Realignment for SEC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is an ME?? Btw, I’ve worked in government for 2 decades and never heard the term. Is this inside baseball admin HR jargon slop?

When HR, IT, and other support groups can’t do their jobs well, divisions and offices create a shadow group to perform those functions inside their organizations. They create a Managing Executive. Think of a glorified overpaid business manager. Then, because of the need to support a Senior Officer in accordance with the staff-manager ratio, these shadow offices are staffed with dozens of people who perform the same functions the main groups should. And by and large they don’t do their jobs well anyway. And at an agency on its own pay scale, these shadow office staff gets paid just as much as the subject matter experts in market and securities regulation. So, a business manager regurgitating news and sending multiple “validate your time” emails makes as much as someone who understands the intricacies of the ‘40 Act.
Over the years these ME offices have grown with so much fluff that they become impossible to ignore.

Sounds like Freddie Mac’s “Centers of Excellence”!!!

Doomed to fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And then that person's getting paid the same salary for expertise that's about to be a $20/month add-on.

What does this mean?

Artificial Intelligence is going to eat their jobs is the claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And then that person's getting paid the same salary for expertise that's about to be a $20/month add-on.

government doesn't pay teaser rates. that'll be $30/seat/month for each class of things folks might need.

microsoft has 80 things named copilot, they'll all be billed separately and do a crappy job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get it. You think ME offices suck and are a waste of time. Message received, loudly and repeatedly.

But a lot of us in these offices are parents in this city and we read this forum too. Accountability is fair and we welcome it. There are efficiencies to find in every office, including everyone else's in this chat. But at some point relentless dismissal of entire teams isn't accountability, it's just punching at people (anonymously). The truth is there's a lot going on across ME offices that most people never see.

Now can we please get back to asking questions or spreading rumors that could easily be answered or dispelled by doing a quick search of the Exchange or AskHR.

Don't waste your breath. The complaints about ME office and staff is obvious dog whistle by an individual lashing out at staff providing support to the mission but not necessarily executing the mission.

You can't appease to these types because they do not have the cognitive ability to analyze complex issues of organizational management, program prioritization, local access to support staff knowledgeable on matters specific to their division and office, and other factors that matter in an organization as large as the SEC.

Ha! Or maybe it’s just common sense that the functions were performed just as well if not better only a few years ago with a quarter of the people and no ME as a senior officer position.

But keep those time sheet and leave buyback emails coming. Need to keep people busy handling “complex issues of organizational management.”

[Anonymous]

There used to be a few competent people in those ME roles who were truly skilled executives who could free up the directors and truly advocate behind the scenes for their divisions and offices — but not so much anymore. As those people left, there was a definite shift to hiring MEs who were more or less business managers, many of them came from other government agencies and have no experience at another financial regulatory agency. The change has been noticeable to anyone who has been working in the building for the last decade or more. With the shift, the concentration of resources to smaller issues like getting your time card validated and repeating stuff already published in SEC Today has increased. If posters are being critical of the ME offices, this is one reason why — IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get it. You think ME offices suck and are a waste of time. Message received, loudly and repeatedly.

But a lot of us in these offices are parents in this city and we read this forum too. Accountability is fair and we welcome it. There are efficiencies to find in every office, including everyone else's in this chat. But at some point relentless dismissal of entire teams isn't accountability, it's just punching at people (anonymously). The truth is there's a lot going on across ME offices that most people never see.

Now can we please get back to asking questions or spreading rumors that could easily be answered or dispelled by doing a quick search of the Exchange or AskHR.

Don't waste your breath. The complaints about ME office and staff is obvious dog whistle by an individual lashing out at staff providing support to the mission but not necessarily executing the mission.

You can't appease to these types because they do not have the cognitive ability to analyze complex issues of organizational management, program prioritization, local access to support staff knowledgeable on matters specific to their division and office, and other factors that matter in an organization as large as the SEC.

