Fed Hiring Freeze

[Anonymous]

Are they also freezing career ladder promotions? Or do they mean only promotions between agencies/jobs are frozen?

[Anonymous]

Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

Why would you do this? Not to pile on, but EVERYONE knew this was going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about the people who EOD'd Monday morning before the Memorandum was signed?

If someone started Monday 1/23 their EOD date was likely Sunday 1/22. That is the start of the new pp.

[Anonymous]

Well, that is bad news. Who is the poster on the fedsoup forum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about the people who EOD'd Monday morning before the Memorandum was signed?

Found this on another forum:

The wording "12 noon Jan 22nd" made my heart sink as I started my new job on Jan 23rd. However the Pay period started Jan 22nd so my SF-50 form shows Jan 22nd so I am thankfully good. My heart goes out to those of you being affected by this I can somewhat sympathize as I thought I was in the same boat for about an hour this morning but thankfully I got clarification. I hope this is cleared up very quickly for those of you who's livelihood is dependent on it.

I think this would be the case for anyone that started this past Monday.

[Anonymous]

DOD is strong, given their national security and military missions. Has anyone heard from DOJ

[Anonymous]

I have a TO for a position with DHS. This morning my HR contact said everything is on hold pending further guidance.

Has anyone heard anything different from DHS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

Why would you do this? Not to pile on, but EVERYONE knew this was going to happen.

So mean, unnecessary, unhelpful, and judgemental. Talk about adding salt to the wound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

Why would you do this? Not to pile on, but EVERYONE knew this was going to happen.

To answer your question: because I was told on December 30th it will take a week for all paper work to be ready blah blah, on the 6th I got a start date and it did not occur to me that a freeze would mean I could not enter on duty. Specifically hiring official said that if hiring is in the works a freeze won't block it. Now obviously what he said isn't binding and hence I am asking if anyone here heard anything.

So far I have seen reports that DHS is good to go for now.
IRS sent emails telling those with start date not to report.

And to comment on your comment, if you have nothing to say, no one needs your input.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

Why would you do this? Not to pile on, but EVERYONE knew this was going to happen.

To answer your question: because I was told on December 30th it will take a week for all paper work to be ready blah blah, on the 6th I got a start date and it did not occur to me that a freeze would mean I could not enter on duty. Specifically hiring official said that if hiring is in the works a freeze won't block it. Now obviously what he said isn't binding and hence I am asking if anyone here heard anything.

So far I have seen reports that DHS is good to go for now.
IRS sent emails telling those with start date not to report.

And to comment on your comment, if you have nothing to say, no one needs your input.

NP. It didn't occur to you that a freeze might mean you couldn't start? This was all over the news as a very distinct possibility. I am surprised that your HR was so cavalier since even our HR (which is usually glacially slow and generally worthless) was doing everything they could to get people in ahead of time. But at the end of the day, s/he is not the one out of the job and can go back to being generally incompetent. You really should have taken more ownership of your own situation and done even a modicum of research which would have revealed you should have gotten on board already.

And, so you don't accuse me of giving no news, if you were at my agency, the assumption is that you would be SOL as they are not likely bringing most people in, but it is not set in stone at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

Why would you do this? Not to pile on, but EVERYONE knew this was going to happen.

To answer your question: because I was told on December 30th it will take a week for all paper work to be ready blah blah, on the 6th I got a start date and it did not occur to me that a freeze would mean I could not enter on duty. Specifically hiring official said that if hiring is in the works a freeze won't block it. Now obviously what he said isn't binding and hence I am asking if anyone here heard anything.

So far I have seen reports that DHS is good to go for now.
IRS sent emails telling those with start date not to report.

And to comment on your comment, if you have nothing to say, no one needs your input.

NP. It didn't occur to you that a freeze might mean you couldn't start? This was all over the news as a very distinct possibility. I am surprised that your HR was so cavalier since even our HR (which is usually glacially slow and generally worthless) was doing everything they could to get people in ahead of time. But at the end of the day, s/he is not the one out of the job and can go back to being generally incompetent. You really should have taken more ownership of your own situation and done even a modicum of research which would have revealed you should have gotten on board already.

And, so you don't accuse me of giving no news, if you were at my agency, the assumption is that you would be SOL as they are not likely bringing most people in, but it is not set in stone at this point.

I'm the same PP who took up for this poster above. Why the need to gang up on this person today? Is it really that hard for responders to show compassion and humility? Or just think these thoughts without posting them? If there is a lesson to be learned here, the poster has certainly learned it without your mean-spirited lectures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with the Board of Veterans Appeals heard anything? Was supposed to start on the 6th and despite various attempts got no information. I, too, gave my job 2 week notice and will be out of a job on the 1st.

Why would you do this? Not to pile on, but EVERYONE knew this was going to happen.

To answer your question: because I was told on December 30th it will take a week for all paper work to be ready blah blah, on the 6th I got a start date and it did not occur to me that a freeze would mean I could not enter on duty. Specifically hiring official said that if hiring is in the works a freeze won't block it. Now obviously what he said isn't binding and hence I am asking if anyone here heard anything.

So far I have seen reports that DHS is good to go for now.
IRS sent emails telling those with start date not to report.

And to comment on your comment, if you have nothing to say, no one needs your input.

NP. It didn't occur to you that a freeze might mean you couldn't start? This was all over the news as a very distinct possibility. I am surprised that your HR was so cavalier since even our HR (which is usually glacially slow and generally worthless) was doing everything they could to get people in ahead of time. But at the end of the day, s/he is not the one out of the job and can go back to being generally incompetent. You really should have taken more ownership of your own situation and done even a modicum of research which would have revealed you should have gotten on board already.

And, so you don't accuse me of giving no news, if you were at my agency, the assumption is that you would be SOL as they are not likely bringing most people in, but it is not set in stone at this point.

My question was specific to Board of Veteran Appeals, if that's not your department, I do not care for your "news". As aforementioned, some departments already sent emails telling people with EODs that they're good to go, others notified that they can't start, and some were told they do not have an answer yet.

If you're bored at work, play candy crush, no need to comment on posts just for the sake of commenting.

[Anonymous]

OMB guidance says it is fine as long as your start date is by Feb. 22.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMB guidance says it is fine as long as your start date is by Feb. 22.

Office of Management and Budget?