I haven’t been working in government departments for long (recent graduate here!), but I’d like to think I’m doing my best, which is usually pretty good, to follow directions from up on high. Our new team leader has just rolled in, joining us at a time when many different pieces of work are ongoing. He’s a bit vocal, but his growl is more confusing than it is frightening. He seems nice enough, and he can be quite entertaining, but his instructions are always unnecessarily verbose and so incoherent that no one knows what to make of them or him. All his communications—and there are a lot of...
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