union by any chance?

Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Reminds me of the people who were hitting the bar while the Titanic was sinking.
Get everything you can while you still can.
These people should pay restitution to the taxpayers for their arrogance.
I just hope they aren't going to get their full retirement after being fired for this.
Are they union by any chance?

The GSA employees have a union.

The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) is an American labor union which represents about 100,000 public employees in the federal government.

NFFE has about 200 local unions, most of them agency-wide bargaining units. Its members work primarily in the Department of Defense, the Forest Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the General Services Administration, the National Park Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Passport Services division of the Bureau of Consular Affairs (Department of State).
National Federation of Federal Employees

Most likely, supervisors, managers, etc. are not in the union.

Sadly I have two friends who work for the government and they brag about stuff like this all the time. They can take up to three months a year off without loosing a single days pay also. Neither has a degree and both earn over $120,000 a year.

Both have easy jobs. In fact one picks up barrels on one side of a warehouse with a overhead crane and sets the barrel down on the other side. She is the Shop Steward for the Union and gets an annual trip on the taxpayers to a different location every year. She earns now over $140,000 plus another $40,000 in perks.

....and they wonder why were pissed

So how many government employees does it take to cut a ribbon? It takes at least five and it takes them a week. I didnt even get an invitation or a t-shirt.