What the heck is up with Federal Law Enforcement ?

[cstone]

Kind of hard to be a hero while serving thieves and professional liars and we can never be better than our bosses in any profession (public or private sector).

Oddly enough I feel in many ways that I and many of my colleagues are better than many of our bosses.

No amount of corruptions in others and your environment are acceptable excuses for your own lack of integrity.

The only people I've ever met who wanted to be a "hero" had personal mental and emotional instability issues.

IMO, the searchlight for "news" is always turning. Sometimes it catches something and like a dog on a bone or sent, it keeps looking and digging. Many of these recent issues have been around in varying degrees for decades. This is the natural disinfectant of sunlight.

IMO, the Clinton Administration had a devastating impact on the US Secret Service.

[RMAC757]

Oddly enough I feel in many ways that I and many of my colleagues are better than many of our bosses.

No amount of corruptions in others and your environment are acceptable excuses for your own lack of integrity.

The only people I've ever met who wanted to be a "hero" had personal mental and emotional instability issues.

IMO, the searchlight for "news" is always turning. Sometimes it catches something and like a dog on a bone or sent, it keeps looking and digging. Many of these recent issues have been around in varying degrees for decades. This is the natural disinfectant of sunlight.

IMO, the Clinton Administration had a devastating impact on the US Secret Service.

We need people of your caliber running the show.

[Skip]

Oddly enough I feel in many ways that I and many of my colleagues are better than many of our bosses.

[snip]

I don't disagree that you are, objectively, but subjectively you are never valued/perceived to be better because a bad boss will drag everyone down.

And this is coming from someone who has worked for some horrible bosses (mostly private sector). Doesn't matter how hard the team works, or how much good they do, it can easily be flushed right down the shitter. In those cases, I acted with integrity and resigned because my heart could no longer be in it.

But if I were tied to a pension, benefits, decent paycheck, and faced questionable prospects I might make a different decision for my family.

I think this is one reason I am skeptical of public sector work in general. If it were structured more like private sector work, folks could exercise their conscious without feeling like they are throwing it all away.