Dear Bureaucrat, My job wants me to lie

Requiring you to sign the form lets your agency’s officials claim they are assuring only essential items are bought. And whenever you comply, it shows your agency’s officials that they can depend on employees’ willingness to make false certifications, to cover up for official procedures that don’t work. Dear Bureaucrat is a new feature on Federal Times, providing the federal workforce with the opportunity to submit questions about their careers to David S. Reed, founder of the Center for Public Administrators, a 501(c)(3) civil society organization that builds communities of practice in the public sector.

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