Sipsey Street Irregulars: "I've noticed that the ATF has opened up a lot of announcements for supervisory positions in the past two months." No kidding? I wonder why?

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

"I've noticed that the ATF has opened up a lot of announcements for supervisory positions in the past two months." No kidding? I wonder why?

A job seeker's question at FederalSoup.com:

Dpd2542 wrote on 18 February: "I've noticed that the ATF has opened up a lot of announcements for supervisory positions in the past two months. Does that mean that they are looking to possibly hire new agents this year?"

StefaniesDad answers: "Not sure.. but I understand that they (ATF) have had a lot of turn over of late.. A buddy of mine just got a supervisory LE (GS13) job with ATF.. Apply - you can always say no."

Dpd2542 responds with a question: "I take it that he was already a 1811 with the ATF before the promotion?"

StefaniesDad answers: "Nope - was a 0025 (GS11) (LE) with NPS (Marine Corps vet) and got selected.. good gig, huh??!!"

Dpd2542 is impressed: "Wow, that is a good gig."

Maxxxpower concurs: "Federal jobs are the best. Good benefits, good pay. You don't need to worry if the Federal Government will still be around years down the road like you would with a company."

9 comments:

aughtsix said...: Maxxxpower concurs:

"Federal jobs are the best. Good benefits, good pay. You don't need to worry if the Federal Government will still be around years down the road like you would with a company.

Oh, really????

I sense a rude awakening in your near future, Maxxx...

And why is it, again, that "companies" are going out of business?

It wouldn't be .gov meddling, .gov taxes, union avarice and sloth both public and private would it? You know, all those bennies to which you feel soooo entitled?

When your golden para fails, the landing's gonna be...

Lethal.

Jon III; March 2, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Anonymous said...: The last comment sure is interesting.; March 2, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Anonymous said...: OH I dont know about that last little bit about not worrying if the Fed will be around years down the road. This truck is East bound and Down and the bridge is out ahead. Dont get to comfortable with that GS paycheck.

Grenadier1; March 2, 2011 at 9:43 AM
oldsmobile98 said...: Haha! Thanks for posting this. Funny and sad at the same time.

Love of money: it's ruined many a man.; March 2, 2011 at 12:08 PM
DC Wright said...: olds 98... my uncle had one. Cool car!

I don't think it's actual MONEY (or love thereof) that's so much the problem as the love of the power and trappings of power that the unscrupulous accumulation of money can buy. The IDEA behind money: peaceable trading of value for value is great. The perversion of that idea by governments (fiat money, legal tender acts, devaluing "real" money, etc.) in order to gain control over folks' lives and to perpetuate themselves in power is NOT!!!; March 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Just a reminder, we are everywhere.

- III; March 2, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Couldn't pass up the opportunity to list the current wv:

slypotti

:); March 2, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Slobyskysa Rotchikokov said...: Anonymous said...
Couldn't pass up the opportunity to list the current wv:

slypotti
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Say, wasn't that Obama's nickname in Kwasifumo High back in Kenya?; March 2, 2011 at 10:55 PM
Anonymous said...: I think the main reason I'd apply for a position with the Gubbment (especially BAT-feces) is that if one wants to throw the monkey wrench, it's best done from the inside. . .

B Woodman
III-per; March 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

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"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

"I've noticed that the ATF has opened up a lot of announcements for supervisory positions in the past two months." No kidding? I wonder why?

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