Did your agency address "fork in the road"?

[Anonymous]

I am curious to hear if anyone got feedback from the agency. We were told to stand by for more info. (DoD)

[Anonymous]

Nope, we aren't bothering our leadership or supervisors who are trying to figure out how to implement vague/nonsensical orders. The union gave enough of a description of how bad a deal it would be to take it.

[Anonymous]

They acknowledged an email was sent and that they also received it

[Anonymous]

They haven’t said anything officially. My supervisor just said they can’t advise either way about what to do.

[Anonymous]

Yes. All hands call with management and union reps in my corner of SSA today. Our acting commissioner found out about this plan when she got her email. Zero advance notice given to agencies, which is unheard of.

They cannot tell us what’s best for our individual situation. But the acting commissioner (currently SES) in an email, plus my component management and the union all strongly advised we “hit pause,” and wait until there is more guidance and information so that we can make the best decision possible given out individually situation. They told us there were many outstanding questions, and they were trying to get answers in time for us to me an informed decision. They reminded us that we had until 2/6, so there was no need to feel forced into a decision this week.

I work for good people though.

[Anonymous]

Nothing. What is there for them to say?

[Anonymous]

nothing. but we also don't have any guidance about RTO.

[Anonymous]

My office supervisor acknowledged it but said they have no information besides the opm memo since the email originated outside of our agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All hands call with management and union reps in my corner of SSA today. Our acting commissioner found out about this plan when she got her email. Zero advance notice given to agencies, which is unheard of.

They cannot tell us what’s best for our individual situation. But the acting commissioner (currently SES) in an email, plus my component management and the union all strongly advised we “hit pause,” and wait until there is more guidance and information so that we can make the best decision possible given out individually situation. They told us there were many outstanding questions, and they were trying to get answers in time for us to me an informed decision. They reminded us that we had until 2/6, so there was no need to feel forced into a decision this week.

I work for good people though.

It is absolutely batshit that OPM could go and undermine agencies' abilities to do their Congressionally-mandated tasks. How the eff can an cabinet member be ok with having this little power? How can Congress be ok with abdicating this power? (I know, I know, they are all spineless cucks.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All hands call with management and union reps in my corner of SSA today. Our acting commissioner found out about this plan when she got her email. Zero advance notice given to agencies, which is unheard of.

They cannot tell us what’s best for our individual situation. But the acting commissioner (currently SES) in an email, plus my component management and the union all strongly advised we “hit pause,” and wait until there is more guidance and information so that we can make the best decision possible given out individually situation. They told us there were many outstanding questions, and they were trying to get answers in time for us to me an informed decision. They reminded us that we had until 2/6, so there was no need to feel forced into a decision this week.

I work for good people though.

It is absolutely batshit that OPM could go and undermine agencies' abilities to do their Congressionally-mandated tasks. How the eff can a cabinet member be ok with having this little power? How can Congress be ok with abdicating this power? (I know, I know, they are all spineless cucks.)

It's not even clear the people sending these emails work for OPM or any other government agency! They just have access to an email server that can generate emails from opm.gov. It's totally insane.

[Anonymous]

DOS Acting M acknowledged the email, directed folks to the OPM website and said they are looking into it. Very clear the Secretary got no warning before it was sent.

[Anonymous]

I know our acting head did not get prior warning. Department leaders don't understand how it could be implemented legally. They're not going to contradict Trump, so nothing is going to go out officially, but word is being passed down to be extremely cautious when considering whether or not to accept it.

It appears everyone figured out very quickly that only people close to retirement might plausibly benefit from it. But there's a lot of concern that this could cause people to separate from government through a resignation, rather than retirement, which would screw things up for them.

[Anonymous]

Nothing from hhs

[Anonymous]

My manager sent out the frequently asked questions from the OMB memo. There was no mention or discussion amongst my co workers

[Anonymous]

Nothing (NIH)