Exactly.
Taking the time and energy to reply to emails on daily minutiae: OK.
Not handling the important emails: Not OK.
I don’t think the “daily minutiae” emails should figure in to the picture at all. Bash the guy for being incompetent, not for needing help choosing a shirt. Comments like “he couldn’t even make a decision about his fucking SHIRT” just sound shrill and petty to me.
I don’t think it’s that he needed advice about dressing that rankles – it’s that that appeared to be a more immediate concern to him, and one of the few things that actually engaged him.
If this digest is an accurate sampling of his electronic correspondence, he was neglectful of everything except for his appearance.
I sincerely hope this sumbitch is held criminally responsible.
“Can I quit now? Can I come home?” is just run-of-the-mill petulant slacker-speak – but “I’m trapped now, please rescue me,” crosses the line into irony so appalling that someone ought to have his head nailed to the floor for it.
Is this a valid sample of the e-mails? I don’t want to defend the guy, but if you made a PDF file out of some of my e-mails over the years I would sound like a fuck-tard as well.
Also, do we agree that Blanco and the NOLA mayor royally screwed up as well? Brown says it was the locals, the locals sed it was the feds. I tend to think the government failed the people on all three levels.
To the tune of John Brown’s Body:
Mike Brown’s emails are a motherfucking shame
Mike Brown’s emails are a motherfucking shame
But his paycheck still comes in!
Chorus:
Jesus, Jesus, what a fuck-tard!
Jesus, Jesus, what a fuck-tard!
He’s getting paid by us!
He’s gone away from NOLA and resigned his former post
He’s gone away from NOLA and resigned his former post
But he’s still getting paid!
Chorus
He is a guy who ought to be cock-punched
He is a guy who ought to be cock-punched
Instead of getting paid!
Chorus
Mike Brown fucked up his entire term
Mike Brown fucked up his entire term
He still makes more than me!
Chorus
The imbecile ought to clean up the entire Astrodome
The imbecile ought to clean up the entire Astrodome
Using only his tongue!
Chorus
(If anyone wants to attempt the more complex versions, I’d love to see it.)
Scary thought: If these are the best examples they can come up with, I shudder to think of what the un-released e-mails might say.
Late Friday afternoon is typically the time when administrations make press realeasesthat they’d just as soon not have to see in print (I think the term is “Friday Night Dump”). My guess is that you’ll see (or not see, because it is Friday night) the following press release from FEMA today:
“Michael Brown, former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, resigned his temporary appointment with the Agency this afternoon, effective immediately. 'I am proud of my accomplishments as FEMA director,” Brown said, ‘And have decided to step aside in order to spend more time with my family.’ Brown has been in a temporary capacity with the Agency, providing consultive services to new director, Michael Chertoff."
My mom lives in the same development as this guy (Cameron Station).
Anyone want to know what kind of dog he has?
-Joe, hits that the answer is ironic
(and then he hints it)
-Joe
A Baltese Devastation Watcher? Or a Mongolian Whiner? Oh. I know. An Arabian Crony.
No…I said ironic!
-Joe, could use a tiny keg of brandy right now
A five-star french mastiff?
I agree that the short sleeve and fashion god business is irrelevant.
But the “anything I should do or tweak” comment is instructive. It does show a boss who has no real idea how to proceed, and is waiting for a hint from his subordinates.
That’s a really crappy appopintment Bush made, and I’m very glad to guy is out. Not so happy he’s continuing to draw his salary; based on these emails, it’s hard to imagine precisely what ‘expertise’ he has that’s so necessary.
Brown’s appointment and tenure was a huge screw-up.
Fine, fine, it’s a St. Bernard.
Maybe that’s why Dubya picked him - he figured a guy with one of them cartoon rescue dogs would be good at the job. Or maybe he just liked the idea of a dog carrying around booze.
And no, I’m not joking about Brownie’s dog. Or my mother.
-Joe, actually has a mother, believe it or not
Cock punched!
Hahaha ha ha ha ha ha
(sigh)
Brown’s constant attention to daily minutiae (rolled up sleeves, shirt color, dog sitters, how to “tweak”) to the detriment of the important things is exactly the point. He had no leadership ability, no sense of to priorities, nothing. The emails are the evidence of this. He was grossly incompetent and should have never gotten the job. He should have been fired outright.
I AM A FASHION GOD.
Mom’s ex was a Nordstrom’s aficionado as well. This news merely confirms my belief that a lot of flaming assholes shop there.
…oh shit, supervisor’s coming. Better roll up my sleeves!!!
My guess is that he is currently an expert on not giving interviews to the press that would reflect badly on the administration.
Then it’s a stupid point that doesn’t make any sense, because paying attention to the daily minutiae weren’t detrimental to the important things. Unless the spend 12 hours a day doing nothing but writing short, one-liner emails on non-work related topics, they just don’t fucking matter.
Bull fucking shit.
one of the points (to me, at least) was, for example, the email that sat in his fucking in box for 4 days before he forwarded it on - the one where folks w/respirators and medical equipment were wanting to know where to go, where they’d be needed.
Brown had time to reply to fucking emails about his goddamn shirt, but it took him 4 motherfucking people harming days to forward on one mother fucking email offering actual fucking assistance where and when it was fucking desperately needed?
I’m not sure why, but this mis-post somehow seems to be entirely apt for this thread.