Deep state

When Trump came into office many people wondered if there would be any difference with a business man in the White House. The early warning signal was the size of his staff. The Democrat Clinton has at least 4,200 staffers on the payroll while the GOP nominee has about 880, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings by NBC. Shortly after the election the state department promised to reduce staff by 35%. This affected all who worked there from the top muckity mucks down to the worker bees. This hardly inspired them to line up behind the new president understanding that these seasoned bureaucrats consider each new administration as the Christmas help. They say we were here before you came and we will be here after you leave. They realized that if Clinton had been elected things would continue on as always but this new guy was causing a great deal of consternation and this resulted in a new phrase in the vernacular, something called the deep state. These were government employees who were upset with the Trump management style. In government success if often measured by how much a manager can increase his staff the thinking being that the more people you have the more you must be accomplishing. In business it is the opposite and thus we have phrases like downsizing, layoffs and attrition. When Tillerson became CEO at Exon they had 80,000 employees and 10 years later when he left they had 72,000.