None of this is forgivable or even acceptable, of course, but my point isn't that ASA is some cornucopia of luxury, simply that if you base your complaints to management (or the internet) on the idea that being an ASA employee is uniquely hard or oppressive, you won't make much traction beyond your immediate circle of peers.
Sadly, that is the case, which is why nothing is done about it. The few still work against the national interest, for self-interest. That's what really grates- the reasons
why. It will, it seems (unfortunately), take something really bad to happen and some prison sentences before the problems are sorted out.
It doesn't have to be like this. Woody, with your vast experience of other employers (being 30 years old with 11 years of controlling experience {
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It doesn't have to be like this.
In the mean time, the "at risk remuneration" culture rolls on.