As a workplace, the State Department is highly rated for employee satisfaction and career development, even compared with private industry and nonprofit organizations. The staff of the Office of Civil Rights knows full well, however, that workplace problems and career hassles still happen. Our job is to assist in resolving conflicts, provide advice and investigate and sometimes adjudicate complaints made under equal employment opportunity laws.
You may have a boss who you think is stupid, but you should know that being stupid is not necessarily illegal. Most supervisors, managers, senior executives, senior Foreign Service officers and Ambassadors are competent and approachable. The Department is consistently a very highly rated workplace.
