State Dept - are RIFs coming on Friday?
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Anonymous
You have a lot of people smiling and happy to lay people off? I was laid off in the private sector before becoming a fed. What's described here is not what people have dealt with for decades. In my experience, management doesn't enjoy laying people off. You're kind of a dick. |
Anonymous
DP. They won’t have trouble finding jobs, companies are going to snap these people right up. Foreign owned companies in many cases. The government is not the private sector, your comparison is vapid and shows how ignorant you are about what the government does to make sure the private sector can do what it does. This is really a tragedy. |
Anonymous
See that’s here you wrong. Most democrats do get incensed about cruel layoffs, ie company is profitable but lets goose the numbers by cutting staff. Or mismanagement that led to company failure. Executives always come out fine but workers suffer. |
Anonymous
Feds traded lower comp for job security. Now that security is gone, hiring will be much harder and attract candidates with less skills. Maybe that’s fine, they are cutting lots of govt functions, but everyone is looking for an exit and no Gen z will ever make a career in the Feds |
Anonymous
So let’s talk about how public employee unions have imposed conditions that don’t allow firings to be made on job performance, so indiscriminate RIFs are the only way they can be accomplished. Public sector unions once again protect the mediocre at the expense of the competent. |
Anonymous
You think the management at State wouldn’t prefer to discharge the lowest performing employees first? Ask the union why they can’t do that. |
Anonymous
R's hold the Majority in Congress, it shouldn't be that hard to rewrite statute. They were in such a hurry to fire *anyone*, but they're basically shooting themselves in the foot here by not doing this the right way. I really think everyone would love to see poor performers let go rather than some haphazard, poorly executed process. |
Anonymous
How are you so sure of this? |
Anonymous
Agree. We live outside the DC area and no one around us is aware this is happening. It’s barely mentioned in the news cycle. DH is a fed and people are surprised to learn that he still might lose his job. With private sector layoffs going on too, it’s not going to get special attention. |
Anonymous
Ex-FSO here. I get what you're saying. And overseas feds can be whiny when they come back for a tour in "expensive" DC. But why does it have to be a race to the bottom? Because most non feds don't work so many evenings and weekends. They don't have to be worldwide available for their jobs. Their spouses aren't putting careers on hold. Their kids aren't saying goodbye to their friends every few years. They aren't contending with stressors and conditions that lead to higher rates of divorce and in some cases, death. And they didn't spend years cultivating arcane language and technical skills that are necessary and beneficial for the American people no matter the political administration, but not too useful in other jobs. If bright young people are willing to forego a normal, non fed career path do all of this instead, why not give them a little more job security than the average American worker? |
Anonymous
+1 if they even know what the state department is |
Anonymous
Why? “not too useful in other jobs” is right |
Anonymous
Show me the poll where 90% of People voted for this? |
Anonymous
| Those happiest about this are our adversaries. |
Anonymous
| Feds are flooding the job market. Good luck to anyone looking for a new job! |