Friday, November 4, 2022

Contract bureaucrats

My glasses from VA were delivered within a week of my last visit to the eye clinic. Unfortunately, the lenses were not ground. Today I got an email for rating service and satisfaction. Pardon my laughter. Included in the email was this statement: 

“PDS Consultants Inc is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers as well a Drug Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender or sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Why do those people believe I really GAF about their stated employment practices? Do those people believe recipients of their missives so stupid as to think a firm employed by an agency of the U.S. government would be anything other than as stated? Another bureaucratic requirement that takes time and your/my tax money.

The form to fill out gave me two locations to choose as to where I got my glasses, Fort Walton or Baltimore. Uh, neither. But when I tried to send the form, the system refused to accept my venture because I had  not chosen one of the incorrect locations.

3 comments:

  1. "Why do those people believe I really GAF about their stated employment practices"
    Virtue signaling.
    As El Rushbo always said, "Symbolism over substance"

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  2. FF: I should know better than to be surprised at anything these days.

    MW: Somebody once said, "You can't eat symbolism," but Democrats believe words have calories.

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