Ha! Or maybe it’s just common sense that the functions were performed just as well if not better only a few years ago with a quarter of the people and no ME as a senior officer position.

But keep those time sheet and leave buyback emails coming. Need to keep people busy handling “complex issues of organizational management.”

What “complex organizational issues” are the supporters of these admins talking about? And I agree with another poster who said there used to be MEs who were competent. Not anymore. Like that person said, especially the last ENF ME and the current exams ME who came from other agencies - completely incompetent.

Reduce the glut. Merge these ME offices back into OSO and OHR. Leave one business manager per division. An SK14, no higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get it. You think ME offices suck and are a waste of time. Message received, loudly and repeatedly.

But a lot of us in these offices are parents in this city and we read this forum too. Accountability is fair and we welcome it. There are efficiencies to find in every office, including everyone else's in this chat. But at some point relentless dismissal of entire teams isn't accountability, it's just punching at people (anonymously). The truth is there's a lot going on across ME offices that most people never see.

Now can we please get back to asking questions or spreading rumors that could easily be answered or dispelled by doing a quick search of the Exchange or AskHR.

Don't waste your breath. The complaints about ME office and staff is obvious dog whistle by an individual lashing out at staff providing support to the mission but not necessarily executing the mission.

You can't appease to these types because they do not have the cognitive ability to analyze complex issues of organizational management, program prioritization, local access to support staff knowledgeable on matters specific to their division and office, and other factors that matter in an organization as large as the SEC.

Ha! Or maybe it’s just common sense that the functions were performed just as well if not better only a few years ago with a quarter of the people and no ME as a senior officer position.

But keep those time sheet and leave buyback emails coming. Need to keep people busy handling “complex issues of organizational management.”

What “complex organizational issues” are the supporters of these admins talking about? And I agree with another poster who said there used to be MEs who were competent. Not anymore. Like that person said, especially the last ENF ME and the current exams ME who came from other agencies - completely incompetent.

Reduce the glut. Merge these ME offices back into OSO and OHR. Leave one business manager per division. An SK14, no higher.

Exactly! And from the stories out there, it sounds like competent as a hiring qualification has been replaced with vindictive for some of these MEs.

[Anonymous]

Is the current ME a new position for ENF? Was there no ME before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the current ME a new position for ENF? Was there no ME before?

ENF was the first division to get an ME. But the one before the current one was really so subpar, that she had to be moved to OCR. I don’t know how the exams ME is still there. I can guess though. Same with CF, DERA, IM. No wonder the chairman thinks we are all overpaid if he sees these admins all over.

[Anonymous]

Nothing says 'I'm essential and not at all overpaid" like anonymous ranting on a parenting forum all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the current ME a new position for ENF? Was there no ME before?

ENF was the first division to get an ME. But the one before the current one was really so subpar, that she had to be moved to OCR. I don’t know how the exams ME is still there. I can guess though. Same with CF, DERA, IM. No wonder the chairman thinks we are all overpaid if he sees these admins all over.

The IM ME office used to append a DEI motto at the end of their email signatures. They had to remove it after the EOs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the current ME a new position for ENF? Was there no ME before?

ENF was the first division to get an ME. But the one before the current one was really so subpar, that she had to be moved to OCR. I don’t know how the exams ME is still there. I can guess though. Same with CF, DERA, IM. No wonder the chairman thinks we are all overpaid if he sees these admins all over.

The IM ME office used to append a DEI motto at the end of their email signatures. They had to remove it after the EOs.

Emails signature may be gone but her biases are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the current ME a new position for ENF? Was there no ME before?

ENF was the first division to get an ME. But the one before the current one was really so subpar, that she had to be moved to OCR. I don’t know how the exams ME is still there. I can guess though. Same with CF, DERA, IM. No wonder the chairman thinks we are all overpaid if he sees these admins all over.

The IM ME office used to append a DEI motto at the end of their email signatures. They had to remove it after the EOs.

Emails signature may be gone but her biases are not.

No doubt!