FBI HQ in PG!

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Anonymous wrote:How is it possible none of you get it?

The FBI Director already said no to this. The selection process was corrupt.

The HQ is going to be in VA.

How is it possible none of you get it?

My sister's husband's brother said no to this. The election process was corrupt.

The HQ is going to be in VA.

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I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

most fib support staff live in md

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

Asking employees to devote an extra 5 hours per week to work is not insignificant.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

Asking employees to devote an extra 5 hours per week to work is not insignificant.

Conversely, other employees will have shorter trips to work.

Some posters on DCUM seem oddly convinced that it's impossible for any reasonable person to live in Prince George's County.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

Asking employees to devote an extra 5 hours per week to work is not insignificant.

Conversely, other employees will have shorter trips to work.

Some posters on DCUM seem oddly convinced that it's impossible for any reasonable person to live in Prince George's County.

But those are black people, silly, they don’t count.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

Asking employees to devote an extra 5 hours per week to work is not insignificant.

Conversely, other employees will have shorter trips to work.

Some posters on DCUM seem oddly convinced that it's impossible for any reasonable person to live in Prince George's County.

But those are black people, silly, they don’t count.

Exactly. I mean, the only FBI staff that matter are the ones who live in VA, right? God forbid that the Marylanders would have a shorter commute.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

Asking employees to devote an extra 5 hours per week to work is not insignificant.

Conversely, other employees will have shorter trips to work.

Some posters on DCUM seem oddly convinced that it's impossible for any reasonable person to live in Prince George's County.

Of course some will have shorter commutes. I don’t know where most FBI employees live but surveying them would provide that data.

[Anonymous]

I'm an AA at FBI. I'm Black. And I live in PG.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly shocked they didn’t poll current workers. My agency had an HQ move about 10 years ago and they polled us. We have a lot of hard to fill STEM positions and they like to keep us happy. We all said VA and that’s where we went.

BIL works for FBI. He has lots of reasons to stay in Virginia- MDs gun laws, the other agencies he works with, his house, his wife’s job. All of his coworkers live in Virginia. A few single ones lived in DC. Considering most can’t telework it’s going to be long commutes for all and MD blocks the bridge expansions.

I'm honestly shocked that you think this would be a relevant factor in the decision about location.

I guess your brother-in-law will have to decide which he dislikes more, Maryland's gun laws or a long commute by car.

Why wouldn’t this be a relevant factor? Most employers would try to avoid losing good employees.

The HQ is moving from DC all the way to ... Greenbelt. 30 minutes by Metro.

Asking employees to devote an extra 5 hours per week to work is not insignificant.

Conversely, other employees will have shorter trips to work.

Some posters on DCUM seem oddly convinced that it's impossible for any reasonable person to live in Prince George's County.

Of course some will have shorter commutes. I don’t know where most FBI employees live but surveying them would provide that data.

You don't have to waste time with a survey that might have a low response rate. All the data is in HR records and they likely pulled that and knew/know the impact of the move to staff before making a decision.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is it possible none of you get it?

The FBI Director already said no to this. The selection process was corrupt.

The HQ is going to be in VA.

How is is possible that you don't get it. The FBI director has zero say in this decision. The GSA has the final say and they have said it and they have doubled down by having the administrator of the GSA proclaim that the decision was discussed, decided and concurred.

None of the entities appealed to, including the Virginia Congressmen (including Senators) have any say in this. While Congress could reconsider this, they are not going to. The Maryland House members are higher ranking and concur with the decision. The Senate does not have particular interest in either direction to make a change.

The IG office could intervene, but not only is there no proof that there was anything "shady" as has been suggested, there is ample evidence that the process was followed and was legitimate. The panel only gives a recommendation. The long report acknowledged that the panel recommendation favored Springfield and they cited alternative reasons including probably the two most convincing, that Springfield was too expensive and that Springfield would take too long to develop. Both the woman who made the final call, and her boss, the administrator of the GSA concurred that these were more pressing reasons than the ones that the panel cited. So they decided not to follow the recommendations of the panel. This is the way the process works. There is no reason for the IG to intervene in this decision.

No one is going to change the GSA ruling. It's just a matter of how long this delays proceeding with the decision.

The IG investigation will include a review of inappropriate political influence as alleged by Senator Kaine, who is a serious individual. The "rank" of the House members would not matter if the decision was made on the merits based on the criteria set forth in advance. Sen. Cardin also admitted that he knew that MD was going to win all along. The IG is independent and will have a duty to look at these issues and follow the facts wherever they may lead.

It is also worth noting that someone from GSA signed off on the panel's recommendation to award to Springfield. Why were they overruled?

And it should not be forgotten that the FBI far outranks GSA in the hierarchy of Government. The FBI is much more important as an agency and its stated needs should take priority.

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And it should not be forgotten that the FBI far outranks GSA in the hierarchy of Government. The FBI is much more important as an agency and its stated needs should take priority.

lol