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| Project Gunwalker: ATF - Promotions weren't Promotions |
| 2011-08-18 |
| The following statement is from Scot Thomasson, chief, Public Affairs Division, Office of Public and Governmental Affairs, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF): "Recent media reports have inaccurately characterized personnel changes involving ATF agents associated with the Fast and Furious operation as promotions. Special Agents Voth, Newell and McMahon were laterally transferred from operational positions and moved into administrative roles, they were not promoted. They did not receive salary or grade increases nor did they assume positions with greater responsibility. On May 13, 2011, Deputy Assistant Director McMahon, Field Operations was reassigned to a position within the Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations back filling a position that had been vacant for over a year. His transfer was one of six other transfers announced on that day involving various other positions. On August 1, 2011, Special Agent Newell, who had been selected as Country Attache Mexico City, was reassigned to the Office of Management to assist with the OIG investigation and Congressional inquiry. Furthermore, Special Agent Voth was reassigned to a headquarters position, a lateral move into a program area. These transfers/reassignments have never been described as promotions in any of the documents announcing them." |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #6 If you have a highly placed manager "who is an embarrassment for any reason", why is said manager still employed? If that position to which they've been Limogered* is paid at all, it should be a significant pay cut. One of the bosses in the company I worked for (way back in the 70s) was a former Chicago City Hall Payroller. We'll call this fellow Ricky. Ricky's patron had gotten the boot, and at 27, Ricky's resume said he'd worked for the Chicago Dept of (something or other). What that really meant is that he'd sat with his feet on his desk when he showed up at all. Ricky's incompetence cost the company a bundle. He got demoted to salesman at a damaged goods outlet store. *Limogere (verb, French; courtesy of JFM) In WWI, France discovered that they had so many generals who didn't know what end of the gun was up that they sent a batch of them to "protect" Limoges, which was way behind enemy lines and where their incompetence couldn't do any further damage. |
| Posted by: mom 2011-08-18 22:45 |
| #5 When I went to bureaucrats' school The things one can study! Very cool, Mercutio. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-18 22:34 |
| #4 Spinmeisters. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-18 15:42 |
| #3 And if you want to keep an eye on a weak link, what better dept to put him in than the headhunters? Just 'cause he has a "position" there, doesn't mean he actually has a job. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2011-08-18 14:11 |
| #2 No, this actually makes more sense. When I went to bureaucrats' school (I did, honest), one of the techniques recommended when you had a highly placed manager who was an embarassment for whatever reason, was to move them laterally to a position where they couldn't do anymore harm, like Ass't Director for Special Projects - meaning count paper clips and keep your damn head down. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2011-08-18 14:09 |
| #1 bullshit reassigned to a position within the Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations would be like putting a criminal in the DA's office |
| Posted by: Frank G on the road 2011-08-18 12:50 |