It’s the bronze medal that just won’t go away.
I naively thought back in November 2009 that perhaps I could nudge the SEC into removing the reference in its job ads that the agency was “RANKED THIRD BEST FEDERAL WORKPLACE FOR 2007!” (capital letters, bold face and exclamation point in original). I even followed up by threatening promising to create and distribute tee shirts “commemorating” this momentous, three-year-old honor. Yet it lives on even today.
Full details are available in this post on my Enforcement Action blog over at Compliance Week.