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This was when I decided to never work for the FBI: http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/fbi-agent-fitness-test/ http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/fbi-agent-fitness-test/

by hawkice 10y ago

This was when I decided to never work for the FBI: http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/fbi-agent-fitness-test/ http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/fbi-agent-fitness-test/ It's important to note that this means handicapped people are no longer allowed desk jobs as analysts at the FBI. Missing a limb? You can't fight crime anymore! That's not my primary concern, though, per se. My concern is that firing and disqualifying people who are otherwise talented MUST reduce clearance rates. It's can't NOT do that. If FBI employees looking fit is more important to Mr. Comey[1] than arresting murderers, I have absolutely no interest in his organization. [1] “I want you to look like the squared-away object of that reverence,” Comey wrote in a memo to agents. “I want the American people to be able to take one glance at you and think, ‘THERE is a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.’” http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/fbi-fitness-test http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/fbi-fitness-test

phaus 10y ago
If you read the entire article, he toys with the idea of having teams made up of a few agents and several non-agent technical experts. There are already tons of non-agent IT/Software Engineering/Netsec jobs at the FBI. You can still be a fed, you just don't carry a badge and a gun. Lots of the people I worked with were in awful shape.
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DannyB2 10y ago
The FBI fitness test: hire people who have a higher statistical possibility of being narcissistic. (Wikipedia: "Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.") Respect my authority. Bow and be reverent when I question you. Be glad I don't beat you to a bloody pulp right here when nobody is looking.
- hawkice 10y ago
  This sounds like way too much, but the sibling comment is a bit too little. Saying fatsos don't get a badge and a get a shittier title IS a deliberate status punishment. Reminds me of strong negative opinions I have about high school, where push-up ability translates into pecking order position. Comey's statement does seem at least slightly vainglorious. He certainly has a high opinion of how the FBI should be viewed (exceeding, for instance, 'professional' or 'public servant's), and believes it should be obvious who FBI agents are, which will annihilate their undercover operations. So he is sacrificing a lot in order to get big(ger), dumb(er, due to firing and not hiring good investigators) jocks. But I don't think it is meant to engender obedience or fear in civilians. I think it is just a Bad Decision.

by hawkice 10y ago

phaus 10y ago

If you read the entire article, he toys with the idea of having teams made up of a few agents and several non-agent technical experts. There are already tons of non-agent IT/Software Engineering/Netsec jobs at the FBI. You can still be a fed, you just don't carry a badge and a gun. Lots of the people I worked with were in awful shape.

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DannyB2 10y ago

The FBI fitness test: hire people who have a higher statistical possibility of being narcissistic. (Wikipedia: "Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.") Respect my authority. Bow and be reverent when I question you. Be glad I don't beat you to a bloody pulp right here when nobody is looking.

hawkice 10y ago
This sounds like way too much, but the sibling comment is a bit too little. Saying fatsos don't get a badge and a get a shittier title IS a deliberate status punishment. Reminds me of strong negative opinions I have about high school, where push-up ability translates into pecking order position. Comey's statement does seem at least slightly vainglorious. He certainly has a high opinion of how the FBI should be viewed (exceeding, for instance, 'professional' or 'public servant's), and believes it should be obvious who FBI agents are, which will annihilate their undercover operations. So he is sacrificing a lot in order to get big(ger), dumb(er, due to firing and not hiring good investigators) jocks. But I don't think it is meant to engender obedience or fear in civilians. I think it is just a Bad Decision.