Department of General Services woes

The D.C. Department of General Services appears to be a general mess. There have been reports of overspending in the mammoth agency supposedly created to save money. These reports are now being compounded by questions about duplication of staff, allegations of abusive treatment of female employees and violations of personnel rules.

“Female employees are being terribly abused, mistreated, disrespected, mocked, ridiculed … and totally humiliated,” DGS employees wrote in a Jan. 13, 2012, letter addressed to President Obama and obtained by The Washington Examiner. “The city’s local leaders have abandoned us and clearly care nothing about the government employees.”