Federal furloughs in FY'14

[Anonymous]

What is anyone hearing from their agencies at this point? Husbands says 15 days is looking likely at FBI. My agency has been mum on the subject thus far. Anyone else with information?

[Anonymous]

Rumbles of more furloughs at LOC but no details yet.

[Anonymous]

I hope, if they do them, they implement them much better. DODs were so ridiculously stupidly done, it was embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Is there really any way for an agency to know at this point? I think it's safe to assume many agencies will have furloughs, but it's impossible to predict how this will play out exactly.

[Anonymous]

Seems pretty clear that we're going to have a CR for a while. I'd think most agencies should know by now what a continuation of FY'13 funding levels would mean for their personnel budgets.

[Anonymous]

DoD PP here....I think they'd be smart to plan for them do that they aren't caught off guard implementing them badly. It's also smart for employees to assume and save money.

Which is awesome when you're expecting your first child!

There won't be a budget until people vote out a large number of members of the house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems pretty clear that we're going to have a CR for a while. I'd think most agencies should know by now what a continuation of FY'13 funding levels would mean for their personnel budgets.

I don't think that's true because the FY 13 CR levels don't include sequestration and the pots of money subject to sequestration will be calculated slightly different this year, which means no one knows how much will be sequestered until the funds are appropriated and CBO calculates the excess over the sequestration cap. It's the absolute stupidest way to run the govt that anyone could come up with.

[Anonymous]

DOI here. We're told that furloughs are almost certain. We spent all of our extra carryover funds last year and delayed so many necessary things that will come due in FY 14 (delayed contracts, didn't buy paper or hire employees for employees that we lost).

I work in budget and we haven't been given any numbers for FY14 yet. If we get a long CR (or maybe PASS A BUDGET) it would enable us to plan better, but until then we fly on the seat of our pants.

We planned on having a baby next year and we've postponed that and aren't willing to move to a bigger home/mortgage until we know more about our job stability. Both of us are feds.

[Anonymous]

PP, I don't recommend holding off on the baby. It's never going to be a good time. Seriously. It's not worth the possible stress of fertility. Obviously, a home/mortgage change is different - you don't necessarily need bigger for a baby. We live in a 1br w/ den downtown. We're expecting and even with the furlough, it wasn't worth eaiting a year and being older. It doesn't always happen the first or second (or even 5th) month of trying to conceive.
Just a thought!

Also, yes this is THE most ridiculous way to run a government, but Congress won't do anything about it. They won't pass a budget, which is really their one job, and then they'll blame the President. And we feds will be hurt because of it (and many, many others). So sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, I don't recommend holding off on the baby. It's never going to be a good time. Seriously. It's not worth the possible stress of fertility. Obviously, a home/mortgage change is different - you don't necessarily need bigger for a baby. We live in a 1br w/ den downtown. We're expecting and even with the furlough, it wasn't worth eaiting a year and being older. It doesn't always happen the first or second (or even 5th) month of trying to conceive.
Just a thought!

Also, yes this is THE most ridiculous way to run a government, but Congress won't do anything about it. They won't pass a budget, which is really their one job, and then they'll blame the President. And we feds will be hurt because of it (and many, many others). So sad.

+1

[Anonymous]

There is no way anyone can know for sure now but every indication is that '14 will be at least as bad as '13, maybe worse in that what could be covered with furloughs this year may lead to RIFs (in parts of the Agency I'm familiar with) next year or in '15. But no one knows or can know right now, have to wait for final numbers...

[Anonymous]

I hope there are no RIFs. I know it would be awful for other gov't employees, but from a purely selfish standpoint, I would be happy with some furlough days. I requested part time status and was denied, so it would actually work for me.

[Anonymous]

PP here wanting the baby... we're currently in a 1 bedroom condo. So yes we need the bigger mortgage to have the baby and also considering my federal daycare is $1600 a month, we aren't willing to take that on unless we know our jobs are more secure. We've been told that RIFs will come if a budget isn't passed.

[Anonymous]

We have been told no furloughs and were given a list of other things they are doing to avoid furloughs. It's all BS, though. This place is a sinking sink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way anyone can know for sure now but every indication is that '14 will be at least as bad as '13, maybe worse in that what could be covered with furloughs this year may lead to RIFs (in parts of the Agency I'm familiar with) next year or in '15. But no one knows or can know right now, have to wait for final numbers...

exactly. And Congress is incapable of giving us final numbers. It's disgraceful.