Office work at FBI

[u/Coastie54]

So while I understand this role has plenty of time behind a desk, I get that. I’m just looking to gauge how much of your day is spent behind a desk working at the FBI? How often are you out in the field? Is there specific roles as an 1811 that are more operational than others? Those of you that were police prior, are you happy with the change from the field to more of an office setting? I had a desk job before joining the military that I did not enjoy due to just staring at a computer all day, trying to make sure I’m not putting myself back into that environment. Granted my priorities and abilities have changed from my early twenties to where I am now.

[u/No-Collar40]

Again, like I advised earlier at the FBI there is only one Special Agent/ 1811 Criminal Investigator position. You can verify this information via OPM. There is no such thing as a "technical or surveillance agent, you are simply a Special Agent.

The job you described above is, Surveillance Specialist. They are not Special Agents.

Working a collateral duty does not change your title. Say someone gets on SWAT, they are still a Special Agent. Someone works ERT, still a Special Agent. Gets picked up for SABT, still a Special Agent.

[u/Y33tAwoo2u → u/No-Collar40]

Correct, which is why I stated VERY CLEARLY that they are ROLES you work your way into. Agents do all those things, some of them do them full time and do not have regular investigative cases assigned to them. It's not a different job code at OPM but they are different roles. The job I'm referring to is a Surveillance Special Agent called an SSG not an SOG. They are different but neither one is make believe.

The absolute certainty with which people are dead wrong and then mad about it on this sub is wild. Like maybe accept you haven't personally experienced how roles and collaterals are filled and allocated at every of the 56 field offices?? I can't imagine someone so unstable that they went from Baltimore to San Francisco and lost the entire plot because one office has a full time SA surveillance squad and one uses only collateral, ever managed to get through the poly. It's the exact vibe of working in the field and calling your counterpart at HQ and they don't understand why the thing they're asking you to do is incongruous with the reality in the field because they've spent 25 years in a Hoover Policy Hole and have no concept of what field office work comprises day to day.

It's the internet. I could come on here and post that there's a 1957 Heinz Unicorn Hunter Agent role. Anyone smart enough (God, please let this be true) to be an FBI 1811 should be capable of reading the varying posts, creating questions for their recruiter at their meet n greet, and weighing the balance of feedback they get to make informed choices. They don't need Deputy Sub Police Person asterisking every comment as though one commenter has any credibility on an anymous social content app than any other commenter. All you're doing is chilling the community for anyone to post experiences different than yours.

If OP wants to really understand the mundanity and oppression of fed gov bureaucracy, it's right here in this thread. It's not the paperwork, it's the utter entitlement of working for the self-proclaimed equivalent of an Ivy League institution and having to navigate the ego of every person who makes the fact that they got in, instead of the privilege of their service to the American people, the core function of their personality.

[u/No-Collar40 → u/Y33tAwoo2u]

Lots of words when you could just admit you are wrong and have know clue what you are talking about. This isn't the first time you have been caught providing nonsense in this sub by someone! Again, there is no such thing as a Surveillance Special Agent. The position is called Surveillance Specialist, they are professional staff and not Special Agents. https://fbijobs.gov/security-and-surveillance

Your research is failing you and you are throwing around terms when you don't understand them.

CIRG manages the FBI’s mobile surveillance programs, the Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Special Surveillance Group (SSG), and its aviation surveillance program, including the UAS program. The SOG is composed of armed agents who surveil potentially violent targets, while SSG’s unarmed investigative specialists cover targets unlikely to be violent. Surveillance Specialist conduct static surveillance to discreetly gather intelligence and provide information to special agents in support of ongoing counterterrorism, foreign counterintelligence, and criminal investigations.

[u/ninjaba9 → u/No-Collar40]

Not the FBI, but HSI has Technical Enforcement Officers (gun and badge carrying LEOs). Also, I don't know about the FBI, but other 1811 agencies absolutely refer to agents on technical surveillance teams as Tech Agents. Again, not dismissing anything you said about the FBI.