also, a job description would be nice.
I will tell you in advance that my instinct is to say that the guy who, on national tv said that they "hadn't known about the convention center people until today" (like, a week ago), to a CNN journalist, and then clarified that remark with "We learned about them *factually* today"[1] (as opposed to, say, mythically?) gets to take responsibility too, since the leadership of the organization was a complete twit.
Also, let's not forget that the guy's LAST job was as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association - FROM WHICH HE WAS FIRED. IMHO, being as the man had *no* emergency management background, he shouldn't have been put in charge of a federal agency designed for emergency management in the first place.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, the attitude and capabilities of the working grunts of any organization are directly influenced by the attitude and capabilities of their superiors. Ergo, if the guy in charge is a twit, the grunts aren't going to have a whole lot to work with.
[1]I may well have gotten the order of the words wrong, but that is indeed the gist of the quote. |
