dear Sequoia,
The original design for federal employees was NOT because of reverse racism, i.e., ‘affirmative action’, but for the hiring of military veterans FIRST, before the average sloth off street.
It has come to the point that the innuendo so well put with brevity from ‘Blazing Saddles’ has come to be the norm. And yes, there are ‘micro regimes’ and ‘bruthas’ batcaves’, for i have seen them in action, in D.o.D., the Census bureau, and in the V.A.!!
‘BFI’? Bureau of Field Intelligence? Bureau of Finding Idiots? Bunch of F****** Ignoramuses?
I like the first one, but the others might be more true than I care to realize.
I am well aware of the point system having been affiliated with the civil service system since about 1956. I also know about quotas and changes in hiring priorities. I also know that once upon a time it was not a job for life and that there were even seasonal employees, temporaries. I guess such still exist but I’m pretty sure not like it once was.
BFI is what my late father called the FBI. It stands for whatever you want it to.