[Brian23026]

Prior to coming back to journalism, I worked in management in a government agency and found most of those stereotypes to contain kernels of truth. Government work generally pays less than its private-sector counterparts. This doesn’t necessarily make employees lazy, but instead attracts people not motivated by money. This leaves personal satisfaction or love of society their sole motivation. After a short time of working for the public as ‘servants,’ they lose that motivation. The public is rude, mean and generally uninformed about the role of government. Once the person has no motivation to ‘serve’ the ungrateful public, and they’re safe in their job by seniority, they fit those stereotypes.

The flip side to this phenomenon is that, in my opinion, it’s the lazy, dumb and/or rude public that makes these people respond in that manner. Imagine a time when you went to a government agency. You were probably not in a good mood anyway, depending on the agency, and you wanted out as quickly as possible. You demanded answers to questions such as ‘Why do I have to have a photo ID with that?’ or ‘Why do I have to fill out this form?’ or ‘Why can’t you process that in less than 24 hours?’ While this was the first time you had EVER acted in this manner, it was probably the 100th time the employee had dealt with a similar person.

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Name : Brian23026, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 26, City : Peru, State : IN, Country : United States, Occupation : journalism, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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