Fired Fed Claims Co-Workers Spent Days Watching Movies, Attacking ‘White Ladies’

The Daily Caller reports:

A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) worker fired for bringing a stun gun to work and repeatedly discharging it claims everyone else in her office just watches TV all day, so she doesn’t understand why she’s being singled out for rare discipline.

The office in question is the “Non-VA Purchased Care Support Office,” which processes payments to private doctors providing care to veterans. Many VA employees opposed the program because they view it as threatening their union jobs. So many payments mysteriously never made it to the doctors that were owed that many of them began refusing to accept VA patients.

The woman also paints the VA back office as a racially-charged culture of elderly black women that is distanced and different from that of the returning warriors they serve.

The “sure, I was a bad employee, but so was everyone else around me, and VA management did nothing about them” tactic in countering management discipline is a recurring theme among poorly performing VA employees.

The future of single payer health care looks like.