“Safe” Federal positions
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Anonymous
Our contracts are written to allow government to stop work on any contract employee with 48 hour notice. That is pretty flexible. In practice, the stop work happens instantly. The 48 hours is to allow contractor to notify their employee during the weekend if there were a late Friday afternoon notice from the government. Maybe your agency needs to get better people writing their contracts? |
Anonymous
| As someone with knowledge of what a contractor cost in my office, we pay the company a GS 12-6 ($118,304) salary for an executive assistant. They in turn pay the EA ($87k). |
Anonymous
Let me add this is an EA for an SES employee. |
Anonymous
Some people just refuse to see certain things. "It's them. It doesn't affect us. It won't affect us." "That's absurd - of course that's not what they're doing." 1930's Germany. Sinclair Lewis: "It Can't Happen Here." |
Anonymous
It would be a far more interesting showdown if there were a qualified person leading DoD. |
Anonymous
Such calmness about it all....sounds suspiciously like a DOGE-spy troll on here. "He is going to have to follow the process?" He hasn't so far, but you claim that with all seriousness and genuine trust??!! hmmm. |
Anonymous
Anything constituents feel directly impacted and complain enough about gets retracted. It's part of this administration's "throw the pan of spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks" approach to "governance." |
Anonymous
Quite the opposite. DOGE wants people to freak out and quit. Taking a deep breath and letting this play out, including through lawsuits, is exactly what DOGE does NOT want civil servants to do. |
Anonymous
Yes, they want them to quit. But they want them to take their dubious offer - so they publish FAQs to reassure employees it's for real. They also want to be able to tell their supporters how tough they were and how many people they eliminated, how they reduced government by unprecedented and unimaginable proportions. |
Anonymous
Agree on all that. Which is why feds should respond by taking a deep breath and letting it play out, not freaking out and taking the super sketchy DOGE offer or quitting. I find it humous that PP accused me of being a DOGE Spy becuase I said people should take a deep breath and not freak out. Freaking out is exactly what DOGE wants people to do. This Ezra Klein piece has been making to rounds and is relevant to the discussion - don't believe them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s |
Anonymous
Well that's your experience. My experience is that I had an underperforming contractor and he really let things fall, didn't respond. We spoke to his management, detailed the issues and asked for him to be removed from the contract. They did more than that- they walked him out that day and fired him. Yikes. As a fed manager I've had bad employees that skid by for decades by doing the bare minimum. When they go on PIPs, they raise their performance slightly. Then revert to status quo after. It's so frustrating. |
Anonymous
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In my view, the real issue is not regarding the "buyout" offer, but is whether or not current federal government employees should be sending out resumes & job applications to private sector employers while waiting for things to play out.
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Anonymous
Why shouldn’t they? |
Anonymous
DP, but if I want to stay in my current job, you have to weigh jumping early to a suboptimal role out of fear, versus out of necessity (when your job is actually being eliminated) |
Anonymous
I get it. I’m in the same boat as a fed contractor. |