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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My friend in the Foreign Service who had been told that he might be sent to Iraq instead of his scheduled next posting is now officially out of the running for that duty. He would have quit first, and I don't blame him. Woo hoo!
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My friend's brother who is in the Foreign Service and has volunteered to go back to Iraq several times and is there now and understands that he's working for THE FOREIGN SERVICE and that that sometimes involves, like, risk and shit, isn't dead yet! Woo hoo!
Seriously, wtf? It seems like the possibility of having to go to dangerous places is, like, part of the job. Not that anyone isn't free to quit any job they want at any time, e.g. if they totally rearranged our world and I got assigned to a sub that I find morally abhorrent (and that is in NYC, which I just abhor), I would quit -- but you can't really have the shiny bright "I'm a good person because I'm serving our country in the Foreign Service" coupled with "But other people can go to the bad places."
So, I'm happy your friend doesn't have to find a new job, but he's got no job-related moral high ground with me.
I am hating everything today.
