Every low level lanyard job person in DC: please don’t wear a campaign button in my house, someone could see it and I might get in trouble
SCOTUS: first you take a loan from someone with business before the court and then you just don’t pay it back. Did you see my insurrection flag.
Just had a conversation with someone who works for social security about how tightly controlled any expression of political affiliations is, not just within the building, but in terms of social media likes and dislikes.
I worked for city government, not federal, but same principle. We got yelled at because the local McDonalds wanted to give us free cheeseburgers on their 'public service recognition' day.
True story, I watched a friend / anonymous Dept of (Redacted) civil servant refuse to eat from a buffet because it wasn't made clear who had paid for the food at the event.
We never had any political signs or bumper stickers growing up because my dad was very serious about not breaking the electioneering rules.
But then my dad wasn't a SCOTUS justice, he was big on ethics.