glhs837
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Yep, couldn't be more govt being the problem........
Layoffs begin for tens of thousands of federal workers
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Yep, couldn't be more govt being the problem........
PeoplesElbow
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Doubt it, I would qualify for discontinued service retirement, which is actually a pretty good deal and I wouldn't be too upset about it.
tldr. Hopefully you are okay for now.
PeoplesElbow
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Basically I can retire early without penalty
That's good, I have a few years to go. I've been CSS my whole career.
CRHS89
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Was your point in posting this that she was a slacker because of wearing pajamas and saying she didn't have any meetings yet that day? Because if so, that is BS. I routinely wear pajamas/sweats while working from home and I can promise you that I am working my a** off. I am not a federal government employee but it has irked me that so many assume someone working from home isn't really working. Of course there are those that are slackers, but they are/were slackers in the office too. I am much more productive on my wfh days because there are no distractions and no people constantly coming up to my desk to chat.
Yeah I was as well .. I could vanish upstairs for an hour away from the Help Desk doing a daily walk through of the Copiers
PeoplesElbow
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I'd be fine with that too. Was planning on going part time at 55 and retire at 57. I already got what I was hoping to have in my TSP when I retired, hit that goal just before I turned 50.
PeoplesElbow
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Yep, there are some people that I swear the only thing they do is talk all day long.
Unfortunately people returning back to the office has slowed me down significantly because now instead of something that could have been an email its a 2 hour meeting.
Dude, become an Elon DOGE-Bro. Get in on the getting gone.
BOP
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If I had to guess, and it's just a guess, based on the number of women I've seen, it's about job security. Well, it was for me as well, but I also had all the tools I'd had as a blue collar auto mechanic, so if the job didn't work out with the government, I had an entire career's worth of experience and knowledge, as well as the tools, to go back into that industry. As much as I hated that business, well, sometimes sh*t happens and you gotta do what you gotta do.
I mean, if worst came to worst, I have experience working in restaurants - as a bus boy, as a cook, as a dishwasher. I hated that work even worse than I did automotive, and as mediocre as my income as a mechanic was, being a cook was a whole lot worse.
The point is: I've always worked. I've done jobs that really sucked, and paid really poorly - there's a correlation in there as well. Temporary agencies, rent-a-wino, driving trucks (haven't had a CDL in decades, though), you name it, I've probably done it, just to get by.
Back to guessing: I'd bet folding money that the people who got the ax don't have that kind of experience or knowledge to fall back on. Yeah, getting the boot blows. Been there, done that. Survived 6 rounds of lay-offs at McDonnell-Douglas aircraft (now Boeing) out in Tulsa before my turn came. That's when I went into automotive. Lost my home in Tulsa; lost my new pickup; arrived in Los Angeles with a $100.00 in my pocket and the address and phone number of an old shipmate who was a house painter. He put me up, put me to work until he started having marital problems, which is when I went out on my own, with a more experienced partner.
I regularly call myself lazy, unmotivated, and a huge procrastinator - not to mention an alcoholic - but I've always done what I had to do (legally) to get by.
Maybe some of these people will learn that, but that's a hard lesson if you have no basis in hardship.
BOP
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That sounds sus, to say the least. I had a 3 year probationary period, and was promoted 2 grades after that, retiring as a 13. Maybe I'm not thinking clearly on account of being tired, but I'm not seeing how a promotion comes with a probationary period.
BOP
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Hope is not a plan; I don't give a damn how Obama coached it.
PeoplesElbow
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OccamsRazor
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One of my neighbors told me that there is a slight problem with the "probationary layoffs" that may be coming. That problem is misidentification. Apparently, there are multiple employees that have surpassed their probationary period BUT, the 'work-from-home HR people failed to properly document their status change in their databases. So, if a list is pulled from said databases, multiple employees could be released even though they are NOT probationary employees anymore.
Lawsuits??
Lawsuits??
BOP
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Well, seeing as I can't hardly manage myself, I was in no danger of being promoted to supervisor.
Thanks.
PeoplesElbow
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They will probably just unfire them, temporarily that is.
BOP
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What. ever.That was Hope and Change.