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2020-03-06 Government
BLM Gummit Workers: Leave the Beltway? No, We'll Quit First.
[The Hill] The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has lost more than half of its Washington-based employees who were slated to move out West as the agency pushes ahead with a controversial plan to relocate staff.

New internal numbers from the Interior Department obtained by The Hill show 69 employees have left the agency rather than accept the new assignment. Another 18 left after the plans were announced but before they could be reassigned.

Those 87 employees outnumber the 80 who have agreed to the move.

The figures are at odds with the ones referenced in December by acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley, who said in an email that roughly two-thirds of staffers had agreed to move.

"This is a huge brain drain," said Steve Ellis, who retired from BLM’s top career-level post in 2016. "There is a lot of really solid expertise walking out the door."

The Interior Department, which oversees BLM, did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The BLM move would uproot nearly all of the agency’s dwindling Washington staff out West, leaving just 61 of 10,000 employees in the nation’s capital.

Under the relocation plan, roughly 25 employees would work at BLM’s new headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo., while another 150 or so would be placed in the agency’s existing offices out West.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-06 03:04|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Outstanding. This is what draining the swamp looks like.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2020-03-06 03:49||   2020-03-06 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Those that left most likely took other positions within the Federal Government. But it's a start.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2020-03-06 07:31||   2020-03-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Which is good. The numbers in D.C., they still eventually go down.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-06 07:33||   2020-03-06 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It almost sounds as though the remaining BLM employees will have to, you know, actually...work. Maybe even all day, for the entire week.
Posted by Cesare 2020-03-06 07:51||   2020-03-06 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 ^What I like about you (Americans), you're such optimistic People - we (Jews) tend to doom & gloom.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-06 08:07||   2020-03-06 08:07|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Well g(r)om, you must admit, there is some historical precedence for your.... 'doom & gloom.'
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-06 08:10||   2020-03-06 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Yea, well "Ain brera" (what can't be cured must be endured).
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-06 08:22||   2020-03-06 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 No, We'll Quit First.

In software-speak - That's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-03-06 09:15||   2020-03-06 09:15|| Front Page Top

#9 "This is a huge brain drain,"

It might be the first time I ever saw that word being used to describe Federal bureaucrats.

That said, the rest of you - GTFO!
Posted by Raj 2020-03-06 09:17||   2020-03-06 09:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Keep the word drain and delete the word brain
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-06 10:21||   2020-03-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#11 What #10 A.P. said! :-D
Posted by Barbara 2020-03-06 10:31||   2020-03-06 10:31|| Front Page Top

#12 It seems counterintuitive to describe a brain drain of expertise in land management when the brains won’t go where the land is to manage. How do you stay expert inside the beltway?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-03-06 11:55||   2020-03-06 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 They're very expert in telling the Western plebs how to live. Now they get to be them. Bwahahaha! How terrible!
Posted by Nero 2020-03-06 12:03||   2020-03-06 12:03|| Front Page Top

#14 We call that culling the herd. With good reason.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-06 12:18||   2020-03-06 12:18|| Front Page Top

#15 I live in the state where the BLM controls the most territory (Nevada), and in a location where they own 99% of the land. I've interacted with them a lot: sometimes positively, sometimes negatively. And a few of them willingly live among us... but most don't, and won't. Even the friendly ones will tell you to your face they have little respect for the intelligence of Nevadans or their ability to manage their own affairs.

Add to that having to send your kids to the same schools as our kids, shop at the same stores as us, and generally be around us all the time... well, they don't want that kind of accountability.

Still, I salute the 80 who don't have that problem. It's a good sign.
Posted by Secret Master 2020-03-06 15:54||   2020-03-06 15:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Keep those Dimacrats out of my state. They probably on came for marryjane.
Posted by Phomble Jeager4592 2020-03-06 16:29||   2020-03-06 16:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Good fucking riddance.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-06 20:14||   2020-03-06 20:14|| Front Page Top

#18 Door. Ass. Bang!
Posted by SR-71 2020-03-06 21:16||   2020-03-06 21:16|| Front Page Top

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