Please vent your frustrations with your federal job here

[Anonymous]

Federal job holders only, please. And don't be afraid to criticize it even if you lean left politically.

List everything that stinks - the building, the workers, management, policies, IT, you name it.

[Anonymous]

Cue violins...

[Anonymous]

Not enough snow days?

[Anonymous]

Really, the only benefit is not having to work hard.

[Anonymous]

Pointless mandatory online training, slovenly coworkers, pedantic managers, no technology or parking subsidies, no bonuses, people wanting to pass the buck instead of adding value, embarrassing lack of power to make any meaningful change, no water coolers or company-paid meals, lack of assistance with professional development or leadership training, 87 layers of bureaucracy involved in ever action, derision from the people you serve.

[Anonymous]

People who make more than you who come in late, take long lunches, leave early, surf the net all
Day and leave early. Meanwhile I work my ass of because I care (work in fed law enforcement)

Crappy technology

General lack of resources

Otherwise I really do love my job! Wish other co-workers would care.

[Anonymous]

Political appointees who know next to nothing about the substantive work of the office they're appointed to lead, and less than nothing about how to manage a Federal agency.

[Anonymous]

Congress has cut our budget by 20% since 2010.

[Anonymous]

Having to do the work of lazy, incompetent colleagues who've been there since the dawn of time and who earn 2-3 times what I do.

How hard it is to fire said lazy, incompetent colleagues (if I even had the power to do so).

Budget cuts, so that we've been unable to replace the excellent coworkers we've lost (for various reasons).

[Anonymous]

Fellow Feds...a question for you. I've been fed for 7 years, hold M.S. My position was limited to a certain grade level so I transferred and took a different job at a different office/the same agency. I was promised the change of series first and then the change of my promotion potential. HR took a long time to change my series and the office is also taking too long (started working there 2 years ago) to change my promotion potential. So I am stuck at a very low grade . My series goes up to 13 but that doesn't apply to me. Is this even legal? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hmm, I work with Type A workaholics as a Fed. I work 45-50 hrs a week and feel guilty leaving "early" even though I work 9-10 hr days.

I would say the red tape. New processes are constantly implemented to "streamline the process" that really jsut adds another layer of approvals to a process that already takes too long as it is.

Otherwise, I love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm, I work with Type A workaholics as a Fed. I work 45-50 hrs a week and feel guilty leaving "early" even though I work 9-10 hr days.

I would say the red tape. New processes are constantly implemented to "streamline the process" that really jsut adds another layer of approvals to a process that already takes too long as it is.

Otherwise, I love it.

DOJ?

[Anonymous]

45-50 hours and no weekend emailing, etc?

[Anonymous]

I feel like I landed on fly paper.

[Anonymous]

Working 60-65 hours a week because my management and the agency leadership refuse to figure out how to surge positions to respond to growing workload. We are still staffed like it's 2001.