Will Fed Workers be much better quality in the 2030s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My college professor friends tell me students’ reading, writing, and analysis skills are poorer than ever. So, no, OP, I don’t think so.

Yes, and their math skills are middle school level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think federal employment will increasingly be the domain of younger, cheaper workers who gain some experience and then move into industry. I'm fine with that.

How will that work at places like FDA and NIH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think federal employment will increasingly be the domain of younger, cheaper workers who gain some experience and then move into industry. I'm fine with that.

How will that work at places like FDA and NIH?

Pipeline, to big Pharma

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a lot of fat with some of the fed agencies and their support contractors. Our work is actually more efficient after some of the dead weight is gone.

Name the agency, your occupation, and the contracts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think federal employment will increasingly be the domain of younger, cheaper workers who gain some experience and then move into industry. I'm fine with that.

How will that work at places like FDA and NIH?

People are retiring at NIH after 40 years still working on the cure for cancer and aids. Perhaps a younger person could find it quicker.

[Anonymous]

I do think we need to give other people a chance in the field of research and management because the current employees are just too comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The one common theme since time immemorial is that old geezers are always complaining that the next generation is going to hell.

And young people think they know it all until they are responsible for getting stuff done. Dunning-Kruger over and over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[Anonymous]

it will be full of young idiots like OP. god help us.

[Anonymous]

What does "AI skilled" even mean? Do you mean the high level software engineers that work at tech companies? Because government doesn't pay enough for CMU, UMD, etc. computer science grads to want to work there. If you mean just use AI, that's not that hard.

[Anonymous]

I can’t even. This whole question is insane.

[Anonymous]

could the current trajectory be turned around to better retain and attract new federal employee talent? yes but they would need to substantially increase pay. there is a lot of reasons federal employee morale is not great right now. but one big reason existed before this administration: there is a lot of compression in the federal employee pay scale + inflation is bad right now so the same salary as before buys less. current administration came in and took away a lot of the benefits like stability and telework flexibilities that were helping to keep people happily in jobs despite the relatively low pay.

[Anonymous]

Lololol. I’ll be 50 in 2030. Also, the random brain drain with no time to transfer knowledge or work we’ve experienced in the last 11 months will take years to build back. Decades? I’m acting as an executive and feel wholly unqualified to do so. I’m like a kid at the adult table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a lot of fat with some of the fed agencies and their support contractors. Our work is actually more efficient after some of the dead weight is gone.

Name the agency, your occupation, and the contracts.

Defense agency, program manager and all kinds of contracts. Tons of people are around that should not be there and noone can ask them to leave. DRP did let some of them to get retirement but a few are still around and they openly say that it is easy work and they would just hang around for a few more years. We have to give them 1-2 support contractors since they can't even do basic work under their PD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:could the current trajectory be turned around to better retain and attract new federal employee talent? yes but they would need to substantially increase pay. there is a lot of reasons federal employee morale is not great right now. but one big reason existed before this administration: there is a lot of compression in the federal employee pay scale + inflation is bad right now so the same salary as before buys less. current administration came in and took away a lot of the benefits like stability and telework flexibilities that were helping to keep people happily in jobs despite the relatively low pay.

Compensation for feds is a sore topic for everyone. None of the presidents care enough to do anything about it and I don't expect any significant change in pay scale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think federal employment will increasingly be the domain of younger, cheaper workers who gain some experience and then move into industry. I'm fine with that.

Why would that happen, when for decades it has been the opposite?
Historically people train in private sector and then take their experience to government for lifestyle or passion reasons - there's very little entry level hiring because government doesn't spend money to train you. So why would they start spending that money?