A lot of my coworkers are taking the fork offer

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure some people will, but only people who were already leaving or on the block. And I think those people should be very cautious.

This is me. I was planning on resigning in March anyway. Will they pay me the full 8 months? Doubtful. But then I’m no worse off. If they do then it’s a bonus.

I would never do this if I was going to retire in 6 weeks. You risk messing up your retirement paperwork just to get a few weeks off? No way.

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Musk doing some ghostwriting on dcum

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None of mine are and are going to stay now to spite these jerks.

Don’t mess up your retirement. It’s not guaranteed if you take this scam of an offer.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m taking it. No way I’m returning to the office. Working remotely has allowed me to work two jobs. I’ll never work in an office again.

You should be fired for working two jobs. Good riddance.

Yes, stealing someone else’s opportunity to earn a wage is cruel.

As a fed, you're not allowed to moonlight.

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Anonymous wrote:How many people posted on this site that if they had to RTO, they were quitting? Why wouldn’t these people take the offer if they were planning on quitting instead of going back anyway?

never underestimate the power of federal workers' spite, amanda!

We are resilient AF.

Honestly, the biggest takeaway I hope people get from this is that federal employees are gritty and committed—despite the narrative. We do a lot with a little, put up with enormous loads of BS, and handle ourselves pretty well.

As a non fed who in the past has questioned the productivity of feds (after seeing some bad apples), I have a fresh perspective and am rooting for you all! Stuck it to them.

Thank you for this.

Part of me is really feeling the "we can do anything with Spite." But the biggest part of me is sad and scared for the people we serve.

We're the plumbing and electrical wiring of this country's house. It's often hidden, and a little unglamorous, and when you have to think about us, it's usually because something went wrong. Of course you are going to be mad -- the promise was that we had a well-run country that would be your springboard for entrepreneurship, raising a family, doing hard years of training and work to move up the economic ladder; heck -- even just have a picnic at a state park without contaminated water.

You were supposed to be able to buy food without cutting into meat and finding abscesses. You were supposed to be able to count on a trip to see family without being killed in a plane crash.

All of that is work. Up to 2 million people are involved in that work, one way or the other. You know how there's an arsehole in your family, say, one for every 20 or 30 in the extended family, if you're lucky? We've got them, too. Sorry.

But you know how your own house falls apart without maintenance? This country does, too.

It's NOT heroic. It's NOT that we are fabulous exciting saints. We're people who fill in spreadsheets, and make small decisions, and drive to places to do inspections, and order parts, and all of it. And if we aren't there, the place is likely to fall down.

There are ways to make changes, improve efficiency, all of it. But this yahoo is setting the place on fire.



I hate this.

I am going to keep doing my job. I hope it all works out. I don't know what else to do.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker is taking the fork. He was to have retired years ago but the COVID happened and was allowed to work remotely. So, he delayed his retirement. Now that he's been ordered to RTO, he is going to take the offer. Feds in this situation would be the first to take the deal.

And risk retirement? No. Take your annual leave while you request remote accommodations. There isn’t a lawyer, Union rep or even fellow coworker who would suggest you take this deal.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m taking it. No way I’m returning to the office. Working remotely has allowed me to work two jobs. I’ll never work in an office again.

Trying way too hard, so it doesn’t end up funny.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker is taking the fork. He was to have retired years ago but the COVID happened and was allowed to work remotely. So, he delayed his retirement. Now that he's been ordered to RTO, he is going to take the offer. Feds in this situation would be the first to take the deal.

And risk retirement? No. Take your annual leave while you request remote accommodations. There isn’t a lawyer, Union rep or even fellow coworker who would suggest you take this deal.

This. Even if I was about to quit, I wouldn't take this deal. Word is they've cleared this stuff with nobody.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m taking it. No way I’m returning to the office. Working remotely has allowed me to work two jobs. I’ll never work in an office again.

So I do think DCUM is being monitored. This is so sus.

Jeff, what do the fingerprints reveal about this PP? Could be a plant or just garden gnome troll?

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Anonymous wrote:DHS apparently can't take the offer.

I work for CISA which is under DHS, and I received an email saying that this offer does not apply to CISA. I would love to take the buyout and go back to the private sector and make 400K while collecting 8 months of pay from CISA.

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Anonymous wrote:DHS apparently can't take the offer.

I work for CISA which is under DHS, and I received an email saying that this offer does not apply to CISA. I would love to take the buyout and go back to the private sector and make 400K while collecting 8 months of pay from CISA.

They won’t actually pay out the salary anyway. Don’t fear missing out.

They need DHS when the next step of their plan starts. Luckily, they will have pissed of the majority of the federal government into a revolution by then.

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Except that the government is funded only until March. You're not going to see that money!



This Fork thing is actually a great test to see who's incompetent. Those who believe the email aren't Federal Employee material to start with, so it's a good thing they resign, and find out later they're not getting their money.

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Whatever, I'm going to be over here, doing my work and doing it well, just like I have for the past decade. I'm proud of my public service. I'm proud of the people I have helped. I'm proud of the awards I've won for my service.

That shouldn't be a controversial statement that I, a public servant, intend to continue to go above and beyond for the American public, but here we are.

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Anonymous wrote:A coworker is taking the fork. He was to have retired years ago but the COVID happened and was allowed to work remotely. So, he delayed his retirement. Now that he's been ordered to RTO, he is going to take the offer. Feds in this situation would be the first to take the deal.

And risk retirement? No. Take your annual leave while you request remote accommodations. There isn’t a lawyer, Union rep or even fellow coworker who would suggest you take this deal.

These people are morons. They must have months of sick leave (my DH has been a fed for 17 years and has 250 days). This leave never gets paid out, so I would start taking that ASAP and wait to get to retirement. Same thing as the buyout and given the crisis going on, I’m pretty sure any doctor would support anxiety at a level that supports taking sick leave…

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Anonymous wrote:DHS apparently can't take the offer.

I work for CISA which is under DHS, and I received an email saying that this offer does not apply to CISA. I would love to take the buyout and go back to the private sector and make 400K while collecting 8 months of pay from CISA.

Curious if you can make 2x the money in private, why stay in gov? Most cyber jobs even in private have pretty good work life balance, it’s not like it biglaw