FCC insider: This place is hell; silent protest planned

FCC INSIDER: THIS PLACE IS HELL; SILENT PROTEST PLANNED
[SOURCE: ars technica, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
[Commentary] On Tuesday, the third anniversary of Kevin Martin's tenure as Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, at least some staff will arrive at work dressed in black. A "silent but expressive protest" is what they're calling the move. What for? "Because this place is hell." It appears that a critical mass of FCC grunts are sick of what they experience as a super-politicized work life in which just about anything that they want to do has to get the go-ahead from the top, that being Kevin Martin. "Nothing happens in the Commission without the approval of the Chairman's office," my source told me. "It is incredible. We have become so political." Why are FCC employees upset about this? Not because they disagree with Kevin Martin's perspective on this or that FCC issue, but because he and his top subordinates demand that staff skip proper procedures and leapfrog various rules, even Congressional mandated rules, on a day-to-day level.
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