Career diplomats instructed not to make eye contact with Tillerson - WTF

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/its-medusa-internet-loses-it-after-diplomats-are-told-to-avoid-eye-contact-with-rex-tillerson/

A Washington Post article published Thursday revealed a curious tidbit about President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.

In the piece, penned by reporters Anne Hearan and Carol Morello, Tillerson is described as spending his first several weeks at the State Department “isolated,” and “walled off” from the agency’s bureaucrats.

According to the report, his “distant management style has created growing bewilderment among foreign officials” and “threatens to undermine the power and reach of the State Department.”

But the impact of Tillerson’s reclusiveness does not only threaten the State Department’s interactions with foreign diplomats, it also reportedly threatens basic, day-to-day, human interactions expected of anyone in a typical workplace environment.

Per the Post: “Many career diplomats say they still have not met him, and some have been instructed not to speak to him directly — or even make eye contact.”

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[yuiyoshida]

1. Well of course, if they do They will turn to STONE.

[Scarsdale]

4. Delusions of grandeur?

tRump and President Bannon sure can pick 'em!!

[yuiyoshida]

5. The worst Dreggs

picked from back alleys and the Sewers!

[UCmeNdc]

2. Another rich guy with a few loose screws?

[grossproffit]

3. He's confused himself with God.

[onethatcares]

6. the eyes are the window to the soul

what could he possibly be afraid of?

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Even the"no eye contact" thing was OTT for Emperor Hirohito...

...at least after WW2.

[Left-over]

8. What an elitist prick!!!

[Ligyron]

9. The head diplomat refuses to meet with people?

That's the whole point of being a diplomat in the first place, isn't it?

Trump has searched far and wide to find the worst, least qualified people for his Cabinet. Most of them are direct enemies of the Department they were picked to run.

But we knew that...

[obamanut2012]

10. Fuck that -- I would be eyeballing him and good morning him constantly

WTF is this elitist shit???????

[leftynyc]

11. I'd be careful about

these kinds of stories. They said the same thing about Hillary Clinton when she was first lady.

[Bettie]

12. He thinks he's a king

and can not be bothered by the peasants who are not worthy even to look upon his face.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Oh Hell -- give him the full Lyndon Johnson treatment !

A big slap on the back or pat on the head, arm tight around the shoulders, leaning waaaay over ...



No eye contact, right.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. That's one of my favorite political images. Maybe my top favorite.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. It's easier to fire someone when there isn't a human connection. Tactic of hatchet men.