c-span: what's the john nesbit story? >> guest: the nesbit story is more of a rights story; it's a combination story. john nesbit was an assistant united states attorney... c-span: not his real name. >> guest: not his real name, but the person was -- whose boss had a terrible secretary, and he couldn't get rid of her because it's a federal employee. there's this whole bureaucracy about federal employees. his boss couldn't take her anymore so he kicked her down to john nesbit and his colleague. she never showed up for work on time, did a terrible job, had a terrible attitude. they did what you have to do under the rules of the bureaucracy for federal employees and started making a log of all the things she did wrong. finally, they had a complaint -- she didn't show up for work for a week or something. one thing after another, after 18 months they finally got the most severe sanction they could, which was a serious downgrade which meant that she didn't get as big a raise as she otherwise would have gotten. otherwise, no effe