Personnel file

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you get this all to your personal computer?

Sorry didn’t see the previous responses.

[Anonymous]

bumping this. Everyone needs to download your entire personnel file ASAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you get this all to your personal computer?

what is the problem with mailing it to yourself from your work email? (Honest question)

If I can't do that I am just going to print it, bring it home, and then scan it.

[Anonymous]

I printed the entire folder. In the past I only printed SF-50s but who knows what I’ll need or what an employment lawyer will need so I printed the entire folder, all of my PMAPs, and LES statements for the last year. Didn’t take too long. Less than an hour.

[Anonymous]

I can only access materials from my current agency. Materials from my prior agency are not there. Is that typical?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get this all to your personal computer?

what is the problem with mailing it to yourself from your work email? (Honest question)

If I can't do that I am just going to print it, bring it home, and then scan it.

Every agency, and perhaps job series, has different levels of security set up on their GFEs. I am able to forward emails and utilize USBs on mine but I know people at other agencies that are not. Their laptops are set up in a way that blocks access. Download the files to the desktop and upload them to USAJobs, if that’s the case. You can print them from a personal device later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can only access materials from my current agency. Materials from my prior agency are not there. Is that typical?

I think your current agency has to request them. They are in my file, by there is also a doc showing my agency requesting them when I onboarded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can only access materials from my current agency. Materials from my prior agency are not there. Is that typical?

Yes.

All agencies don’t use the same platforms which is why you should print your file before you leave. You’d have to reach out to their HR/ AO for a copy now and gl with that in the midst of all this chaos.

[Anonymous]

I went onto my agency’s eOPF site yesterday with my work laptop at home. Downloaded my eOPF (56 pages) to my laptop’s desktop. You need your PIV card to log in to eOPF.

I then emailed it the 56 page file from Outlook to my personal Gmail. I initially got an auto message from my agency that I was trying to email PII and it would not go through. But if I had a legit business reason for emailing PII, I would need to use my agency’s encryption service. I did that, got a link to the encryption site on my person gmail, then downloaded the zip file from the encryption site to my personal iPhone.

You have the right to have your personnel file for your own records stored outside your agency.

[Anonymous]

If you clueless drones had done it all along year by year including saving the job description you applied for (that you saw at home because you hadn't been hired yet) this would not be so insurmountable.
Hint: if you ever get another job, save everything as you go. If you resign or are fired they cut off computer access immediately.

[Anonymous]

There's no need to insult people. We're all on the same team here.

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure why people are trying to download personnel files now if they’ve taken over OPM systems and can see activities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you clueless drones had done it all along year by year including saving the job description you applied for (that you saw at home because you hadn't been hired yet) this would not be so insurmountable.
Hint: if you ever get another job, save everything as you go. If you resign or are fired they cut off computer access immediately.

Yeah, shame on us clueless drones for not foreseeing that a new administration would immediately break laws about personnel actions and privacy and data security. The government hitherto has not been like the private sector in multiple ways, including this. You are supposed to get 30 days notice before a suspension or removal. (Not a probationary termination or placement on paid leave, however; but placement on paid leave is not usually so draconian, with all access cut off. You usually still have access to your email and systems, you just are not supposed to do work.)

[Anonymous]

PP here:
The eOPF website is not intuitive. It took me about 10 minutes of clicking around to figure out how to download my files into a single PDF. The instructions on the website are terrible.

Further, I didn’t have access to eOPF and had to request user name & password. My agency didn’t grant access until 2nd or 3rd pay period and I forgot to go back to create an account until yesterday. My agency also buries the eOPF website link within a few embedded pages in our HR intranet site. This isn’t something you can just google.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you get this all to your personal computer?

what is the problem with mailing it to yourself from your work email? (Honest question)

If I can't do that I am just going to print it, bring it home, and then scan it.

Every agency, and perhaps job series, has different levels of security set up on their GFEs. I am able to forward emails and utilize USBs on mine but I know people at other agencies that are not. Their laptops are set up in a way that blocks access. Download the files to the desktop and upload them to USAJobs, if that’s the case. You can print them from a personal device later.

Oh perfect! Thank you!