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How many organizations do you know that have a thousand whistleblower issues a year? It's a pretty interesting number, and worthwhile comparing to organization

• sverige 10y ago
  I'm no fan of the NSA, but the number of reports means nothing if a large percentage of them don't actually involve them doing anything "wrong." A friend is a regional HR director at a large corporation I used to work for (120k employees). There was an ethics hotline to report bad behavior, and he saw most of the complaints that came through for his region. Most were groundless. In fact, one was a report on me because I wouldn't exclude a poor customer survey score for one of my indirect reports. That score affected her ranking for raises, etc. When that went nowhere, she reported me to the FBI. Not even kidding. Some people are nuts, and some nuts file lots of reports.
  • kabdib 10y ago
    On the other hand, a large number of whistleblower reports is an interesting signal. You can probably do a rough comparison with other organizations (even spook orgs) and use that to get a sense if things are going sour; order of magnitude matters.