What does 'the government at work' mean

government job. Unofficial task done in the workplace. Common abbreviation: G-job. ... Thus the response when the supervisor questions what appears to be personal work done on company time: "it's government work."

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.