{"id":31439,"date":"2012-08-10T06:24:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31439"},"modified":"2012-08-10T06:24:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:24:40","slug":"the-duffel-blog-va-affairs-hires-27000-additional-workers-to-procrastinate-collect-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31439","title":{"rendered":"The Duffel Blog: VA Affairs Hires 27,000 Additional Workers To Procrastinate, Collect Paycheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably the best satire I&#8217;ve seen come out of the satirical blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2012\/08\/veterans-affairs-hires-27000-additional-workers-to-procrastinate-collect-paycheck\/\">The Duffel Blog<\/a> in a while. And it&#8217;s written by StrikeFO;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of a \u201cHiring Our Heroes\u201d campaign, about half of the new employees will be transitioning military personnel that served in pay-grades of E-3 and below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese soldiers bring considerable experience in hiding under the desk when someone comes by,\u201d said Shinseki, \u201cand really know how to put forth a convincing story of \u2018already being tasked out\u2019 by a non-existent supervisor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new hires will enter training classes over the next few months so that they can \u201chit the ground sitting,\u201d according to Shinseki, and help streamline the Department. The training classes are set to be two weeks long and will cover a variety of topics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did I mention that it&#8217;s satire? Well it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably the best satire I&#8217;ve seen come out of the satirical blog The Duffel &hellip; <a title=\"The Duffel Blog: VA Affairs Hires 27,000 Additional Workers To Procrastinate, Collect Paycheck\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31439\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Duffel Blog: VA Affairs Hires 27,000 Additional Workers To Procrastinate, Collect Paycheck<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}