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OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
2. Oh good grief... just stop.. he was an asshole
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 01:46 PM
Mar 2015

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/104484/why-scott-gration-us-ambassador-kenya-really-resigned

"Some people had to go to some real shit holes to escape him."

Attrition rates at the Nairobi Embassy were staggeringly high, said a former U.S. government official who worked on Sudan. Many of Gration's staff opted to be transferred to the highly dangerous Iraq and Afghanistan embassies rather than continue to work for him. "Some people had to go to some real shit holes to escape him," said the former official. Gration made capricious policy that hurt staff morale. At one point, he told his staff that they could either sacrifice the extra pay they make for working in a volatile region, a State Department sacred cow, or he would force their spouses and children to leave the country. (In Kenya, officers are allowed to bring their families and collect 'post differential' pay).

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