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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked there in the late 90s on H Street and had a really positive experience but that was super long ago (I am old). I’m stunned to read about this. How horrible![/quote]

Tbh, these are edge cases from the field offices, not HQ. A segment of people (mostly men) on the road 100+ days per year and living in hotels for weeks on end are going to do dumb, shady, unprofessional things. I’ve heard similar stories from women in white collar professions across a variety of industries where there was heavy work travel. The government is not immune to men behaving badly.

FDIC is probably the most buttoned-up and culturally conservative of the FIRREA agencies. If anything, the controversy here is that there was some sort of comms breakdown between field office HR and HQ HR when it came to investigating and punishing personnel misconduct. I tend to say “the buck stops here” and pin the blame on HQ HR if there was ambiguity, but they will need to let the investigation play out.

Federal agencies’ HR are very incentivized to just shuffle people around if there was alleged personnel misconduct, but no clear breaking of the law. Agencies don’t want the bad press or a paper trail. Agencies don’t want to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney costs in mounting a defense on appeal by the employee. The employee doesnt want a public record following them around. [/quote]

The FDIC is independent - can't it just say that that type of behavior is unbecoming of an employee?  It's doesn't have to be illegal - just against FDIC rules.[/quote]

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