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ATF webpage
A page calling for cleaning up ATF, together with a blog, written by agents.
I've griped about the agency as much as anyone, but the bottom line is there are folks with it who are decent, and folks who are not, and the problem is that the folks who are not get promoted, get into power, and are in positions to shaft those who are decent. As the page notes, there have been about 100 employee complaints a year, which in my federal experience, is staggering. In my decade with Interior, I heard of two from our agency (nearly a thousand employees) and one was valid and one BS. Even if I only heard via grapevine of a small fraction of complaints, that still would suggest that ATF is generating an incredible number of complaints, even without Good Old Boys parties.
Comments
Thank you for the blog post regarding CleanUpATF.
Posted by: Sierra Donaven at April 24, 2009 08:18 AM
They recently got a new director, didn't they ?
Posted by: SamW at April 24, 2009 08:50 AM
and folks who are not, and the problem is that the folks who are not get promoted, get into power, and are in positions to shaft those who are decent.
The problem is is that what David said above is the NORM in the US. I call it "Sh_t floats." Floats to the top. Same issues at universities, state governments, corporations, etc. Those who are inept float to the top where they can really do damage because of their total lack of competence.
Tiochfaidh ar la!
Posted by: fwb at April 24, 2009 09:22 AM
Believe it or not, but the San Antonio Field Office of BATFE (who had some significant involvement in the WACO debacle) are actually pretty easy to get along with and generally reasonable, rarely out trolling the law-abiding for possible infractions. I've got some choice words about the general attitudes of the Atlanta office, but that would involve using curse words in your commenting area...
Posted by: Thomas at April 24, 2009 09:45 AM
Too bad it isn't a readable site. They should try using HTML, instead of whatever proprietary gunk they're using. Flash? Silverlight? Dunno. I see only border graphics, plus a broken sitemap link. Oh, the "about" link works at least.
Using plain old HTML will also result in search engines being able to find and index more content, likely resulting in more page views. Good idea, if you want people to actually find what you have to say.
Posted by: jed at April 24, 2009 04:26 PM
Hmm.. the site is readable to me, and frankly I was amazed at the effort they took to construct it. I don't know if it helps get across the overall effort better than relatively plain text etc, but it is eyecatching.
I skimmed through a number of pages, and my impression is it is solely devoted to internal problems and politics of the agency -- no mention (that I saw) of their, umm... shall we day "image problem"... with the shooting public.
Posted by: Eric at April 24, 2009 06:48 PM
Very professional and appears to be business, not bashing.
Posted by: kimeg1 at April 24, 2009 06:55 PM