To put it mildly, government workers sometimes get a bad reputation for being lazy folks who just want to spend your tax dollars leaning on a shovel or surfing the internet. While every industry has it’s dead weight, most government workers I know are passionate about their roles as civil servants. None more so than a group of Washington State Department of Transportation workers who recently rejected prize money for figuring out a way to save taxpayers millions of dollars.
KOMO News has the amazing story of this team who put their heads together for the good of the state.