Federal Hiring Boom?

[Anonymous]

Can Forkers come back after our seven month vacation? We’re still employees.

[Anonymous]

My agency lost 15%, and we are trying to hire previous employees that didn’t take the DRP to avoid training them too much.

Who would want to come back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can Forkers come back after our seven month vacation? We’re still employees.

Do you think your ex coworkers are going to welcome you back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Word on the street in my agency is that when the freeze is lifted, the chosen agencies (DHS, DOD, VA, etc.) will start hiring - and it will be a boom. Has anyone heard this?

I don’t see how the VA is going to hire. They have been destroying themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who in their right mind would want to work for the Federal government today? I spent a whopping 2 months at FEMA and it was the most chaotic, stressful waste of time. I will never work or even consider working for the federal government ever again and I don’t see why anyone would see the appeal, especially today.

Exactly. I doubt I would want to hire anyone willing to work in the government right now.

Not all agencies are the same. NIH was a great place to work until the idiot POTUS came into office. Perfect, no, but still good. If the current admin of idiots hadn't started messing with things. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can Forkers come back after our seven month vacation? We’re still employees.

Do you think your ex coworkers are going to welcome you back?

Agencies won't do this because of the optics but I would have zero worries about what ex-coworkers think. Most of us would be glad to have competent staff back.

Of course, everyone I know who took it is either earning more or retired, so the uptake will not be large.

[Anonymous]

Of course there will be a boom, in about 5 years, so we can get back to where we were when this mess started.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can Forkers come back after our seven month vacation? We’re still employees.

Do you think your ex coworkers are going to welcome you back?

Agencies won't do this because of the optics but I would have zero worries about what ex-coworkers think. Most of us would be glad to have competent staff back.

Of course, everyone I know who took it is either earning more or retired, so the uptake will not be large.

Perhaps. I, for one, would be furious that these folks were hired back at their old salaries/rank after a 7 month vacation. Most folks that left my agency did so in conjunction with a VERA. Some of these people were around for far too long and their departures are welcome (plus there are many more who should hang it up), and a shot to actually move some things forward.

[Anonymous]

What about the recent job report that showed +70k gov hiring? Where?