A Massive, Unauthorized 'Man Cave' Was Found In An EPA Warehouse

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/epa-shuts-down-man-cave-2013-6


The EPA found gym equipment, couches, TVs and passports scattered throughout the "man cave" in a Maryland warehouse.


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dedicated to preserving natural spaces, but apparently "man caves" are not considered critical wildlife habitat.

That's why the agency dismantled the extensive man cave that private contractors had set up in a large EPA storage warehouse in suburban Landover, Md., northeast of Washington, D.C.

The contractor, Apex Logistics, was hired by the EPA in 2007 to manage the agency's 70,000-square-foot (6,503 square meters) warehouse.

But Apex is now barred from the site, because their employees had set up couches, big-screen TVs, refrigerators, gym equipment and other furnishings inside the storage facility, according to the government's business news daily Government Executive.


Read more: http://www.livescience.com/37221-secret-man-cave-epa-warehouse.html#ixzz2VdDXRS4c

[NYC_SKP]

1. When you're on the dole it's good to have things to do.

I suspect we have some fat government contracts with little oversight and little actual work to be done.

The contractors need something to do while on the clock and this is what the little fuckers did.

[Sunlei]

2. Apex Logistics contractor w/ passports? that is a security issue, hummm

http://www.apexglobe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=21&lang=en

[chervilant]

3. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

O, the irony!

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. It's the box of passports that's worrying

OITA contacted the Department of State to determine an interim standard operating procedure for the decommissioning of expired or no longer needed government passports for agency personnel. Beginning immediately, the EPA will send expired or unneeded government passports to the Department of State for destruction, until such time as the agency can put in place a passport decommissioning process with the appropriate safeguards.

http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2013/20130531-13-P-0272.pdf

It seems like someone had the beginnings of a scam going on, I think.