Yes it would probably. I mean he is a top treasury guy, so I don’t want to try and carry his water too much. But career civil servants are very used to a culture where you are encouraged constantly to demonstrate neutral outward views and to more or less follow direction from supervisors without pushback. It’s one of the things you sorta slam into if you transition in from private sector. Everything is “ask your direct supervisor” military-lite command chain. His thought process is probably, it would be against protocol to comply with this request, but the executive is basically asking for it, so I just resign to satisfy both requirements. Also he’s treasury and probably likes money? And resigning might get him better retirement pension, not sure. That’s not a point in his favor, just trying to paint the picture where career civil servants are not usually activists and have material concerns.
Yes it would probably. I mean he is a top treasury guy, so I don’t want to try and carry his water too much. But career civil servants are very used to a culture where you are encouraged constantly to demonstrate neutral outward views and to more or less follow direction from supervisors without pushback. It’s one of the things you sorta slam into if you transition in from private sector. Everything is “ask your direct supervisor” military-lite command chain. His thought process is probably, it would be against protocol to comply with this request, but the executive is basically asking for it, so I just resign to satisfy both requirements. Also he’s treasury and probably likes money? And resigning might get him better retirement pension, not sure. That’s not a point in his favor, just trying to paint the picture where career civil servants are not usually activists and have material concerns.