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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I wouldn't go so far as to be ashamed to be at the same school, but yeah.

The State Dept. has to staff the embassy, apparently, and it's not like they haven't asked for volunteers. I guess it depends on loyalty to an employer in the difficult position of having to staff wildly unpopular jobs, compounded by the fact that your employer doesn't have the option to just move out of that business.

I would not have a lot of loyalty to the State Dept. under the W. Admin, possibly. But I wouldn't bitch publicly and act like they had no right to tell me that my job is going to be X. I would either do it or quit. And bitch endlessly, of course, but it wouldn't be about how my employer is morally WRONG to do it -- WTF is the State Dept. supposed to do? Leave the embassy massively understaffed? How would your friend feel if he had volunteered to go there, and was stuck there, and then everyone else refused to go even when told to, and the State Dept. said "OK, just cope with being really understaffed -- we can't make people go there, and no one else volunteered. So, well, sucks to be you."

(1) It's about the largest embassy in the world. So "understaffed" is an odd way to put it.

(2) They could offer people more money to go. That's how it works with, e.g., the Blackwater people guarding the diplomats.