FBI Nomenclature
"Beach Time" = Slang for the period of time a Special Agent is suspended from duty.
"Betty Bureau" = A member of the female support staff who has worked for the Bureau for her whole life and is "married to the Bureau" is called a "Betty Bureau".
"Balloon/Ballooning" = Inflating hours worked. Agent leaves Field Office at 1:00pm and goes home or to the local tavern, but is officially "signed out" at 5:00pm.
"Breast-Fed" = Female Special Agent. Derisive.
"Brick Agent" = A street agent or working agent.
"Bu-car" = Bureau car
"Bu-bird" = Bureau Aircraft.
"Bu-name" = Bureau name. No two agents may have the same name so one might have to use his/her middle name. This is the Buname.
"Clagent" = A clerk who later was trained as an agent. Derisive.
"Creds" = F.B. I. credentials (I.D.).
"Four-Bagger" = Special Agents only get one of these. It consists of Suspension, Censure, Transfer and Probation.
"First Office Agent" = An agent on his/her first tour of duty. A "newbie".
"HBO" = High Bureau Official.
"K.M.A. Agent" = Veteran Agent able to tell hierarchy to "kiss my ass" as he/she is fully vested with a 75% retirement.
"Ninja" = Entry Team Members, usually dressed in black fatigues.
"No-Hoper" = A First Office Agent counting on a preferred duty assignment. AKA: Dolt, Fool, Dullard.
"Rent-A-Goon" = Agents transferred to a particular Field Office to perform a particular task.
"Roast Beef" = References a new F.B.I. Special Agent who thought agents were given a special discount in a local New York deli. When his sandwich arrived, he complained by saying "I'm F.B.I.... more roast beef." Apparently, this story is known across the entire country, and agents who are dissatisfied with something will say "more roast beef", and agents telling their boss how they showed their credentials to someone will say "I roast beefed him".
"Skirt" = Female Special Agent. Derisive.
"Split-Tail" = Female Special Agent. Derisive.
"T.B." = The Bureau
"Too Hard Box" = Time consuming cases/issues. Refers to an imaginary location between the Special Agents "In-Box" and "Out-Box".
"U.A.C.B." = Unless Advised to the Contrary by the Bureau. An order from T.B. (The Bureau) HQ.
"Beach Time" = Slang for the period of time a Special Agent is suspended from duty.
"Betty Bureau" = A member of the female support staff who has worked for the Bureau for her whole life and is "married to the Bureau" is called a "Betty Bureau".
"Balloon/Ballooning" = Inflating hours worked. Agent leaves Field Office at 1:00pm and goes home or to the local tavern, but is officially "signed out" at 5:00pm.
"Breast-Fed" = Female Special Agent. Derisive.
"Brick Agent" = A street agent or working agent.
"Bu-car" = Bureau car
"Bu-bird" = Bureau Aircraft.
"Bu-name" = Bureau name. No two agents may have the same name so one might have to use his/her middle name. This is the Buname.
"Clagent" = A clerk who later was trained as an agent. Derisive.
"Creds" = F.B. I. credentials (I.D.).
"Four-Bagger" = Special Agents only get one of these. It consists of Suspension, Censure, Transfer and Probation.
"First Office Agent" = An agent on his/her first tour of duty. A "newbie".
"HBO" = High Bureau Official.
"K.M.A. Agent" = Veteran Agent able to tell hierarchy to "kiss my ass" as he/she is fully vested with a 75% retirement.
"Ninja" = Entry Team Members, usually dressed in black fatigues.
"No-Hoper" = A First Office Agent counting on a preferred duty assignment. AKA: Dolt, Fool, Dullard.
"Rent-A-Goon" = Agents transferred to a particular Field Office to perform a particular task.
"Roast Beef" = References a new F.B.I. Special Agent who thought agents were given a special discount in a local New York deli. When his sandwich arrived, he complained by saying "I'm F.B.I.... more roast beef." Apparently, this story is known across the entire country, and agents who are dissatisfied with something will say "more roast beef", and agents telling their boss how they showed their credentials to someone will say "I roast beefed him".
"Skirt" = Female Special Agent. Derisive.
"Split-Tail" = Female Special Agent. Derisive.
"T.B." = The Bureau
"Too Hard Box" = Time consuming cases/issues. Refers to an imaginary location between the Special Agents "In-Box" and "Out-Box".
"U.A.C.B." = Unless Advised to the Contrary by the Bureau. An order from T.B. (The Bureau) HQ.
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