A survey of 35,000 career State Department employees commissioned by Rex Tillerson paints a picture of a rudderless organization.
America’s diplomats are struggling to figure out what mission the Trump administration expects them to carry out, and they see the importance of their jobs waning as President Donald Trump seeks drastic cuts to the budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development. [...]
In addition to grave unease about the future, many of the 35,000 employees who responded to the survey complained about management culture, working conditions, uncertain performance goals and technological shortcomings that pre-date the Trump administration.
“No one we interviewed said that the working environment at USAID or DOS enabled them to be successful;” the report’s authors said, using an acronym for the Department of State.
The good news is that after Team Trump gets through with them there will be thousands fewer unhappy employees because, well, there will be thousands fewer employees. That’s also the bad news.
Well, Rex was hired as a turnaround artist. Turn it around, Rex.