The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the past year, with leaders easing hiring requirements and accelerating recruitment in ways that some current and former officials see as a lowering of long-accepted standards.
The FBI has used social media campaigns to attract applicants, offered abbreviated training for candidates from other federal agencies and relaxed requirements for support staff seeking to become agents, according to people familiar with the changes and internal communications seen by The Associated Press. At the same time, the Justice Department has opened the door to hiring prosecutors right out of law school to help fill vacancies in U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
Some current and former agents also say the FBI is promoting into positions of leadership employees with less experience than would be customary for the jobs.
Way to gloss over the insanely evil, and massively disrespectful, harmful treatment of all federal civilian workers.
This country does not appreciate the work your average government workers does enough. Because when it’s done well, you don’t even notice. But your lives are constantly made better by the work that government civilians do.
Enjoy the garbage you deserve.
I watched thousands of your government employees back down without a fight. They chose not to organize, chose to comply. They chose cowardice. Fuck ‘em.