Re: HELP!! Government employee in real bind

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Why do you assume the OP is female? And what makes you think
he/she is in any danger? The OP didn't mention any untoward
conduct or advances and had no reason to be concerned about the
supervisor until he/she went unlawfully snooping into the
records.

On 11/25/07, Tammy wrote:
> "don't wear provocative clothing to work?" That is your
> advice? You are so obviously a man.
>
> The point is she shouldn't have to worry about what she wears
> to work. She has the right to go to work and be in a safe
> working environment. It is NOT always about the law, but
> about what is morally right and unfortunately with the flaws
> in our justice system those 2 things don't always go hand in
> hand. Supporting a rapist who torchured women is wrong.
> Allowing him to work in a place where he can get personal
> information to use to prey on more women is too. I am sure
> you would agree with me if one of his victims would have been
> say..your wife, daughter...mother?
>
> This sounds like a movie in the making. Jerk people on forum
> don't help (or just can't help)and belittle poster. Rapist
> guy uses his security clerance to continue his assault on
> women and jerk people becomes victims.
>
> Fed Up, go get a lawyer and don't waste your time with these
> wanna be lawyers with worthless advice sitting around making
> themeselves feel good by tearing apart posters on this
> pointless board. You are asking from help from predators like
> the one you work with. They are just a differnt kind.
>
> On 11/22/07, Curmudgeon wrote:
>> My suggestions---Do not shower with the guy. Do not wear
>> provocative clothing to work. Do not send him flowers. And
>> next time---mind your own d*mn business. Unless he was
>> applying for benefits, you had no reason to be digging into
>> his record.
>>
>> On 11/22/07, Fed. Up wrote:
>>> I am a federal government employee and I work in the
>>> Social Security Adm. I was working in the front end,
>>> interviewing the public roughly 3 months back. A man came
>>> in and recognized my supervisor from jail. I thought
>>> nothing of it because it seemed so highly improbable. My
>>> supervisor was a polished, educated and articulate man. It
>>> just seemed too unlikely, I thought it was an obvious case
>>> of mistaken identity. So I let it pass for the moment.
>>>
>>> Most people little if any understanding about the Social
>>> Security Administration. The volume in a field office is
>>> borderline ridicules. However we not only attempt to
>>> handle everything with the highest levels of security and
>>> integrity we truly succeed. I take the security and
>>> integrity of my duties to heart and I truly believe in
>>> what I do.
>>>
>>> Let me give you a little back ground on myself. I am a
>>> college educated, ex-military, christian, spotless record
>>> employee with 5 years as a Service Representative with SSA.
>>>
>>> Part of my responsibilities at SSA include handling
>>> prisoners, payee accounting's, fraud referrals to OIG, the
>>> Office of the Inspector General and all other SSA
>>> business. I personally handle prisoners. Each recipient
>>> that gets locked up is reported to SSA by law enforcement
>>> and I research each individual prison to stop or continue
>>> benefits. The point being I know how to successfully
>>> research court cases. I also lead my office in all fraud
>>> referrals to OIG. So I take fraud and crimes against our
>>> government very seriously, maybe the most seriously of all
>>> f my duties.
>>>
>>> Sorry about the tangents but I believe them to be
>>> necessary to complete my points.
>>>
>>> I let a few weeks pass by before I kept thinking about
>>> what that guy told me about my supervisor. I thought about
>>> being swore in to uphold and carry out these duties no
>>> matter what the situation.
>>>
>>> I began to research the case. I went through our county
>>> clerk of courts site to see if I got any hits. I saw a
>>> case from 1995 regarding a voyeurism charge but I could
>>> not get to the facts due to security reasons. I went down
>>> to the courthouse on my lunch hours, over the course of
>>> days. Reading through the voyeurism case I learned of
>>> another case from 1974. the reference in teh 1995 case
>>> claimed it was a sexual crime of violence against women. I
>>> began to research that case back. Upon the completion of
>>> my research I discovered that my Supervisor at the Social
>>> Security Administration, the "Gate Keepers" of the federal
>>> government, was a convicted kidnapper, rapist and armed
>>> robber who spent 9 1/2 years in a penitentiary. He was
>>> educated in prison and received his Bachelors degree from
>>> a state university. The facts in the case described some
>>> of the most unspeakable acts of violence against women
>>> that I have ever heard of before. It was a week long spree
>>> of raping multiple women at knife point in homes and motel
>>> rooms, he then robbed them, as if their lives weren't
>>> ruined enough. He was tried and convicted in 7 out of 9
>>> counts against 5 different women. I work with the disabled
>>> and the weak in society. I see first hand how rape ruins a
>>> woman. Drug addiction, depression, panic disorders and
>>> various other psychological/emotional problems. I have
>>> family and friends who have had that horror in their
>>> lives.
>>>
>>> I went to our 2 OIG agents with my information. They were
>>> as shocked and stunned as I was over the whole thing. I
>>> printed out various facts in the cases to prove my claim.
>>> After waiting quietly for nearly 2 months, I went to them
>>> for an update on how mycase was progressing. I was told
>>> that headquarters with OIG went through the information
>>> and came back with there is little if anything that we can
>>> do. I thought that I needed to get this into other, more
>>> interested hands. I caught my Area Director in our
>>> building for a seminar and I requested that she contact me
>>> before she left. To my surprise, at the end of that day. I
>>> was asked to go back into our District Managers' office. I
>>> then proceeded to fill them in on what I knew and how I
>>> came upon the information. I was almost floored when my
>>> Disrict Manager told me that they knew all about his
>>> troubled past. I could not believe that they not only knew
>>> but hired him anyway. he has been there 6 years and was
>>> promoted a year ago. We now have a covicted serial rapist
>>> who spent 9 years in prison working in one of the most
>>> secure places in the country. He is in charge of the unit
>>> that issues Social Security numbers, money and accounting
>>> issues and Congressional cases in our office. He knows
>>> that I know and he is still my supervisor. I am working
>>> uder the most hostile conditions imaginable. I requested a
>>> transfer and was promised one by my Area Director. That
>>> fell through. I am literally stuck! it appears that he is
>>> there legally although it doesnt seem possible to me. This
>>> is just a thumb nail sketch of my predicimament. Please
>>> guide me. Does anyone know how I should contact or where I
>>> can turn? you cannot imagine how hard it is to go in to
>>> work every day. This seems like national news to me. A
>>> covicted rapist witin the management of the Social
>>> Security Adinistration. Help me please. I will consider
>>> any and all advise you may have for me. Thank you for
>>> reading my long post and I am sorry it went on so long. I
>>> just wanted you all to know how all of this transpired.
>>> Thanks again. Keep in mind that I need to get out of
>>> there. I cannot work for someone whom I will never
>>> respect. The whole thing angers and confuses me.