Federal Employee's Controversial Side Gig

McLaren Pineover, a federal spokesperson, used her position to promote her fashion side job while overseeing mass layoffs, raising ethical concerns in Washington.


Federal Employee's Controversial Side Gig

Maklarein Bingaúver, talking from the names of the agency on the issues of personnel, was engaged not only in the dismissal of thousands of federal employees but also in the provision of pressure on others for the justification of her staying at the workplace. She was also engaged in her side activities, being an ambitious model and public videographer on the Instagram platform. She filmed at least 10 videoclips in her agency, demonstrating clothing and directing subscribers of her account to the site, where they could purchase the shown clothing.

On the same day, when the agency on personnel issues sent to the entire government a memorandum calling on federal officials to define obstacles with which they encounter in their work "to quickly reduce the labor activity of employees with low productivity", Bingaúver published a video clip, sending a goal on an object with the commentary "Working view" and hashtags "influential marketing", at this time placing a link to her Instagram, where viewers could buy the shown dress for 475 dollars.

The authorities over the USA stated that the video clips published by Bingaúver could violate the rules limiting the use of state property for personal purposes, since, working, she used a web site, which paid commissions to those who created content for promoting clothing brands.

Former employees of the personnel agency during the administration of former President Joe Biden in an interview with CNN expressed regret that Bingaúver published photographs of herself as a model facet in the field of fashion on state property, protecting massive dismissals of federal employees and accusing higher officials in the Trump administration of laziness and profligacy.

The director of communications at the agency on personnel issues Jake Miller, who was appointed to a political position in Biden's administration, said: "Your primary task as a leader is to protect and support your employees", adding: "Instead of utilizing all your strengths to support your team, you post videos about fashion... This is remedial and humorous".

Bingaúver began to work in the federal office of human resources in January and presented numerous data supporting the steps of Trump's administration to lay off employees, who until now remained on the experimental device, and proposed to buy out for dozens of others.

After sending electronic messages to federal service employees last month, calling on to present five key points of the past week, Bingaúver described this as "the obligation of effective and contributory federal working strength", and did not answer many questions posed to her, but at this point closed her Instagram after CNN's questions about the feasibility of its existence.

Bingaúver filmed video clips in the director's office on communications, where she currently works on the fifth floor of the headquarters of the management in Washington according to the words of three former employees.

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