Snake bite

I have been a member of CleanupATF.org since I first learned of the site. I found some sort of unusual comfort knowing that ATF employees throughout the Country were dealing with the same sort of attacks and tactics that I have observed and endured at the hands of ATF management. My question is, has anyone experienced a positive change in the work place environment since cleanupATF.org went public?

I personally can say that I have experienced some of the faces changing, but the same double standard, mismanagement culture is alive and well. Retaliation and unfair treatment has continued within the management sub culture in our once great, widely respected agency, without any consequences to those in the GS 14 and above gang.

Keep fighting and don't let the bastards get you down.

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FROM TOP 20 TO 107. I will withold the obvious conclusions. Look closely at comparitives at bottom of page, (see attached PDF complete survey results). Then determine whether or not the litany of complaints brought to the attention of Msrs. Sullivan, Domenech, Carter, Hoover, Chait, McMahon over the last 5 yrs hold merit.

Yesterday afternoon I sat down and answered each and every question on the ATF Leadership survey. I intentionally went through the survey the first time and answered each question as straight forward and directly as I could. Before I started the survey I decided that I would “cool off” before I submit the survey just so I would be sure I was giving my honest opinion of the people appointed to lead ATF. After a few minutes I went back through the survey and tried to objectively look at my answers and make sure that everything I wrote was 100% true. Unfortunately, every initial response I had hit the nail on the head. I hope that my blunt responses cause some sort of change within the leadership of ATF, but then again, I’ve been hoping for some sort of positive change for the past three or four acting Director’s ATF has had over the majority of the past decade

What was disturbing to me was that nearly all of my co workers are either not going to respond to the survey request or not be completely forthright on the survey because they all believe the promise of remaining anonymous is like all of the other promises we hear from HQ, our RAC's, ASAC's and SAC's , not true. I compared the need to honestly complete the survey to the right to vote, but nearly every agent I’ve spoken with are fearful of retaliation for saying what should be said. I understand this concern; retaliation is very real within ATF. Please encourage all ATF employees to be honest and remember that these spineless jellyfish SAC’s and ASAC’s we have may huff and puff, but if we all remain strong and stand our ground hopefully we can keep them from blowing our house down!

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By scrolling down, you can read the email exchanges between Bill Newell and Kevin O'Reiley (who has now been deployed to Iraq). It is interesting that these documents are now coming forth. Why weren't they revealed when certain individuals testified before Congress? Could it be that they are trying to "come clean" so they don't end up wearing orange jump suits?
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With the sworn testimony of Newell he should be in orange in the near future. I mean, if a GS 13 had told BOLD face lies during sworn testimony they would be prosecuted, convicted and displayed as a poster child in the next computer based training some whiz kid in HQ came up with just to justify his LEAP pay. These wonder kids could not make it walking the walk with the men and women who have kept this agency alive in spite of the likes of "Never tell the truth" Newell and his other peers in the SES gang.

The reality is Newell gets promoted for disgracing the badge we all carry each and every day. For the most part, the people who are in leadership positions within ATF makes me want to puke.

Still waiting for a significant change. Right now, it's the same ole' book with a different cover.

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