Can we expect waves of baby boomers to start retiring in the next few years?

Anonymous wrote:I've been hearing that some ridiculous percentage of the federal work force is eligible to retire in the next 5 years for the 13 years I've been working for the federal government. Hasn't happened. Eligible to retire doesn't mean they can afford to or want to.

Even when people do retire, my agency is on a 3:1 replacement hiring scheme right now due to budget cuts and expected furloughs. So a wave of retirements doesn't mean a corresponding wave of new hires.

My agency is working on the same system. We get around this by getting a detail.

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12/04/2013 23:21

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Anonymous wrote:they should adjust the minimum retirement age with life expectancy make the minimum retirement age 68

It's headed in that direction already.

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12/05/2013 20:26

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Anonymous wrote:I retired at age 58 with a Fed pension.

Probably should mention that I was replaced with a part time worker at a much lower grade.

Not much to brag about then... just another Fed ripping off taxpayers. Getting full time salary while only working part time.

I think you're rather confused about what a pension is. Are you jealous that your 401k is rises and sinks with a market overwhelmed by speculators and some Wall Street fatcat periodically takes a percentage of your hard-earned retirement money for basically doing nothing? Maybe that's the ripoff you should be upset about.

The PP was referring to the fact this BB Fed was only being as productive and valuable as a part time junior grade employee. If he had been private industry, he would have been sacked long ago for being such dead weight

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12/05/2013 22:07

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Anonymous wrote:Slightly OT, but is anyone else having to deal with dementia in the workplace with some of the older workers? There's only so much reasonable accommodation we can provide (and trust me, this has been vetted extensively through our lawyers), but some of them are just going to have to be termed.

Several gaga Fed judges in my building . Very difficult to ease them out.

I'm a federal contractor. I work with a guy who just turned 70 and he's a little loopy. It's really quite sad. He had some major health problems last year, and he's such a workaholic that he came back before the doctor cleared him. He was frail and our federal clients were telling us behind his back to babysit him because everyone was afraid he would keel over. I was so annoyed that none of the clients had the backbone to tell him to go home. He gets flustered, anxious and rants at times. Not a good vibe in the office.