Never-mind gay in the military, what about gay in government!

This has been almost 6 years in coming and I said at 53 I would be a little more bold! So here is a story that will not surprise many, but depicts how gay people are treated in government and unlike the military that have been there and lets face it doing each other for decades the government shuns anyone identified as gay!

Let me explain;

I was hired as a contractor right after 9/11 sight unseen solely based on my resume and documents I had written. I moved fro San Francisco to New Jersey to support the FAA Technical center with NADIN, Capstone and other weather related programs through RICOM!

Less than 9 months later or around this time I was asked to lead a group of 18 or so through another contract controlled by a company CNSI! They gave me 18 I turned it into 32 full time positions. Obviously one accomplishes this because of competence and deliverable. I was the first in the FAA to ask for weekly individual reports of task at hand and accomplished. I thought when I asked for this I would be beheaded! But with a little support from the powers to be most followed through except those that were in bed with the FAA!

You see some people had become fixtures in a well rooted incompetent system. A few very talented individulas run the support system made up of app 500 people mostly contractors. Yes supposedly government is small! This is purely bullshit! Under President Clinton as he made government smaller he neglected to tell Americans that a new line item was entered called "other" and the start of contractors took off! It was like a virus that continues today!

I enjoyed working with Steve Davi! Though he is no longer with us he cared about the taxpayer and was efficient and productive! So much he was given the responsibility to release Capstone. My team supported NADIN managed by Andy Isaksen (Tall boots)! I say this because he could talk his way out of a pile of shit and people believed him! Even when I would present facts to the contrary the man was talented at dishing bullshit and people ate it as if it was served on a gold platter. I have to say at this point his wife was the highest paid contractor and existed because her husband had power and a mouth that could sell you land on mars!

I enjoyed working at the FAA until Michael Gallagher, another efficient productive Manager left the organization. He like Steve Davi were not liked! You see it's not what you accomplished at the Center it's who's ass you kiss! That continues to this day. One has to ask why Managers today need secretaries making 85k when their job is reading a book or surfing the net. And Fran Bourne had two secretaries.. Of course she was a Group Manager! Just amazing at the waste of money! A few weeks ago I wrote to her and said it was time to retire! This may assist with her decision to do so!

But the main reason for this blog is not to expose the incompetent people that hire contractors to do their job while they shop at Macy's! It's to say that when I expressed in writing that a new manager should not be saying prayers at meetings or encourage me and my partner to join her church so we could be fixed, I was fired just for being gay. As a contractor you don't meed a reason to be released! I told Both Bill Balleste and Fran Bourne and some co-workers I trusted as to why she was releasing me and to no avail.

You see gay people are all over the FAA! But most that I knew, and believe me thee were lots, were closeted. Even when confronted in public coming out of a sex bookstore when you should be working the individuals would not admit to being gay! OK, so they just finished having sex with a guy or guys, sometimes 2-3 times in a day instead of working but don't tell anyone at the FAA you're gay for either you're moved around or if a contractor out of a job!

More on this in future blogs!

Dr Q