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Anonymous wrote:It has come to light that several SEC and employees at Levels 14 and 15, are demonstrating a significant lack of engagement during working hours. Multiple individuals have been observed on their phones with their feet on their desks rather than attending to their duties. We need to address these accountability gaps and ensure all staff are actively contributing to daily operations.

They are in the office! What else do you want from them? That’s the measure of productivity for PA: butts in the seats in the office, and not teleworking! They are on their phones very by very important America 250 messages by our glorious Chairman, while their laptops are rebooting because OIT pushed some stuff that needed continuous restart in the middle of the day. That’s attending to their duties!

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Anonymous wrote:It has come to light that several SEC and employees at Levels 14 and 15, are demonstrating a significant lack of engagement during working hours. Multiple individuals have been observed on their phones with their feet on their desks rather than attending to their duties. We need to address these accountability gaps and ensure all staff are actively contributing to daily operations.

lol, okay. Go ahead and fire them?

Anonymous wrote:It has come to light that several SEC and employees at Levels 14 and 15, are demonstrating a significant lack of engagement during working hours. Multiple individuals have been observed on their phones with their feet on their desks rather than attending to their duties. We need to address these accountability gaps and ensure all staff are actively contributing to daily operations.

Anonymous wrote:It has come to light that several SEC and employees at Levels 14 and 15, are demonstrating a significant lack of engagement during working hours. Multiple individuals have been observed on their phones with their feet on their desks rather than attending to their duties. We need to address these accountability gaps and ensure all staff are actively contributing to daily operations.

Anonymous wrote:It has come to light that several SEC and employees at Levels 14 and 15, are demonstrating a significant lack of engagement during working hours. Multiple individuals have been observed on their phones with their feet on their desks rather than attending to their duties. We need to address these accountability gaps and ensure all staff are actively contributing to daily operations.

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Anonymous wrote:Well whatever they are doing its working. Folks are leaving the SEC in droves.

It’s the people you don’t want to leave who are leaving. The dead weight is staying, including lots of managers and even directors who should have been shown the door.

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Anonymous wrote:Well whatever they are doing its working. Folks are leaving the SEC in droves.

It’s the people you don’t want to leave who are leaving. The dead weight is staying, including lots of managers and even directors who should have been shown the door.

Anonymous wrote:Well whatever they are doing its working. Folks are leaving the SEC in droves.

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Anonymous wrote:At this point having worthless ME offices is the least of the problems. I feel like I’m watching a train wreck in slow motion. But it is like a dream. I’m trying to scream for someone to see it but no sound will come out.

It is not in slow motion anymore. It is off the cliff. The once great SEC has been reduced to rubble.

As for the ME discussion, as well as any other non-mission function, I don’t know why they are the size they are, and why they are paid on the SK scale. Is being a business manager or an HR person at SEC any different than the SSA?

It takes a staff of a few dozen people to send out the same time sheet reminder every couple of weeks, maintain a fairly user-unfriendly intranet site, decorate for holiday parties and other social events, etc.

All of these admin folks, it feels like a depression era Work Progress Administration. OMEs were created to provide numerous jobs to those who would never get a job somewhere else. And these people are also on the SK scale. You have a markets expert in a highly sophisticated area paid the same sometimes less than the person who sends out timesheet reminders and reposts SEC today articles. No wonder PA thinks we are overpaid. We have hundreds of people employed who don’t do any mission work.

OMEs should be abolished.

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Anonymous wrote:At this point having worthless ME offices is the least of the problems. I feel like I’m watching a train wreck in slow motion. But it is like a dream. I’m trying to scream for someone to see it but no sound will come out.

It is not in slow motion anymore. It is off the cliff. The once great SEC has been reduced to rubble.

As for the ME discussion, as well as any other non-mission function, I don’t know why they are the size they are, and why they are paid on the SK scale. Is being a business manager or an HR person at SEC any different than the SSA?

It takes a staff of a few dozen people to send out the same time sheet reminder every couple of weeks, maintain a fairly user-unfriendly intranet site, decorate for holiday parties and other social events, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:At this point having worthless ME offices is the least of the problems. I feel like I’m watching a train wreck in slow motion. But it is like a dream. I’m trying to scream for someone to see it but no sound will come out.

It is not in slow motion anymore. It is off the cliff. The once great SEC has been reduced to rubble.

As for the ME discussion, as well as any other non-mission function, I don’t know why they are the size they are, and why they are paid on the SK scale. Is being a business manager or an HR person at SEC any different than the SSA?

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Anonymous wrote:Agree 2x/week would make a huge difference. Even 1x/week and a more liberal ad hoc policy.

Personally, 5x/week would be a touch less exhausting if we still had an on site gym. I'm guessing I'm in the minority on this but that little thing would make a world of difference for me.

I agree. With the gym, I could use my lunch to get in a workout. It still sucks to have the commute time but it didn’t preclude getting exercise. Now it’s hard to fit that in after or before the commute given kid obligations.

+1, the gym would help a lot.

Heard they were looking into it but we are losing floors in SP2 to the CFTC. With that loss of space and people all being doubled up, off the table.

Wait, what????

The CFTC, or parts of the CFTC, are coming the Station Place?

How is that going to work?

How do you think? Everyone doubled up.


Anyone terrified about what we are missing in the markets and with investors between the loss of staff and demoralization of who is left? The next big crisis has gotten closer because of all this. When they write the report, what PA did kissing up to Trump instead of focusing on the agency and his utter disregard of staff will be in the “why did the SEC miss it” chapter.

Supposedly we are going to be hiring a bunch of people too in the next few months. VERA and Fork last year, hiring more people this year.

Lots of hiring these days, and sneaky ways of doing it like using a single posting for multiple positions.

Doubt telework is coming back any time soon.

For the most coveted positions this is more than sneaky. Watch the cronyism grow. Especially with so many internal positions, especially in Enforcement, are open to that division only. I wonder why!
I have also seen some people stealthily promoted without any competition. Sneaky it all is.

you think that's sneaky? an internal 17 position was advertised to be open for two weeks and was closed the same day. now "reviewing applications".

There was one job that was open for just an hour or so at 8am. Then straight to “reviewing applications.” They may have reposted in when they got caught.

But this happens more than you think. Cronies get promoted, while others get fired for coming in 15 minutes “late.” There is a targeted retaliation going on across multiple regional offices and DC.

C’mon. Are people really getting fired for coming in 15 minutes late. I have not heard of this but would welcome other insights.

They certainly use it if they are looking to get rid of you.

100%. It’s the easiest path. They pull all the info from a year plus and then add up every 5 minute to come up with “over the last year the total time inappropriately billed is 40 hours. Your manager recommended separation.”

That’s how they retaliate. Oldest trick in the book.

+1. That is why the “you don’t have to take your lunch break” poster is such an idiot.

There is a very easy way to avoid this. Work the time you are supposed to work.