Screwgie

A bit of ridiculous passive aggressiveness at work today. I've been here in my temp housing for almost a month and I like it here. It's got a mix of good and bad, but I definitely want to stay. Getting approval to stay hasn't been very easy. There have been some hoops to jump through and a bureaucracy to prod, but I had no idea that, even when prodded, the bureaucracy has ways of fighting back. I witnessed the bureaucracy complying with my request but managing to completely undermine the end goal. I had asked for a waiver to stay in my apartment, but Washington needs to approve. Getting someone to send the cable seemed like a struggle, but I was glad when I found that it went out; that is, until I read it. The "good justification" they were going to give to convince Washington to approve the waiver was: "he likes the apartment very much." That's them trying to give me the kiss of death -- portray an officer as being a spoiled brat and their like-minded bureaucrat in DC will give the ix-nay on the waiver. It didn't help also that this particular section reminded Washington that Washington had decided to ditch this particular apartment anyway.

Really, organizations can be quite passive-aggressive, too.