Anger Builds at EPA

As societal anger builds, the first to pop off are the amygdala-deficient, who were teetering at the edge all along.

“They passed shame on the turnpike of life some time ago,” said Joel Dvoskin, a psychologist at the University of Arizona. “That was an expression of rage, an act of extreme disrespect against management.”

“Whatever else is going on with that person, they are probably pretty angry,” he said.

One employee named two suspects in an email, including… an employee who was carrying ammunition and “had been observed kicking the front door.”

Some measures of anger are better than others, though, and most are better than this one.

Region 8 employees were sent a memo in February asking them to report any further incidents after an employee placed “feces in the hallway.”

According to the report:

The memo’s call for more information flushed out a large number of strange complaints from employees. Feces were not Region 8’s only problem.

The day after the memo went out, one EPA official said, “One of my employees refused to come into the office today because she is terrified after hearing a story on the train home last night.”

“A male supervisor … told her that management knows that it is a female on the [redacted] floor who has been wiping feces and menstrual blood on the walls (I’m really sorry, this is beyond gross) and that they are worried that her behavior is escalating,” the official said in an email.

I’m not sure how you escalate that behavior.

EPA, like any highly competent government agency demanding of excellence, jumped into action.

Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway.

Workplace shootings however, are either still tolerable or an email on them is to come.

Apocalypse cometh™