County Workers Not HappyHappy

Huckleberries has obtained the results of the recent survey of Kootenai County employees . Judging by summarized remarks, county employees aren’t happy. Here’s some of the responses when asked about “elected officials”:

• The only elected officials who would have positive marks in this section is the Sheriff
• County officials do not respect us as employees
• I hope commissioners and other elected officials will take negative feedback to heart
• I respect the officials, but not their decisions
• Elected officials butt heads and the employees pay the price
• There is no true oversight over the county. Elected officials are free to do whatever they want with little regard to the county as a whole. We have 7 individual kingdoms instead of a unified body of government. This is impacting us more than ever.
• Some seem to work for the public as a whole, others seem to work to support an ideology regardless of the public’s majority views
• Elected officials are the reason the county has a horrible morale and such negative workplace right now. Choices they make are not being made to protect and help employees
• Individually the elected officials have leadership skills. But those are morphed when they get together and the total leadership approach is ineffective

Question: Are these (and other complaints listed in link) merely employees seeing only negative re: their workplace? Or is there something wrong at the Kootenai County Courthouse?