May 12, 2008 09:40 pm
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Thank you, fellow taxpayers, for your generosity.
After 40 years of the difficult task of choosing my own work clothing, you have provided me with a free uniform.
In these difficult times you have not only provided this adequately paid federal employee with free clothing, you, at the same time, have been able to share the affluence of the wealthy American taxpayers with the Third World countries of Honduras, Indonesia, Columbia and Vietnam. Now those of us who work in locked and remote offices can easily identify each other.
All these years, I thought the public we serve were of average intelligence, or above, and could discern the person sitting behind the desk with the name badge was the employee. Management must not have shared this belief. The badge surely is the most significant clue as there is nothing uniform about the uniform except the mandate that we wear them and the expectation of being sent home for failure to do so.
There are multiple selections of pants, skirts and shirts in addition to a blazer and scarf. You have far exceeded expectations in providing me with 12 items of unwanted, unattractive, free clothing. Not totally free, as I also am a taxpayer.
Could we taxpayers go a step further and provide shoes and undergarments?
These might be located in China or Mexico.
How about a dry cleaning allowance for the blazer? McDonald’s employees, eat your heart out. Your uniform now has competition.
A complete selection of sizes was not made available for fitting. Some uniforms when received did not fit, were returned and re-ordered. I have since been reported by one supervisor and have been spoken to by the chief of the service for not wearing the uniform I do not yet have.
This overwhelming problem may require the hiring of additional supervisors to assure compliance.
How reassuring that the needs of the veterans, the heroes of this great nation, have all been fully met, leaving funds available for such frivolity at taxpayer expense.
Initially, we were not asked our opinions, although many freely expressed them. Now we have been asked if we think the supervisors should wear uniforms.
Of course! Don’t wardens usually wear uniforms.
Beth Pevia, business office, Jack C. Montgomery Medical Center
Muskogee
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