I'm feeling kinda cranky today, so here goes.
1. Lazy-ass, do-nothing federal employees. There are some truly brilliant people here at the CDC doing some important work, but there are also a ton of worthless morons as well. The kicker is that, thanks to permanent employees being essentially tenured, they are basically no reprecussions for their inactivity. Really irrtates me.
2. They are in the process of adding on to the parking deck so there are only a few hundred parking spots available. Rather than do something sensible like work a deal with Emory University to use some of the spots in their humongous parking deck right across the street (never even 1/4 full...even when school is in session) they have shuttle buses that are at three locations a few miles from the CDC campus. You drive there, park, get on the bus and wait around until it leaves (every 15 min). Not only does this add extra time onto everyone's commute, but you can forget about ever going out to lunch or running errands at lunch since just retrieving your car woul eat up half of your lunch hour.:|
3. The building I work in should be razed to the ground. It is literally falling apart. Hot water goes out every other week, the air handling system is screwed up so that when a truck is idling at the loading dock all the exhaust fumes somehow get pumped into the offices on our floor. F*cking charming. Remember when the anthrax thing hit and there was a one-day interruption in the research at CDC because of a problem with the building? That's the one I work in....lucky me.
Okay, I'm done.
Fausto