{"id":1855799,"date":"2023-02-21T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1855799"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:34:51","slug":"former-fbi-agents-slam-bureau-for-wasting-tax-dollars-on-wellness-room-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-agents-slam-bureau-for-wasting-tax-dollars-on-wellness-room-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI Agents Slam Bureau For Wasting Tax Dollars On \u2018Wellness Room\u2019 For Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-fbi-agents-slam-bureau-for-wasting-tax-dollars-on-wellness-room-for-employees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1855799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> Agent slammed bureau Tuesday for wasting taxpayer funds after receiving a document in the mail from an alleged Field Office Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Jersey<\/a>, which announced that a &#8220;wellness room&#8221; It includes massage recliners and lounge furniture as well as a yoga room for employees.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Friend is a former FBI agent, and is currently a senior fellow for The Center for Renewing America. He tweeted two photos from an unknown insider at Newark Field Office. They show a memo announcement by the Health &#038; Wellness Committee, and a sign that he was practicing self-care. &#8220;reminders&#8221; Outside the wellness room.<\/p>\n<p>Friend was suspended for making a whistleblower complain about the Department of Justice. He tweeted, &#8220;Friend, I&#8217;m being suspended because of this tweet. &#8220;this is not a serious law enforcement agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely see a value in activities that could build morale, but I don&#8217;t think that it should be done on the taxpayer&#8217;s time and dime,&#8221; Friend spoke to The Daily Wire. &#8220;And when you see things like massage chairs being made available to federal employees to have access to during their workday \u2014 as a taxpayer myself, I find that insulting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the document uploaded by Friend, a Newark Wellness Committee volunteer issued this memo citing its mission statement and how to increase the bureau&#8217;s so called culture of excellence to sustain current and retired employees&#8217; spiritual, physical, and mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wellness Committee seeks to encourage employees to prioritize their physical, emotional, and mental health by offering a wellness space, program, and resources,&#8221; This is what the document looks like. &#8220;The Committee will support employees in their development and maintenance of healthy and positive habits that increase their overall wellbeing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from lounge furniture and massage tables, the Wellness Room will include equipment for broadcasting wellness-related programs. Before entering the safe area, agents should take breaks and reflect on their feelings. &#8220;It&#8217;s OK to have bad and unproductive days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BONUS! You will find this sign outside. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FBI<\/a> Wellness room. This is not a serious agency for law enforcement. The FBI is a joke at best. The FBI can be considered an enemy at best. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weaponization?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Weaponization<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HFKoK5PO89\">pic.twitter.com\/HFKoK5PO89<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Friend (@RealStevefriend) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealStevefriend\/status\/1628019932754583552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emotional wellness became a prolific focus for bureau officials during the pandemic, and the program itself comes off the heels of a recent trend, Friend said, that pushes FBI employees to be &#8220;kinder, gentler,&#8221; which the former federal agent noted extends beyond the field office in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau had also reduced its physical fitness standards to bring in a broader pool of individuals who typically fail to meet those requirements, Friend said, that he had to pass before he became an agent, which took approximately four years and involved a multitude of comprehensive background checks, a polygraph examination, physical fitness test, as well as a medical physical examination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a contentious point, I know, within the rank and file that&#8217;s been raised a lot,&#8221; Friend said.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, who spent six years in the bureau working in counterterrorism and counterintelligence, was officially suspended indefinitely and without pay in June 2022 after he complained of allegedly questionable activity within the bureau and refused to comply with its COVID vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin told The Daily Wire that the wellness program emulates the &#8220;worst and weakest parts of the Woke corporate culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the work you do is honorable and rewarding, you don&#8217;t need a Wellness Room set aside to gather your thoughts,&#8221; Seraphin said. &#8220;That used to be called \u2018your lunch break.&#8217; But when you hire people whose work doesn&#8217;t actually impact the rewarding mission of law enforcement and simply exists for its own sake \u2014 perhaps they need to detox from the cognitive dissonance of \u2018federal service&#8217; being a federal jobs program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to the FBI Newark Field Office for comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former FBI agent slammed the bureau Tuesday for wasting taxpayer money after receiving a document from an alleged field office insider in New Jersey, which announced a \u201cwellness room\u201d that includes massage recliners, lounge furniture, and a yoga space for employees. 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