Just to lighten the mood here’s a funny story which I might have put up before but can’t check because it would been in my older rants which are no longer available. Ok we and by that I mean my agency filed an unfair labor practice against the union representing the agency’s bargaining unit, and by we I mean me, because they had a rule that if you didn’t join the union even though they were required to represent you because they represented you, you wouldn’t get a lawyer to represent you but only a union steward. Now as an aside I can tell you that you would have been better off with the steward because they were better than the lawyers, but that’s not my point. So the case ended up in front of either the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia or the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which was created to handle cases involving federal agencies, one of which I was a member of, most likely the latter. So anyway when it was argued and the union tried to argue that they were the same, the judges told them to shut up and sit down and of course we won. But that’s not the point of this rant.

The funny thing happened in the case before mine. In that case after the lawyer made his case he went back and missed his chair and fell flat on his ass and even the judges couldn’t cover their laughter. Just a little humor.