DOJ: please allow telework instead of signing bonuses

[Anonymous]

employees/workers preference not boss/admin's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:maybe a dumb question but does telework/WFH preference indicate party affiliation in current environment?

You can safely assume almost every employee everywhere wants some level of ability to TW regardless of party affiliation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im at DOJ and the only bar for hiring attorneys is whether you are willing to defend this lawless administration. Most principled attorneys have left. They’re not trying to attract talent. You are right however that the lower pay should be compensated by more flexibility like telework

This is BS.

--I'm at DOJ. Doubt the PP is.

[Anonymous]

I agree ten thousand percent that telework is the answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:maybe a dumb question but does telework/WFH preference indicate party affiliation in current environment?

You can safely assume almost every employee everywhere wants some level of ability to TW regardless of party affiliation.

Right. Who wouldn’t?

[Anonymous]

I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on tv), but if you had your heart set on DOJ, wouldn't this be a good time to try to get in with competition being down? If you are able to stick it out for two more years, you are in for as long as you want?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:maybe a dumb question but does telework/WFH preference indicate party affiliation in current environment?

You can safely assume almost every employee everywhere wants some level of ability to TW regardless of party affiliation.

Right. Who wouldn’t?

i don't know, voters of current admin maybe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on tv), but if you had your heart set on DOJ, wouldn't this be a good time to try to get in with competition being down? If you are able to stick it out for two more years, you are in for as long as you want?

Yes. There will be low morale, and given the reduction in force there will probably be less mentoring than you might normally get, which is a problem. But yes, it’s still a good time to get in the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is 100% correct in principle, though I think it would take more than two days per week to move the needle because people can get that in the private sector. I think it would need to be at least four days per week of telework. The more DOJ allows telework, the more they'll be able to attract qualified candidates. People may disagree with this president, but if you give them a well-paying job with lots of flexibility, they will look past policy disagreements.

I think they should promise 100% telework, and then revoke it, leaving people with no choice because I imagine that when sanity returns no one will hire someone who willing participated in the fascism. I have great sympathy for the people who were already at DOJ when this started, but anyone who would willingly take a job with the current DOJ is an evil person, and that is what they deserve.

[Anonymous]

You can take the job and then sabotage the administration from within with crappy legal work. The people in charge are too dumb to realize you are submitting stupid stuff on purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can take the job and then sabotage the administration from within with crappy legal work. The people in charge are too dumb to realize you are submitting stupid stuff on purpose.

This generally doesn't work. While a lot of people have left there are still competent career supervisors that will be reviewing your work. You can't just turn in a sh*t product and have everyone look the other way. Also, to the extent you appear in court there is a possibility that the judge sanctions you or refers you for discipline to the bar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on tv), but if you had your heart set on DOJ, wouldn't this be a good time to try to get in with competition being down? If you are able to stick it out for two more years, you are in for as long as you want?

The problem is that DOJ actually has pretty high standards so yes, competition is lower but that still doesn’t mean that they’ll take people who don’t have good qualifications. Of course those people with good qualifications have options even in a bad job market so very few want to work in a job with zero flexibility and long hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on tv), but if you had your heart set on DOJ, wouldn't this be a good time to try to get in with competition being down? If you are able to stick it out for two more years, you are in for as long as you want?

People just blindly assume a Democrat will win in 2028, ignoring U.S. history before 2016 (12 years of Reagan/Bush, then 8 of Clinton, 8 of Bush, 8 of Obama). No one should join DOJ now who isn’t comfortable working for President Vance in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on tv), but if you had your heart set on DOJ, wouldn't this be a good time to try to get in with competition being down? If you are able to stick it out for two more years, you are in for as long as you want?

People just blindly assume a Democrat will win in 2028, ignoring U.S. history before 2016 (12 years of Reagan/Bush, then 8 of Clinton, 8 of Bush, 8 of Obama). No one should join DOJ now who isn’t comfortable working for President Vance in the future.

+1. It will actually be a blessing in disguise if Democrats do terribly in the midterms, because the best hope for Democrats to do well in 2028 is having Republicans in control of everything until then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Telework is not worth sacrificing my law license.

+1

I cannot sign off on baseless claims.