Most people don't realize the amount of letter writing and testing that one endures just to be hired for 8 months and then because of unrelenting bureaucratic BS be terminated, knowing that what you were trying to accomplish in the first place was right. I know this frustration as well as most people. Following are a series of just a few of the correspondence I saved over the later part of 1970's and early 1980's along with my 96% rating in 1984 on the Civil Service test. Along with my degree I was hoping for a better job.  Although I wrote to President Carter many times he never responded.  The best I could do was a response from his State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter, not relations I assume.

Some may wonder why a few of the grievances I have filed aren't carried through. Industrial accidents may occur because of one employee's impairment and I have filed several complaints because of impairment "on the job" by certain employees. I filed a grievances because of one employee's "drinking and doping" on the job because I felt there were machinery that employee operated that may have harmed me, himself or someone else. Now, this is on a job. While with the U.S. State Department, and other government jobs, super especially TVA, there has been drinking on the job but especially the job I had while with the Newington, Virginia overseas pouch facility, Department of State. I was not part of that drinking and made it known to those I worked with that I didn't want to be. Sure I had a beer or two when I got home after work, but not there with them. There were days in the summer there when beer was brought in and consumed on the loading dock and also there were firearms brought in and fired during the consumption of beer. The fact that I was a minority in my particular area may have had one reason for my not filing my grievance through proper channels, I really don't know. My concern was my health from the "rat feces" that lay on the table during lunch breaks. I was also concerned that large new machines installed by the Office of Security were not being used to check suspicious packages. That is all a mute point at this point and if I had it to do over again maybe I would have been more prolific in my charges, who knows.