Yep. I told some people I was cool with that they can take it but once October hits you SOL if you don’t have something else lined up.
Federal Employees, how ya'll feeling?
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I remember when the said it was a one time offer. Now it's up to round three. My agency is getting to a point we can't do our jobs because there is no one to support us getting our work done. It's become a joke. I doubt abrif will happen, but I would have seniority. I just want a good retirement deal.
Im a contractor but my agency fired a ton of govt staff. In our office of about 30 people, we lost 6. In addition to about 5 older folk who retired in the weeks before. Other offices it was as many as half their staff got RIF’d
We had weekly pop up meetings for a few months. Literally just to tell us ‘We dont know anything…this what we’re hearing but…’. But the last few meetings got more ominous, then the meeting the day before the RIF’s our director started crying for the first time. That’s when we knew it’s some people getting cut.
Sure enough the next day everyone is in office and 1 by 1 you hear a buzz ‘so n so got it’ then a steam of people come down my aisle hugging and crying folk. Mind you that morning they had some drinks (alcohol) and donuts out in the conference room folk was gettin lit just to deal with it and I understood. The most bizarre sad surreal shyt I’ve ever witnessed at a job
My advice to anyone is **apply for jobs as if you are next**. if you’re a contractor, assume your shyt won’t get renewed. If you’re govt, look to the most apolitical safe agencies possible (DOD, DOJ). Bc even if folk weren’t RIF’d I’ve heard they’re downgrading folk, a 13 was moved to a 9.
We had weekly pop up meetings for a few months. Literally just to tell us ‘We dont know anything…this what we’re hearing but…’. But the last few meetings got more ominous, then the meeting the day before the RIF’s our director started crying for the first time. That’s when we knew it’s some people getting cut.
Sure enough the next day everyone is in office and 1 by 1 you hear a buzz ‘so n so got it’ then a steam of people come down my aisle hugging and crying folk. Mind you that morning they had some drinks (alcohol) and donuts out in the conference room folk was gettin lit just to deal with it and I understood. The most bizarre sad surreal shyt I’ve ever witnessed at a job
My advice to anyone is **apply for jobs as if you are next**. if you’re a contractor, assume your shyt won’t get renewed. If you’re govt, look to the most apolitical safe agencies possible (DOD, DOJ). Bc even if folk weren’t RIF’d I’ve heard they’re downgrading folk, a 13 was moved to a 9.
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Laidbackman
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A 13 was moved down to a 9? Maybe that's not as bad as a RIF, but it's still a tough one, especially if you're single and paying a mortgage, or if you have children, etc... Even going from a 13 to a 12 is enough to send somebody into foreclosure. With the DMV having the most federal jobs, I'm not sure if I'm even coming up there this summer, for my usually one or two week vacation to see family. I already noticed an increase in tension during my last visit, seeing healthy brothers in their 40's and early 50's, panhandling outside the most upscale shopping strips in PG...but wearing designer jackets. I could sense a little attitude with some of them, when I told them I didn't have it. Took me back to the late 80's and early 90's, except they weren't wearing designer jackets while doing this, and they weren't doing it in nice areas.
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A 13 being moved down to a 9 is crazy
Yea it was a lot of rumor and ‘I heard’ type stuff that say especially but yea that’s what they said.
Not sure how prevalent that is but overall it’s just some wild stuff going on , especially if you’re in a political or political adjacent agency.
The God Poster
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I was under the impression you retained your old grade. For at least a year, no?A 13 being moved down to a 9 is crazy
Either way that’s a big ass drop. I’d hope they’d give a year to move around to another agency or position
Laidbackman
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A little off topic, but a glamour of hope. I had this racist professor teaching my first graduate class back in 96', which was an IT course. This was after hip-hop had made its mark, and produced big names like Ice Cube, Ice T, etc..., and after drugs had flooded our communities in the mid 80's, and they had named that generation, "Generation X". It meant they were crossed out like an "X", and practically marked for death, and were thought to soon join Malcolm X. And the only type girls checking for them were hoes and hoodrats. Believe me, most young White people in this age group wanted no parts of Generation X. For some of you, these were probably your older siblings.
On that first day in grad school, that racist nutty professor kept saying, "Nature Always Finds a Void". What this had to do with IT, I don't know. But he had said this repeatedly throughout the course. I was one of only three Blacks in this class, and one of them was biracial. This professor probably thought Black people anywhere close to Gen X, like I was, would be extinct by now, before he'd wound up teaching any of them in grad school. To me, "Nature Always Finds a Void" meant, no matter what society threw at us, we will always find an opening, and pull through it, even with the possibility of making big money, and no White man can stop us. Generation X should have proved that. Any Black generation can pull through anything, as long as they don't do anything stupid.
As some of you know, Project 2025 already happened to me back in 2006 after a PIP, at the hands of another racist, after I had worked with a bunch of 13s and 14s. In her eyes, the only thing I did wrong was stand up for what's right. I had to survive the lost of that job all alone, after everybody pretty much thought I was through, except the very few that were close to me in my family. As far as the last day on that job, which came outta nowhere, nobody really cared what was about to happen to me, and this included Black people. So there was no director crying, or a stream of people coming down an aisle hugging and weeping.
FF to today, only 20 percent of FERS retirees have a retirement income higher than mine, basically because my retirement years continued to accumulate after 2006. And if I had all those internet side hustles in 2006, like they have today, it wouldn't be funny
But at some point in time, once you lived long enough to survive on, and can still have a little fun, it's not as much about money as you think, and you don't need a whole lot of it.
Edit: Anybody thinking to themselves, "What that White professor said wasn't racist", remember, this was just the first day. A racist prank he played on the last day of class, using his 14 year-old son to pull it off, was so messed up that I reported him. Wow, the things that go on at some of these PWIs that people don't hear about.
On that first day in grad school, that racist nutty professor kept saying, "Nature Always Finds a Void". What this had to do with IT, I don't know. But he had said this repeatedly throughout the course. I was one of only three Blacks in this class, and one of them was biracial. This professor probably thought Black people anywhere close to Gen X, like I was, would be extinct by now, before he'd wound up teaching any of them in grad school. To me, "Nature Always Finds a Void" meant, no matter what society threw at us, we will always find an opening, and pull through it, even with the possibility of making big money, and no White man can stop us. Generation X should have proved that. Any Black generation can pull through anything, as long as they don't do anything stupid.
As some of you know, Project 2025 already happened to me back in 2006 after a PIP, at the hands of another racist, after I had worked with a bunch of 13s and 14s. In her eyes, the only thing I did wrong was stand up for what's right. I had to survive the lost of that job all alone, after everybody pretty much thought I was through, except the very few that were close to me in my family. As far as the last day on that job, which came outta nowhere, nobody really cared what was about to happen to me, and this included Black people. So there was no director crying, or a stream of people coming down an aisle hugging and weeping.
FF to today, only 20 percent of FERS retirees have a retirement income higher than mine, basically because my retirement years continued to accumulate after 2006. And if I had all those internet side hustles in 2006, like they have today, it wouldn't be funny
But at some point in time, once you lived long enough to survive on, and can still have a little fun, it's not as much about money as you think, and you don't need a whole lot of it.Edit: Anybody thinking to themselves, "What that White professor said wasn't racist", remember, this was just the first day. A racist prank he played on the last day of class, using his 14 year-old son to pull it off, was so messed up that I reported him. Wow, the things that go on at some of these PWIs that people don't hear about.
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Imagine being told that you have to move from DC to Fort Collins, Colorado, brehs...
They're shutting down all the DC buildings as well...smdh
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