Most of us who have ever, you know, worked, have expected to be accountable for the time we spend on the job. Some of us punch a time clock, and some of us fill out a timesheet. In my years as a jacket-and-tie corporate consultant, I often was required to account for the time I billed, usually in one-hour increments, describing what I had been doing.
It’s all about accountability, you see.
But when federal government employees are asked to return some information as to what they spend their time doing, as we have seen, the hue and cry are audible on a small rocky asteroid revolving around a star in the Crab Nebula. Now, a second email has gone out to federal workers, this time from the Office of Personnel Management, asking not only what they did the previous week but also requires submitting a report every Monday.
The Department of…
